What's the difference between skirt and skit?

Skirt


Definition:

  • (n.) The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
  • (n.) A loose edging to any part of a dress.
  • (n.) Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
  • (n.) A petticoat.
  • (n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a skirt; to surround.
  • (v. t.) To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
  • (v. t.) To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
  • (2) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
  • (3) All skirted lots of wool evaluated in this study had improved processing characteristics for all processing traits evaluated.
  • (4) She loves the work of Adjanass ( adjanass-creations.com ), a striking young woman from Togo who takes cloth from her native country (a variation on batik learned by African soldiers fighting France's Indochina wars) and makes dresses, skirts and tops that look Indonesian, but use Africa's vibrant colours.
  • (5) He skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery but referred to the sheer scale of the sacrifice, pointing out that, among more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, only about 50 so-called "thankful parishes" saw all their soldiers return.
  • (6) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
  • (7) Kate Waters, the chief strategy officer at Now and a member of the Women in Advertising and Communications London group, said: “I’ve had comments about what I wear, that it might be appropriate to wear a shorter skirt to a meeting, for instance.” A 55-year-old account director, who used to work for Saatchi & Saatchi, said while it was mostly a good company to work for, “it was taken for granted that female execs were there to look pretty and distract clients”.
  • (8) And in the process, the food industry is skirting food additive regulations.
  • (9) "I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long.
  • (10) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
  • (11) Banwari Lal Singhal said private schools allowing students to wear skirts explained increased sexual harassment locally.
  • (12) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
  • (13) I found myself skirting the wood’s perimeter, a no-go zone of the past for us, and came next to a gravel-pocked face mined by rabbits with one of the burrows crowned with the skull of an ancestor.
  • (14) We’re back to those flappers, with their jobs and their knee-length skirts and their dangerous opinions about politics, or the girls of the 1960s destroying the traditional family by wantonly taking the pill.
  • (15) In that respect, … skirt size as a proxy for waist circumference is easily remembered over time.” The researchers estimate that the five-year absolute risk of postmenopausal breast cancer rises from one in 61 to one in 51 with each increase in skirt size every 10 years.
  • (16) These days the modern older woman may go for the half-gomas, she explains - a short jacket and matching full-length skirt which is lighter to wear.
  • (17) Movies spanning the quality spectrum from Risky Business to Annie Hall to Roman Holiday all famously affected people’s actual wardrobes (respectively, Ray-Bans, men’s tailoring on women and full skirts and head scarves.)
  • (18) Of these 200 patients, 65% believed physicians should wear a white coat, 27% believed physicians should not wear tennis shoes, 52% believed physicians should not wear blue jeans, 37% believed male physicians should wear neckties, and 34% believed female physicians should wear dresses or skirts.
  • (19) He believed that policy and principle without power were simply not enough to deliver the better life that he fought for on behalf of his constituents for almost 50 years.” Corbyn skirted over their differences and said he would miss Kaufman’s “constant friendship”.
  • (20) I wanted a better life.” Dressed for the festival in a smart black skirt and a high-necked blouse adorned with a cameo necklace, she is enjoying the lavish spectacle.

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 .