skype
verb/skaɪp/
Etymology From Skype.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To send (a message or file) with Skype.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Ambitransitive To contact (a person) via Skype.
- I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.
- While spatial mobility does cause discontinuity in social relationships and result in losing the support system from their home country (Rangaswamy 2000), yet the social ties of our participants have not dissolved as they have been able to maintain supportive networks in India through physical visits, e-mails, ‘skypeing’ to contacts in foreign places.2013, S. Irudaya Rajan, editor, India Migration Report 2013: Social Costs of Migration, Routledge, →ISBN:
2 more examples
- ‘Where’s 007? He invited too?’ ‘He’s skypeing his mum. He’ll meet us down there.’2015, Alan Carter, Bad Seed, Fremantle: Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 123:
- And so Andy went home, still on a caffeine high, feeling excited about life as a graduate student, and instead of skypeing with Anja or going for a beer, he went online and read up on some of the relevant particle physics.2015, Denis O’Sullivan, The Anthropist: A Curious Tale of Parallel Monogamy, Sex, Religion, Quantum Mechanics and Volleyball, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 21: