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Kip vs. Skip — What's the Difference?

Kip vs. Skip — What's the Difference?

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Kip

See Table at currency.

Skip

Move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce
She began to skip down the path

Kip

The untanned hide of a small or young animal, such as a calf.

Skip

Jump over a rope which is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet, as a game or for exercise
Training was centred on running and skipping

Kip

A set or bundle of such hides.
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Skip

Omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following)
The video manual allows the viewer to skip sections he's not interested in

Kip

A rooming house.

Skip

Fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss
Try not to skip breakfast
I wanted to skip my English lesson to visit my mother

Kip

A place to sleep; a bed.

Skip

Throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water
They skipped stones across the creek

Kip

Sleep.

Skip

Act as skip of (a side)
They lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson

Kip

A unit of weight equal to 1,000 pounds (455 kilograms).

Skip

A light, bouncing step; a skipping movement
He moved with a strange, dancing skip

Kip

A maneuver in gymnastics, martial arts, and similar sports in which a person moves from lying on the back directly to a standing position by thrusting the legs upward and pushing off with hands placed palms-down near the ears. Also called kip-up.

Skip

An act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.

Kip

To sleep.

Skip

A person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.

Kip

The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.

Skip

A large transportable open-topped container for building and other refuse
I've salvaged a carpet from a skip

Kip

A bundle or set of such hides.

Skip

A cage or bucket in which men or materials are lowered and raised in mines and quarries.

Kip

(obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.

Skip

The captain or director of a side at bowls or curling.

Kip

The leather made from such hide; kip leather.

Skip

To move by hopping on one foot and then the other.

Kip

A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.

Skip

To leap lightly about.

Kip

Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
I’m just going for my afternoon kip.

Skip

To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet
Threw the stone so it skipped over the water.

Kip

A very untidy house or room.

Skip

To pass from point to point, omitting or disregarding what intervenes
Skipped through the list hurriedly.
Skipping over the dull passages in the novel.

Kip

A brothel.

Skip

To be promoted in school beyond the next regular class or grade.

Kip

A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.

Skip

(Informal) To leave hastily; abscond
Skipped out of town.

Kip

A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.

Skip

To misfire. Used of an engine.

Kip

A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.

Skip

To leap or jump lightly over
Skip rope.

Kip

The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.

Skip

To pass over without mentioning; omit
Skipped the minor details of the story.

Kip

A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.

Skip

To miss or omit as one in a series
My heart skipped a beat.

Kip

(gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.

Skip

To cause to bounce lightly over a surface; skim.

Kip

(Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

Skip

To be promoted beyond (the next grade or level).

Kip

To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.

Skip

(Informal) To leave hastily
The fugitive skipped town.

Kip

To snatch; take up hastily; filch

Skip

(Informal) To fail to attend
We skipped science class again.

Kip

To hold or keep (together)

Skip

A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.

Kip

To conduct oneself; act

Skip

An act of passing over something; an omission.

Kip

To perform the kip maneuver.

Skip

A control mechanism on an audio or video player that interrupts the playing of a recording and advances or reverses to the beginning of the nearest chapter, track, or other division.

Kip

The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.

Skip

A container for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials.

Kip

A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

Skip

(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

Kip

A method or feat of raising the body when hanging or swinging by the arms, as for the purpose of mounting upon the horizontal bar. The legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.

Skip

(intransitive) To leap about lightly.

Kip

Sleep;
Roused him from his kip

Skip

(intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
The rock will skip across the pond.

Kip

The basic unit of money in Laos

Skip

(transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

Kip

A gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an errect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright

Skip

(transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
My heart will skip a beat.
I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.

Kip

Be asleep

Skip

Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

Skip

To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
To skip the country
A customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill

Skip

To leap lightly over.
To skip the rope

Skip

To jump rope.
The girls were skipping in the playground.

Skip

To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.

Skip

(printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.

Skip

To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).

Skip

A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

Skip

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

Skip

(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

Skip

A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

Skip

(radio) skywave propagation

Skip

A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. see also skep.

Skip

(mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.

Skip

(steelmaking) A skip car.

Skip

A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.

Skip

A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.

Skip

(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.

Skip

A beehive.

Skip

Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.

Skip

(specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.

Skip

(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

Skip

(bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.

Skip

The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

Skip

An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

Skip

A college servant.

Skip

A basket. See Skep.

Skip

A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

Skip

An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.

Skip

A charge of sirup in the pans.

Skip

A beehive; a skep.

Skip

A light leap or bound.

Skip

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

Skip

A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

Skip

To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; - commonly implying a sportive spirit.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.

Skip

Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; - often followed by over.

Skip

To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.

Skip

To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson.
They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters.

Skip

To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.

Skip

A gait in which steps and hops alternate

Skip

A mistake resulting from neglect

Skip

Bypass;
He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible

Skip

Intentionally fail to attend;
Cut class

Skip

Jump lightly

Skip

Leave suddenly;
She persuaded him to decamp
Skip town

Skip

Bound off one point after another

Skip

Cause to skip over a surface;
Skip a stone across the pond

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