| skip | 1. A basket. See Skep. 2. A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories. 3. <chemical> An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock. 4. A charge of sirup in the pans. 5. A beehive; a skep. See: Skep. 1. A light leap or bound. 2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. 3. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. Skip mackerel. <zoology> See Bluefish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| skip areas | Subsidiary segments of diseased intestine or colon in regional enteritis or Crohn's colitis, separated from the region of major involvement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| skipjack | 1. An upstart. 2. <zoology> An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle. 3. <zoology> A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc. 4. A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross-section. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| skipped generation | A phenomenon of pedigrees in which a gene is transmitted from one affected person to another through a phenotypically unaffected person, as by recessivity (especially for X-linked traits), epistasis, variable expressivity, or absence of an environmental challenge such as a toxin. Except at a crass phenotypic level (e.g., clinical or commercial) this term becomes progressively less useful as the mechanisms are elucidated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| skipper | 1. The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel. 2. A ship boy. Origin: D. Schipper. See Shipper, and Ship. 1. One who, or that which, skips. 2. A young, thoughtless person. 3. <zoology> The saury (Scomberesox saurus). 4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese. 5. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |