| skip | | |
| n. (act) | 1. skip | a gait in which steps and hops alternate. |
| ~ gait | a person's manner of walking. |
| n. (act) | 2. omission, skip | a mistake resulting from neglect. |
| ~ failure | an unexpected omission.; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic's failure to check the brakes" |
| ~ error, fault, mistake | a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" |
| v. (cognition) | 3. jump, pass over, skip, skip over | bypass.; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" |
| ~ neglect, leave out, omit, pretermit, overleap, overlook, miss, drop | leave undone or leave out.; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
| v. (stative) | 4. cut, skip | intentionally fail to attend.; "cut class" |
| ~ miss | fail to attend an event or activity.; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week" |
| ~ bunk off, play hooky | play truant from work or school.; "The boy often plays hooky" |
| v. (motion) | 5. hop, hop-skip, skip | jump lightly. |
| ~ bound, jump, leap, spring | move forward by leaps and bounds.; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" |
| v. (motion) | 6. decamp, skip, vamoose | leave suddenly.; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town" |
| ~ go forth, leave, go away | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
| v. (motion) | 7. bound off, skip | bound off one point after another. |
| ~ bounce, rebound, ricochet, take a hop, resile, recoil, spring, bound, reverberate | spring back; spring away from an impact.; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" |
| v. (contact) | 8. skim, skip, skitter | cause to skip over a surface.; "Skip a stone across the pond" |
| ~ throw | propel through the air.; "throw a frisbee" |
| squat | | |
| n. (act) | 1. knee bend, squat, squatting | exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles. |
| ~ leg exercise | exercise designed to strengthen the leg muscles. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat | a small worthless amount.; "you don't know jack" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| n. (act) | 3. squat, squatting | the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels. |
| ~ movement, motility, motion, move | a change of position that does not entail a change of location.; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" |
| v. (contact) | 4. crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat | sit on one's heels.; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm" |
| ~ sit, sit down | be seated. |
| v. (stative) | 5. squat | be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide.; "The building squatted low" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (stative) | 6. squat | occupy (a dwelling) illegally. |
| ~ lodge in, occupy, reside | live (in a certain place).; "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor" |
| adj. | 7. chunky, dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy | short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature.; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure" |
| ~ short, little | low in stature; not tall.; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" |
| adj. | 8. squat, underslung | having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground. |
| ~ low | literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension.; "low ceilings"; "low clouds"; "low hills"; "the sun is low"; "low furniture"; "a low bow" |
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