(v. i.) To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.
(v. i.) Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(2) The ECB has decamped to Slovakia, Bratislava for today's meeting.
(3) Morsi had decamped from Itahadiya palace, the traditional seat of the president, which is now surrounded by makeshift concrete walls in anticipation of Sunday's protests.
(4) Charles's years in Italy had had their disappointments, notably the end of his marriage to his wife, Peggy, who at one stage decamped with a bathing attendant.
(5) Originally the article stated that "detectives also conducted a search in the tabloid newsroom while staff were asked to decamp to a nearby bar."
(6) The tension ratcheted up when the team decamped to Paris before the show, especially when American Vogue editor Anna Wintour swung by to cast her eye over the work.
(7) Speaking from the constituency office where they had decamped for the day of the local and European election polls, the rebel said: "We are a bit unsure about how to deal with the problem of receiving hoax emails.
(8) On Saturday, City fans decamped to Wembley to watch their team surprisingly lose to Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup final.
(9) But the government eventually decamped first to Valencia, then to Barcelona.
(10) Once Yohan Cabaye decamped to Paris Saint-Germain in 2014 Pardew gave up any pretence of adopting a passing style but the downside was that Newcastle, as now, could never be said to be in command of matches.
(11) John Darr, the sheriff of Muscogee County in Columbus, Georgia, has created the new facility in an attempt to break the cycle of recidivism by providing them with specialist services to help them deal with the problems they carry with them when they decamp.
(12) On Saturday nights, the Musgraves clan would decamp to local oprys around Texas, where Kacey would perform traditional, crowd-pleasing material.
(13) After 2010 the Brown government decamped to the opposition benches, its thinking and personnel largely unchanged, with a result that was entirely predictable.
(14) The original stated that "the seat's Muslim immigrant community had decamped from Labour en masse to Galloway's fundamentalist call for an immediate British troop withdrawal...".
(15) During the spring fair ( Feria de Abril , 30 April-7 May), half the city decamps to the casetas of the Recinto Ferial to parade on horseback, drink sherry with lemonade, and dance sevillanas .
(16) With the latter decamping to the north-west, Manchester became the scene of a prolonged final act in which Richard Bevan, the chief executive of the LMA, mediated with Newcastle's board and Keegan's lawyers were briefed for battle.
(17) He signed up to an optimistic delivery date of 10 months and, because his writing cell wasn't quite ascetic enough, decamped to Berlin to write in complete isolation.
(18) In a gilded room at the Grosvenor House hotel, Uefa's Park Lane base for its Champions League final decampment to London, Michel Platini is extolling England's cherished role in football history.
(19) There is a rebranding of the ready-to-wear and the studio is decamping from Paris to LA, where Slimane now lives.
(20) At night the tens of thousands decamped within the jungle are impossible to locate – the CAR is regarded as the least light-polluted country in the world , its darkness due to its lack of development.
Skip
Definition:
(n.) A basket. See Skep.
(n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
(n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
(n.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
(n.) A beehive; a skep.
(v. i.) To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
(v. i.) Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
(v. t.) To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
(v. t.) To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
(v. t.) To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.
(n.) A light leap or bound.
(n.) The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
(n.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
Example Sentences:
(1) This change led to an exon-skipping event resulting in a frame shift and generation of a stop codon.
(2) Moreover, the homozygous mutation appears to cause skipping of exon 6 in the mutant E1 alpha transcript.
(3) Moreover, CT attenuation values confirmed US findings in the study of typical "skip areas", by demonstrating normal density--which suggests that CT can characterize normal tissue in atypical "skip areas".
(4) Drogba hit the side-netting with Chelsea's best chance after Salomon Kalou had escaped Antolín Alcaraz to skip to the goal-line, before the visitors finally opened up Wigan with a classy move to take the lead just before the hour mark.
(5) Recent reports indicate that growing points in mammalian DNA simply skip past UV-induced lesions, leaving gaps in newly made DNA that are subsequently filled in by de novo synthesis.
(6) The patterns of relapse and long-term survival were studied in relation to the skip lesions, and these patterns were compared with those of 224 patients who had Stage-II osteosarcoma but no skip lesion.
(7) Here, we show that Ultrabithorax and even-skipped homeo domain proteins (UBX and EVE) of Drosophila melanogaster exert active and opposite effects on in vitro transcription when bound to a common site upstream of a core promoter.
(8) The alternative splicing mechanisms involve exon skipping as well as internal donor splice site usage.
(9) In Trial 2, the skip-a-day-fed birds were water restricted 4 h either every day, only on feed days, or had free access to water.
(10) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(11) And had he not escaped and then skipped from continent to continent, Biggs would never have ended up on so many front pages and leading so many bulletins.
(12) * * * Skip Lievsay’s original plan was architecture.
(13) Ogura, now 78, survived because her father, convinced something bad would happen, told her to skip school on the day of the attack.
(14) The 69-kDa ttk protein has been shown to bind multiple sites within important regulatory elements of the pair-rule genes even-skipped (eve) and fushi tarazu (ftz), and it has been suggested that this protein may function as a repressor of ftz transcription.
(15) The new method includes the use of small Teflon pledgets to cover the conduction system at the crossing sites of suture line, and so that stitches can be placed on the pledgets to skip the conduction system.
(16) However, we know that a minimum qualifying time of 15 minutes for compensation has been called for, and this is something that the Department for Transport is considering.” Southern added that while some trains do skip stops to make up time, it is rare and that “if this is done, there is nothing to gain performance measure-wise as a train that skips stops is declared as a PPM failure – even if it does reach its destination on time”.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Adam Peaty wins Great Britain’s first gold of Rio 2016 Andy Murray skipped through his opening round with a straight-sets (6-3, 6-2) win over Serbia’s Viktor Troicki .
(18) Tony Goldstone , of the MRC Clinical Science Centre at Imperial College London, scanned the brains of people who skipped meals and found mechanisms at work that could help explain the conundrum.
(19) In the early days of MP3 players such as the Diamond Rio , you could tell that they were transformative because the ones using solid-state storage weren't prone to skipping, unlike the CD Walkmans they were trying to disrupt.
(20) 6.44pm BST 85 min: Musa, who has been very bright since coming on, skips and skedaddles past a couple of City players (including, inevitably, Garcia) and heads into the box.