📖 S — The English dictionary · page 52

skateboarder — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who rides a skateboard, a short board on four small wheels, often doing tricks.↗ Example: The skateboarder jumped over the low wall.↗ · Skateboarders practise in the park after school.↗ · Wear a helmet if you want to be a skateboarder.↗ · The youngest skateboarder at the Olympics was only 12.↗ · A skateboarder zoomed past us down the hill.↗ · The skateboarder fell, got up and tried the trick again.↗

skater — Everyday, meaning 1: A skater is a person who moves on skates: ice skates, roller skates or inline skates.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who rides a skateboard (a skateboarder).↗ Example: The skater spun round on the ice.↗ · Skaters must wear helmets at the skate park.↗ · She is a fast speed skater.↗ · The skaters held hands as they went round the rink.↗ · My brother is a skater and practises tricks every day.↗ · The ice was too thin for skaters.↗

skedaddle — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, playful) To skedaddle is to run away quickly, often because you are frightened or caught.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) To leave a place in a hurry.↗ Example: When the farmer shouted, the boys skedaddled over the fence.↗ · «Skedaddle!↗ Your dinner's getting cold,» said Mum.↗ · The mice skedaddled when the cat came in.↗ · We'd better skedaddle before the rain starts.↗ · The weasels skedaddled when Badger burst into the hall.↗ · The thief skedaddled with the cake.↗

skeletal — Everyday, meaning 1: Skeletal means to do with the skeleton, the frame of bones inside a body: the skeletal system.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Skeletal can describe a person or animal that is very, very thin, so their bones show.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Skeletal can mean only the most basic parts, with little else: a skeletal plan, a skeletal staff.↗ Example: The skeletal system protects our heart and lungs.↗ · Skeletal muscles help us run and jump.↗ · Scientists found the skeletal remains of a dinosaur.↗ · A skeletal hand reached out of the grave in the spooky story.↗ · The rescued dog was skeletal and needed food.↗ · Over the holidays the school had only a skeletal staff.↗ · Our first plan was just a skeletal outline.↗

skeleton — Everyday, meaning 1: The frame of bones that supports and protects the body of a human or an animal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A model or picture of these bones, often used in science lessons or at Halloween.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The main frame or structure of something, like a building or a story plan.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Skeleton staff / crew: the smallest number of people needed to keep something running.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A skeleton in the cupboard/closet: an embarrassing secret.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A skeleton can also mean a person who is extremely thin.↗ Example: The skeleton protects our heart and brain.↗ · An adult human skeleton has 206 bones.↗ · Insects have a skeleton on the outside called an exoskeleton.↗ · We saw a dinosaur skeleton at the museum.↗ · Your skeleton and muscles work together so you can move.↗ · We made a plan — a skeleton of our story — before writing.↗ · She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.↗ · Over the holidays the office runs with a skeleton staff.↗ · Till thy skin shrivels up and thou art a skeleton!↗

sketch — Everyday, meaning 1: A quick drawing that shows the main shapes without much detail.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A short, funny scene in a comedy show or school play.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A short description of something with only the main points.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To draw quickly, or to describe in a few words.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (slang, US) Sketchy means dodgy, unsafe or suspicious.↗ Example: I made a quick sketch of the tree before painting it.↗ · Sketch the leaf and label its parts.↗ · Our group acted a funny sketch about a lost dog.↗ · She sketched out her plan for the treehouse.↗ · Keep your sketchbook in your bag.↗ · That website looks sketchy, so don't type your password.↗ · The teacher gave a short sketch of the Romans' life.↗ · It was all a picture, a great splendid picture, which the artist had painted from a sketch.↗

sketchbook — Everyday, meaning 1: A book of plain, often thick, paper for drawing sketches and quick pictures.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A collection of a person's sketches or quick notes.↗ Example: I drew our cat in my sketchbook.↗ · Bring your sketchbooks to the art lesson.↗ · Her sketchbook is full of drawings of birds.↗ · Leonardo da Vinci filled his notebooks with sketches.↗ · The teacher asked us to glue leaf rubbings into our sketchbooks.↗ · I take a small sketchbook on holiday.↗

sketchy — Everyday, meaning 1: Not complete or detailed; giving only the main points.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Drawn or done quickly and roughly, like a sketch.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, slang) Seeming a bit dodgy, untrustworthy or unsafe.↗ Example: My memory of the trip is a bit sketchy.↗ · The report was too sketchy; add more detail.↗ · Her drawing was sketchy, just a few quick lines.↗ · (slang) That website looks sketchy — don't click it.↗ · (slang) The guy selling cheap phones seemed sketchy.↗ · We only have sketchy information about the storm.↗ · (slang) The bridge looked really sketchy, so we didn't cross it.↗

ski — Everyday, meaning 1: A ski is one of a pair of long narrow flat boards fixed to boots for sliding over snow.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To ski means to move over snow on skis.↗ Example: We went skiing in the mountains.↗ · I fell over on my skis.↗ · She skis faster than her dad.↗ · The ski lift took us to the top.↗ · Always wear a helmet when you ski.↗ · He learned to water ski on the lake.↗ · Put your skis on the rack.↗

skid — Everyday, meaning 1: To skid is to slide sideways or forwards out of control, especially on ice, water or a smooth surface.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A skid is a sliding movement like that.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (often skids) Skids are strips of wood or metal under a heavy load or helicopter, used to slide or rest it on.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) On the skids means going badly, heading for failure.↗ Example: The car skidded on the icy road.↗ · I skidded on the wet floor and nearly fell.↗ · The bike went into a skid on the gravel.↗ · The cyclist skidded to a halt at the red light.↗ · Tyres with deep treads help stop skids.↗ · The helicopter landed on its metal skids.↗ · (informal) His football team has been on the skids all season.↗

