header vs skip

header

noun
  • A headlong fall, jump or dive. 

  • Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it. 

  • A pipe which connects several smaller pipes. 

  • One who puts a head on something. 

  • Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table. 

  • A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above. 

  • Someone who heads the ball. 

  • A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system. 

  • The upper portion of a page (or other) layout. 

  • The first part of a file or record that describes its contents. 

  • A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc. 

  • the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors. 

  • The act of hitting the ball with the head. 

  • A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening. 

  • The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied. 

  • A brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing. 

verb
  • To strike (a ball) with one's head. 

skip

noun
  • A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 wheeled basket used in cotton factories. 

  • 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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