Dictionary

skype en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (UK) audio
• skīp
• /skaɪp/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From Skype.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.
2. (transitive) To send (a message or file) with Skype.
3. (ambitransitive) To contact (a person) via Skype.
   • ‘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:
   • 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:

Forms

Hypernyms

vidcall · vidchat

Translations (10)

de skypen (make a Skype telephone call) · ps سکايپ (make a Skype telephone call) · ru звонить по скайпу (make a Skype telephone call) · fr skyper (make a Skype telephone call) · ar سْكَايَبَ (make a Skype telephone call) · hu szkájpol (make a Skype telephone call) · hy սքայփել (make a Skype telephone call) · fi skypettää (make a Skype telephone call) · nl skypen (make a Skype telephone call) · eo skajpi (make a Skype telephone call)