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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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| She concludes with several recent policy analyses which, because they lack historical analysis but include heavy helpings of arguments for making the welfare state fatter and more oppressive, are eminently skippable. |
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