skype

present singular third person skypes · participle present skyping · participle present skypeing · participle past skyped · past skyped · alternative Skype

1. transitivecomputingTo make (a telephone call) using Skype software.
2. transitivecomputingTo send (a message or file) with Skype.
3. ambitransitivecomputingTo contact (a person) via Skype.

   I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.

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   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

   ‘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

1. trademarkA telecommunications application by Skype Technologies.

present singular third person Skypes · participle present Skyping · participle present Skypeing · participle past Skyped · past Skyped

1. Alternative letter-case form of skype.

   He planned on Skypeing with his mother regularly.

   2013, Mary Higgins Clark, Daddy’s Gone A Hunting, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 49

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   Online banking, auto bill paying, emailing, texting, social networking, and Skypeing with friends and loved ones has never been easier and makes keeping in touch a breeze.

   2012, Brent Peterson, April Maher, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to RVing, 3rd edition, Alpha Books, →ISBN

   When they weren’t busy flying back and forth between Toronto and New York, they were either calling, texting, or Skypeing each other.

   2014, Suri Rosen, Playing with Matches, ECW Press, →ISBN

   Ronnie appears. "Sweetie—glad you could make it!" I grimace. "Next time my mom Skypes in, remind me to kick you out."

   2020, Gordon Korman, Notorious, page 93