An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
The act of shutting; a closing.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
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.
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.