address vs skip

address

noun
  • The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging. 

  • An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this. 

  • A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style. 

  • A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter. 

  • The property itself. 

  • A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory; a string of characters identifying a location on the internet or other network; sometimes (specifically) an e-mail address. 

  • A formal approach to a sovereign, especially an official appeal or petition; later (specifically) a response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament. 

verb
  • To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to. 

  • To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit. 

  • To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it. 

  • To direct one’s remarks (to someone). 

  • To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor. 

  • To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake. 

  • To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to. 

  • To refer to a location in computer memory. 

  • To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee). 

  • To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience). 

  • To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo. 

skip

noun
  • 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 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 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. 

  • 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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