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单词 skipping
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skippingn.1

Etymology: < skip v.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskipping.
1. The action of the verb skip, in literal senses.
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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!
attributive.1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. (at cited word) In a skipping posture, saltabundus.1894 Daily News 14 June 6/4 Among the ‘sports’ for girls being a skipping contest and various races.1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 827 Her first attack cut short prolonged and severe skipping effort.1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ii. 38 Norman Douglas gives it as a skipping rhyme in ‘London Street Games’.1977 N. Freeling Gadget ii. 70 How many skipping rhymes do I know? Sixty? A hundred?
2. The action of skipping, in transferred senses.
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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

Forms: Also skepping
Etymology: < skip v.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskipping.
In sugar-making: (see quots.). Also attributive.
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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.

Etymology: < skip v.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskipping.
1. That skips. Also spec. in skipping stickleback (see quot. 1803).
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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.
in extended use.1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ii. 179 Allay with some cold drops of modestie Thy skipping spirit. View more context for this quotation1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B4 A short finger and a naked chinne; A skipping eye.1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Skipping-Notes, notes which do not proceed by conjoint degrees, nor in any regular course, but which lay at awkward and unexpected distances from each other.
2. Characterized by skips.
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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).
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