A member of the Academy; an academician.
A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
Academic studies.
Academic dress; academicals.
Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
A college servant.
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 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 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.
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.