head vs skip

head

noun
  • A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle. 

  • A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs. 

  • The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects. 

  • The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked. 

  • A headdress; a covering for the head. 

  • The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor. 

  • The uppermost part of a valley. 

  • The antlers of a deer. 

  • Mental or emotional aptitude or skill. 

  • A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication. 

  • The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data. 

  • The headstock of a guitar. 

  • The leafy top part of a tree. 

  • The top edge of a sail. 

  • A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum. 

  • The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint. 

  • The toilet of a ship. 

  • An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal. 

  • A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium. 

  • Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. 

  • The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide. 

  • A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound. 

  • Headway; progress. 

  • Mind; one's own thoughts. 

  • Topic; subject. 

  • The end of an abscess where pus collects. 

  • The topmost, foremost, or leading part. 

  • The glans penis. 

  • The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball. 

  • Deposits near the top of a geological succession. 

  • The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it. 

  • The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages. 

  • A headmaster or headmistress. 

  • Denouement; crisis. 

  • The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel. 

  • A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop. 

  • The end cap of a cask or other barrel. 

  • A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head. 

  • Leader; chief; mastermind. 

  • Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex. 

  • The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs. 

  • An individual person. 

  • The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. 

  • The bow of a vessel. 

  • A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member. 

  • The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer. 

  • The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point. 

  • The population of game. 

  • The principal melody or theme of a piece. 

  • A single animal. 

  • The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front. 

  • A headland. 

  • More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight. 

verb
  • To be in command of. (See also head up.) 

  • To come at the beginning or front of; to commence. 

  • To form a head. 

  • To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head. 

  • To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball 

  • To go in front of. 

  • To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose. 

  • To move in a specified direction. 

  • To check or restrain. 

  • To remove the head from a fish. 

  • To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river. 

  • To cut off the top of; to lop off. 

  • To set on the head. 

adj
  • Of, relating to, or intended for the head. 

  • Coming from in front. 

  • Placed at the top or the front. 

  • Foremost in rank or importance. 

skip

noun
  • A wheeled basket used in cotton factories. 

  • 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). 

  • A college servant. 

  • A skip car. 

  • The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks. 

  • An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent. 

  • A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. 

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

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

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

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

  • A charge of syrup in the pans. 

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

  • skywave propagation 

  • The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain. 

  • 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. 

  • A beehive. 

  • A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock. 

verb
  • To move by hopping on alternate feet. 

  • To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. 

  • To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. 

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

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

  • To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface. 

  • To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage). 

  • To have insufficient ink transfer. 

  • To leap about lightly. 

  • Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting). 

  • To jump rope. 

  • To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner. 

  • To leap lightly over. 

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