The difference between Pass over and Skip

When used as verbs, pass over means to bypass (something), whereas skip means to move by hopping on alternate feet.


Skip is also noun with the meaning: a leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

check bellow for the other definitions of Pass over and Skip

  1. Pass over as a verb (transitive):

    To bypass (something); to skip (something).

  2. Pass over as a verb (transitive):

    To make a transit of; to pass through or across (something).

  3. Pass over as a verb (transitive):

    To fly over (something).

  4. Pass over as a verb (transitive):

    To overlook; not to note or resent.

    Examples:

    "to pass over an affront"

  5. Pass over as a verb (intransitive, euphemistic):

    To die and thus progress to the afterlife.

  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.