skip vs spring

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. 

spring

noun
  • An act of springing: a leap, a jump. 

  • The source from which an action or supply of something springs. 

  • An erection of the penis. 

  • A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement. 

  • The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars. 

  • A spray or body of water springing from the ground. 

  • A grove of trees; a forest. 

  • The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life. 

  • A shoot, a young tree. 

  • The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process. 

  • A race, a lineage. 

  • a period of political liberalization and democratization 

  • A cause, a motive, etc. 

  • Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing. 

  • A youth. 

  • Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc. 

  • A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement. 

  • The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere. 

  • Elastic energy, power, or force. 

  • A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched. 

adj
  • the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter 

verb
  • To cause to well up or flow out of the ground. 

  • to descend or originate from. 

  • To cause to move energetically; (equestrianism) to cause to gallop, to spur. 

  • To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter. 

  • To have something crack. 

  • To grow taller or longer. 

  • to catch in an illegal act or compromising position. 

  • To announce unexpectedly, to reveal. 

  • To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape. 

  • To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape. 

  • To extend, to curve. 

  • To rise suddenly, (of tears) to well up. 

  • To cause to rise from cover. 

  • To pay or spend a certain sum, to cough up. 

  • To cause to crack. 

  • to arise, to come into existence. 

  • To build, to form the initial curve of. 

  • To gush, to flow out of the ground. 

  • To rise from cover. 

  • To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension. 

  • To bring forth. 

  • To sprout, to grow, 

  • To crack. 

  • To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable. 

  • To come upon and flush out 

  • To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place. 

  • To swell with milk or pregnancy. 

  • To come dramatically into view. 

  • To spend the springtime somewhere 

  • To gush, to flow suddenly and violently. 

  • to move with great speed and energy; to leap, to jump; to dart, to sprint; of people: to rise rapidly from a seat, bed, etc. 

  • to find or get enough food during springtime. 

  • To cause to explode, to set off, to detonate. 

  • To be born, descend, or originate from 

  • To appear, to dawn. 

  • To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure. 

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