skip vs trap

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. 

trap

verb
  • To leave suddenly, to flee. 

  • To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. 

  • To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses). 

  • To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it. 

  • To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear. 

  • To provide with a trap. 

  • To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area. 

  • Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman. 

  • To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap. 

  • to trap foxes 

  • To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game. 

noun
  • A person's mouth. 

  • An exception generated by the processor or by an external event. 

  • A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. 

  • A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. 

  • A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass. 

  • The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp. 

  • A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock. 

  • A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet. 

  • The trapezius muscle. 

  • A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids. 

  • Trapshooting. 

  • A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. 

  • A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir. 

  • A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear. 

  • Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object. 

  • Belongings. 

  • The game of trapball itself. 

  • A cubicle (in a public toilet). 

  • A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold. 

  • A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou. 

  • A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body. 

  • A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush. 

  • An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood. 

  • A light two-wheeled carriage with springs. 

  • Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female. 

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