skip vs sound

skip

noun
  • A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

sound

noun
  • Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard. 

  • A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra, &. 

  • A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean. 

  • A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde. 

  • A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound. 

  • Noise without meaning; empty noise. 

  • A vibration capable of causing such sensations. 

  • A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium. 

  • The air bladder of a fish. 

verb
  • To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe. 

  • Dive downwards, used of a whale. 

  • To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. 

  • Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device. 

  • To convey an impression by one's sound. 

  • To cause to produce a sound. 

  • To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion. 

  • To pronounce. 

  • To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy. 

  • To produce a sound. 

adv
  • Soundly. 

intj
  • Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm. 

adj
  • Heavy; laid on with force. 

  • Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective. 

  • Complete, solid, or secure. 

  • Having the property of soundness. 

  • Healthy. 

  • Quiet and deep. 

  • Good; acceptable; decent. 

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