check out vs skip

check out

verb
  • To leave in a hurry. 

  • To die. 

  • To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision. 

  • To obtain (source code or other material) from a repository so that one can modify it and later check it back in. 

  • To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order. 

  • To visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game. 

  • To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop. 

  • To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative. 

  • To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded. 

  • To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving. 

  • To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive. 

skip

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

  • 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 leap lightly over. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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