The difference between Dumpster and Skip

When used as nouns, dumpster means a large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied, whereas skip means a leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

Skip is also verb with the meaning: to move by hopping on alternate feet.

check bellow for the other definitions of Dumpster and Skip

  1. Dumpster as a noun (US):

    A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.

  1. Skip as a verb (intransitive):

    To move by hopping on alternate feet.

    Examples:

    "She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other."

  2. Skip as a verb (intransitive):

    To leap about lightly.

  3. Skip as a verb (intransitive):

    To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

    Examples:

    "The rock will skip across the pond."

  4. Skip as a verb (transitive):

    To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

    Examples:

    "I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond."

  5. Skip as a verb (transitive):

    To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

    Examples:

    "My heart will skip a beat."

    "I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it."

  6. Skip as a verb:

    To place an item in a skip.

  7. Skip as a verb (transitive, informal):

    Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

    Examples:

    "Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it."

  8. Skip as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To leave

    Examples:

    "usex to skip the country"

  9. Skip as a verb:

    To leap lightly over.

    Examples:

    "to skip the rope"

  10. Skip as a verb:

    To jump rope.

    Examples:

    "The girls were skipping in the playground."

  1. Skip as a noun:

    A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

  2. Skip as a noun:

    The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

  3. Skip as a noun (music):

    A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Busby"

  4. Skip as a noun:

    A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

  5. Skip as a noun (radio):

    skywave propagation

  1. Skip as a noun (Australia, New Zealand, British):

    A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents .

  2. Skip as a noun (mining):

    A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.

  3. Skip as a noun (UK, Scotland, dialect):

    A skep, or basket.

  4. Skip as a noun:

    A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.

  5. Skip as a noun (sugar manufacture):

    A charge of syrup in the pans.

  6. Skip as a noun:

    A beehive.

  1. Skip as a noun:

    Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.

  2. Skip as a noun (curling):

    The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

  1. Skip as a noun (Australia, slang):

    An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

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