单词 | skipping |
释义 | skippingn.1 1. The action of the verb skip, in literal senses. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > leaping lightly or skipping skippingc1440 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > skipping skipping1800 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 246/1 Hoppynge, or skyppynge, saltacio. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxxviii. 47 Of diseases which come by skipping in of stones or chippes..into the eyes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Resiliment, a leaping, skipping, rebounding, backe. 1800 Infant's Library IX. 7 Skipping. This is a very healthful play in winter; it will make you nice and warm in frosty weather. 1844 T. Hood Skipping i Little Children skip,..All are fond of skipping! 2. The action of skipping, in transferred senses. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > [noun] > passing over, omission hippingc1440 overskippingc1450 skipping1566 pretermission1879 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > passing more than one degree skipping1566 leap1664 skip1730 society > communication > reading > [noun] > skimming or browsing skimming1711 skipping1824 browsing1836 riffling1909 skim-reading1926 riffle1951 riff1960 1566 Bk. Discipline in Wks. J. Knox (1848) II. 240 This skipping and divagatioun from place to place of Scripture. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 7 I know not how to tune them [sc. notes] by reason of their skipping. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge Contents Stirring of Ghost is like skipping of thought. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. i. 5 Such as are addicted to the laudable practice of skipping. 1863 Reader 5 Dec. 660 We remember, of course, that skipping is fair play in novel-reading. 1885 Manch. Examiner 22 July 3/2 The reader..can always have recourse to judicious skipping. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). skippingn.2 In sugar-making: (see quots.). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > quantity of syrup skipping1824 skip1858 skepping1883 1824 Mechanics' Mag. No. 60. 58 Whether the new boiler can improve the grain of inferior West Indian sugars. Two charges, or skeppings, as they are technically termed, were run off in 13½ minutes. 1826 W. Henry Elem. Chem. II. 196 Of this solution about fifty gallons, called a skipping, are put into a copper pan. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1202 Each finished charge is called a skipping, because it is skipped or laded out. 1860 C. Tomlinson Useful Arts & Manuf. 2nd Ser. Sugar 16 Sometimes the last and largest copper contains a skipping-teach, a smaller vessel of the same shape with a valve at the bottom worked by a handle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). skippingadj. 1. That skips. Also spec. in skipping stickleback (see quot. 1803). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > skipping skipping1560 1560 Bible (Geneva) Wisd. xvii. 19 The running of skipping beastes, that colde not be sene. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 60 The skipping king, he ambled vp and downe. View more context for this quotation 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. F3v Hee's a good skipping Swaggerer. View more context for this quotation 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 111 A designe to make your skipping suiters hop away and leave you. 1734 H. Fielding Intrig. Chambermaid i. v. 12 Indeed with your little pert skipping Beaux, I don't know what may happen. a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 410 A skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe. 1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. 609 Skipping Stickleback, Gasterosteus Saltatrix... Stickleback with eight dorsal spines connected by a membrane. 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 95 A she-goat..with her two little black fantastically-skipping kids. 2. Characterized by skips. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > skipping > characterized by skipping1596 skipjack1605 skippy1883 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. B1v In their vild vnseuill skipping giggs. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 172 An Æthiopian..who..doth dance in their processions with a skipping motion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1c1440n.21824adj.1560 |
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