Difference between Skip and Omission

What is the difference between Skip and Omission?

Skip as a noun is a leaping, jumping or skipping movement. while Omission as a noun is the act of omitting.

Skip

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move by hopping on alternate feet. To leap about lightly. To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface. To omit or disregard (some item or stage). To place an item in a skip. Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting). To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. An open-topped rubbish bin, ranging in size from perhaps 1.5x1.5 metres up to 6x3 metres, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep. An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent. Used by people of southern European descent (those who the "skips" in turn call "wogs"), not used by Anglo Australians themselves. Usually taken to be from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and not of itself insulting (though might be used as such). The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship. The elevator in a mine.

Example sentence: The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

Omission

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of omitting.The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.Something deleted or left out.Something not done or neglected.The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.

Example sentence: Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.

We hope you now know whether to use Skip or Omission in your sentence.

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