skip vs trick

skip

noun
  • A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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. 

trick

noun
  • An entertaining difficult physical action. 

  • A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution. 

  • A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs. 

  • Something designed to fool or swindle. 

  • A term of abuse. 

  • A knot, braid, or plait of hair. 

  • A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined. 

  • A customer or client of a prostitute. 

  • A toy; a trifle; a plaything. 

  • A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick. 

  • An effective, clever or quick way of doing something. 

  • A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long. 

  • Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank. 

verb
  • To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out. 

  • To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive. 

  • To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words). 

adj
  • Defective or unreliable. 

  • Involving trickery or deception. 

  • Stylish or cool. 

  • Able to perform tricks. 

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