skip vs strip

skip

noun
  • A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock. 

  • 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. 

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. 

strip

noun
  • A trough for washing ore. 

  • The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease. 

  • The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. 

  • Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes. 

  • The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters. 

  • A strip steak. 

  • The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters. 

  • An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle. 

  • A landing strip. 

  • A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively. 

  • A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area. 

  • A comic strip. 

  • A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities. 

  • A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule. 

verb
  • To perform a striptease. 

  • To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.) 

  • To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation. 

  • To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling. 

  • To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing). 

  • To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule. 

  • To pare off the surface of (land) in strips. 

  • To remove the insulation from a wire/cable. 

  • To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands". 

  • To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. 

  • To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves). 

  • To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color. 

  • To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening. 

  • To remove cargo from (a container). 

  • To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. 

  • To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit). 

  • To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes. 

  • To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel. 

  • To take off clothing. 

  • To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. 

  • To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest. 

  • To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk. 

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