skip

«skip» in Mova's judaism dictionary: to move along with little hops and jumps — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb, noun (skip, skips, skipped, skipping)

meaning for a pupil

1) To skip is to move along with little hops and jumps. tree →

2) To skip rope (UK: skipping) is to jump over a turning rope. tree →

3) To skip something is to leave it out or not do it: skip breakfast. tree →

4) To skip count is to count by 2s, 5s or 10s. tree →

5) A skip (UK) is a big metal container for rubbish. tree →

6) To skip a place can mean to leave it quickly and run away from it. tree →

sense in the lessons

Interpretation: The Psalm says the mountains skipped like rams when Israel left Egypt, as if all creation rejoiced. Tradition reads this as nature trembling before God at the Exodus. In the primary lessons: Maths: skip counting (2, 4, 6 ...) is repeated addition, the start of times tables; days or pages skipped are left out (subtract). Playground: skipping rope, skipping games and rhymes. Health: do not skip breakfast. Phrases: skip a turn, skip a class.

examples

• The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep. (Writings PSA.114.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep? (Writings PSA.114.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• Hark! my beloved! behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. (Writings SNG.2.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• Skip count by 5s to 50. tree →
• She skipped rope 80 times. tree →
• He skipped 2 days of practice. tree →
• How many pages did she read if she skipped 10? tree →
• The children skipped happily down the lane. tree →
• You skip a turn if you land on this square. tree →
• Don't skip breakfast before a test. tree →
• The builders filled the skip with old bricks. tree →
• You better go long an' git yo' kyarpet-sack and skip de town. tree →

note

Doubles the p: skipped, skipping. Skip counting is repeated addition (multiplication); things skipped are left out (subtract). Trap: «skip every other number» means count by 2s. Trap: skipping class is not allowed.

In the corpora

• He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.
• The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like young sheep.
• Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; ye hills, like young sheep?
• Hark! my beloved! behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
• Homework is practice; copying it skips the learning and shows up in tests.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «skip» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.