skier — Everyday, meaning 1: A skier is a person who moves over snow on skis, for sport or for fun.↗ Example: The skier raced down the mountain.↗ · She is a fast skier.↗ · Skiers should wear helmets.↗ · We watched the skiers from the chairlift.↗ · My little brother is a beginner skier.↗ · A cross-country skier glides over flat snow.↗

skilful — Everyday, meaning 1: Skilful means very good at doing something because of practice and ability.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something done in a skilful way is done with great skill.↗ Example: She is a skilful footballer who can dribble past anyone.↗ · The skilful potter made a perfect bowl.↗ · It took skilful hands to fix the old clock.↗ · He was a skilful liar, but he got caught in the end.↗ · The skilful pilot landed the plane in the storm.↗ · With practice you can become a skilful juggler.↗ · She made a skilful drawing of a horse.↗ · The game was set then, and her play was so skilful that Art was hard put to counter her moves.↗ · to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, (Torah EXO.31.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, (Torah EXO.35.32, JPS 1917)↗ · and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship.↗ (Torah EXO.35.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And now I have sent a skilful man, endued with understanding, even Huram my master craftsman, (Writings 2CH.2.12, JPS 1917)↗ · For God is the King of all the earth; sing ye praises in a skilful song.↗ (Writings PSA.47.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song; he was master in the song, because he was skilful.↗ (Writings 1CH.15.22, JPS 1917)↗

skilfully — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that shows skill and good ability; cleverly and well.↗ Example: She skilfully dribbled past three defenders.↗ · The surgeon skilfully repaired the broken bone.↗ · The baker skilfully decorated the cake.↗ · He skilfully changed the subject when we asked about the broken window.↗ · The story is skilfully written, with a twist at the end.↗ · The pilot skilfully landed the plane in the wind.↗ · And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod.↗ (Torah EXO.29.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod.↗ (Torah EXO.39.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.↗ (Torah EXO.28.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Sing unto Him a new song; play skilfully amid shouts of joy.↗ (Writings PSA.33.3, JPS 1917)↗

skill — Everyday, meaning 1: A skill is something you can do well because you have learned and practised it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Skill is the ability to do something well.↗ Example: Reading is an important skill.↗ · She showed great skill on the football pitch.↗ · Swimming is a life skill everyone should learn.↗ · Practice will improve your skills.↗ · It takes skill to juggle three balls.↗ · We learned first aid skills at school.↗ · Chess needs patience and skill.↗ · He showed so much skill that his grandfather was de-light-ed.↗ · and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that went out to battle, and all the congregation; (Torah NUM.31.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly unto all the Levites that were well skilled in the service of the LORD.↗ (Writings 2CH.30.22, JPS 1917)↗ · The roundings of thy thighs are like the links of a chain, the work of the hands of a skilled workman.↗ (Writings SNG.7.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.↗ (Writings DAN.1.17, JPS 1917)↗

skillful — Everyday, meaning 1: Skillful means very good at doing something with the hands or the mind, because you have practised or have a gift for it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) Skillful can describe a clever person who can find a way out of trouble.↗ Example: She is a skillful painter.↗ · The skillful fisher caught more fish than anyone.↗ · You must be skillful to thread a needle this small.↗ · Mum is skillful at baking bread.↗

skillfully — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that shows skill; doing a task well, with care and talent.↗ Example: She cut the rope skillfully.↗ · The chef chopped the onions skillfully.↗ · He steered the boat skillfully between the rocks.↗ · The girl skillfully mended the torn kite.↗

skim — Everyday, meaning 1: To skim a text is to read it quickly to get the main idea, without reading every word.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To skim is to move quickly just over the top of something, like a bird skimming the water.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To skim a liquid is to take off the thin layer floating on top, like cream from milk.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To skim a flat stone is to throw it so it bounces across water.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Skim can also describe milk that has had its fat taken out.↗ Example: Skim the page first to see what it is about.↗ · The swallow skimmed low over the pond.↗ · Dad skimmed the fat off the soup.↗ · Can you skim a stone so it bounces five times?↗ · I only skimmed the article, so I missed the details.↗ · The boat skimmed across the waves.↗ · Skim the chapter, then read the questions.↗ · ‘A can of fresh milk, then,’ said the students; ‘but it must not be skim.’↗

skimmed — Everyday, meaning 1: Skimmed is the past of skim: read quickly, moved just over the top of something, or took the top layer off.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, skimmed milk is milk with most of the fat (cream) taken off.↗ Example: She skimmed the book and then chose it from the library.↗ · The stone skimmed across the water four times.↗ · A gull skimmed the waves looking for fish.↗ · I like skimmed milk on my cereal.↗ · He skimmed the menu and ordered pizza.↗ · Mum skimmed the foam off the jam.↗ · The plane skimmed the tops of the trees.↗ · A few bats skimmed his nose now and again and scared him half to death.↗

skimmer — Everyday, meaning 1: A flat spoon or ladle with holes, used to lift things off the top of a liquid, like foam from soup.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A seabird that flies low and skims fish from the water's surface with its long lower beak.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A person or thing that skims, such as a stone that skips over water or a reader who reads quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A device that removes oil, leaves or dirt from the surface of water, for example in a pool or after an oil spill.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (crime) A hidden device criminals fit to cash machines to steal card details.↗ Example: Grandma used a skimmer to take the foam off the jam.↗ · The pool skimmer catches leaves before they sink.↗ · A black skimmer flew low over the waves.↗ · Ships used skimmers to clean up the oil spill.↗ · Mum checks the cash machine for skimmers.↗ · That flat stone is a great skimmer — it bounced five times!↗ · Catskin told the cook how much she would like to go to the ball, the cook called her "a dirty slut," and broke the skimmer across her head.↗