What's the difference between skip and skit?

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.

Skit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cast reflections on; to asperse.
  • (n.) A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.
  • (n.) A wanton girl; a light wench.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
  • (2) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
  • (3) We have developed a device tentatively named Multi Skit (Mu), a simple allergen test device, in order to conduct the skin test safely, accurately and conveniently.
  • (4) He has hosted SNL three times alongside Wiig, co-creating their skits each time.
  • (5) His live shows begin with a skit mocking the pipsqueak talents of Jimi Hendrix: what price expanding the vocabulary of the rock guitar in a way unseen before or since when compared to a man from Penarth singing Yakety Yak?
  • (6) Contrary to the popular image of the undecided voter as being ignorant and unengaged – a recent Saturday Night Live skit captured the stereotype brilliantly – Flack is a political science graduate who is following the race closely.
  • (7) He is a maverick, a teenager – and dabbles in enough off-beat skits to fill that token jazz category.
  • (8) She said he was a cross between Fred Astaire and Jack Black, a song-and-dance man who can do all sorts of skits.
  • (9) New diagnostic tools as penile Doppler ultrasonography, PBI estimation, NPT measurement, invasive SKIT's, neurophysiological methods, selective phalloarteriography, artificial erection and dynamic cavernosography are introduced and are the guide to therapeutic approach.
  • (10) The bizarre skit features Broughton, in wrestling-promoter braggadoccio mode, telling the camera : “I’m cleverer than you, I’m better looking than you, I’ve got more charisma than all of you could ever dream of, and of course the important thing, I’ve got more money than any of you could possibly imagine.” Broughton told the Hartlepool Mail that he had been quoted “out of context”.
  • (11) In the skit, Ted mentions to Mark Wahlberg that if "you want to work in this town" you have to be Jewish.
  • (12) I wanna be in that .” After an internship on one low-budget film, Lievsay was hired to edit United Artists movies, as well as the prerecorded skits for Saturday Night Live.
  • (13) He later tried to justify his angry reaction, saying: "This is the one person I know, so I can go and let out everything that I feel about every single bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumour in barbershop, everything that people feel is OK to treat celebrities like zoo animals or act like what they're saying is not serious or their life is not serious or their dreams are not serious."
  • (14) It’s like an SNL skit: ‘Look at me – I’m so relatable.’ Can 'Obamadale' become 'Clintondale'?
  • (15) In 2006, a skit upset Hezbollah and shortly afterwards, Shia Lebanese attacked Christians in east Beirut in what was thought to be payback.
  • (16) Eventually they switched to sketches, including a nude balloon dance and a Shakespearean skit that Hardee had written in Ford open prison.
  • (17) She posts songs, vlogs and comedy skits with her Scottish sidekick, the Unnecessary Otter.
  • (18) The show broke its rating records in 2008 when vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared alongside comedian and writer Tina Fey, who played her in a skit.
  • (19) Yes, Fey did crack a joke about Fallon petting Trump’s hair; it was the best line of the skit.
  • (20) There's a bit of everything, from Hindi punk rap to the self-referential Boom Skit about her time in America ("Brown girl, turn your shit down… Let you into Super Bowl, you try to steal Madonna's crown"), to the gorgeous lushness of Sexodus, a collaboration with The Weeknd .