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skip1 the captain of a curling or bowls team skip2 a college servant, esp of Trinity College, Dublin skip [skip] (computer science) In fixed-instruction-length digital computers, to bypass or ignore one or more instructions in an otherwise sequential process. A device on a card punch that causes columns on a punch in fields where no punching is desired to move rapidly past the punching station. Action of a computer printer that moves rapidly over a line so that a blank line appears in the printout. (mechanical engineering) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| "I could skip longer than that," she said when she stopped. "I skip forty years," said the Baker, in tears, "And proceed without further remark To the day when you took me aboard of your ship To help you in hunting the Snark. Such men rule orderly in their cities of fair women: great riches and wealth follow them: their sons exult with ever-fresh delight, and their daughters in flower-laden bands play and skip merrily over the soft flowers of the field. |
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