(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.
Skive
Definition:
(n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
(v. t.) To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).
Example Sentences:
(1) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
(2) The play opens with a scene where nosey neighbours spot someone on sickness benefit in the street and assume they must be skiving instead of working.
(3) Perhaps the culprit was skiving off the wedding of a despised but vengeful cousin when he posted.
(4) Are we salt of the earth yeomen, or skiving thickos milking the system, or drains on the already stretched infrastructure?
(5) Are workers seen as a burden, a cost, people who would rather skive and shirk responsibilities, and who have to be supervised rigorously at all times?
(6) The medial heel skive technique involves selectively removing small amounts of the medial portion of the plantar heel of the positive cast of the foot to create a unique varus wedging effect within the heel cup of the foot orthosis.
(7) I was doing a lot of skiving and was put on report for a while.
(8) From the start of his tenure, Wilshaw had a habit of making comments that shocked people: accusing teachers of skiving off at 3pm , saying “bad parents” should be fined.
(9) When my mother dropped by her boss's flat to persuade her to come to a rally that had been organised in downtown Reykjavik, she was assuaging her guilt from skiving off work by baking furiously.
(10) The leading edge of the bar must be properly skived and tapered to provide an even surface with the forward part of the soles of the shoes.
(11) There was anger at Duncan Smith’s mantra that he was ending the “something for nothing culture”, and the subtext that people who tried to claim sickness benefits were skiving.
(12) The Kaastrup Plant near Skive was opened in spring 1986.
(13) Sure, it was holiday-time: daily matches, skiving from work, the cities aglitter with flags and foreigners.
(14) Christopher Millross says: "I'll be skiving but only whilst still in the office as our boss is a power-crazed inadequacy-riddled fool who can't bare to think he's not in control for ninety minutes."
(15) 10.45am: So, two questions: 1) Are any office-based readers either a) being allowed to getting out of work to watch the England (or indeed USA) match, or b) planning to skive off this afternoon?
(16) Amino acid analysis of the alpha-globins of "Skive" Danish Mus musculus musculus (Hbaw3) establishes that its hemoglobin is comprised of about one-third alpha chain 2 as expected plus a greater amount of a unique alpha chain that has not been described previously.
(17) A monologue lets us in on his thoughts – about the joy of skiving school and chasing the sun round the sky.
(18) They skive off to the loo for a sneaky fag, and return grinning.