skill
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *skilją (“separation, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skel (“a separation, boundary, divide”), Swedish skäl (“reason”), Dutch verschil (“difference”) and schillen (“to separate the outer layer (schil) from the product”, verb).
Inflected forms:
form: skills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: skiller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: skillest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: skil
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: skills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Where did you pick up that skill?
With great skill, she navigated through the tricky passage.
Doing that coaching course not only taught me useful skills on the field, but also some important life skills.
I have heard the French-man hath good skill in his rapier.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
The skill was not in creating a grid full of words, but in producing clues cryptic enough to baffle the puzzler, yet constructed so honestly that they could be solved by any intelligent person who knew the conventions.
gloss: A reusable configuration (prompt) that defines how an AI agent performs a specific task.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Him so I sought, and so at last I fownd
Where him that witch had thralled to her will,
In chaines of lust and lewde desyres ybownd
And so transformed from his former skill,
That me he knew not, nether his owne ill;
Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant
What place this is; and all the skill I have
Remembers not these garments; nor I know not
Where I did lodge last night. […]
gloss: Knowledge; understanding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: And Howell Dha shall goodly well indew
The salvage minds with skill of just and trew;
[…] This desert soil
Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold;
Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise
Magnificence […]
'I kenna whatna man ye are,' he says, 'but ye have the skill of lassies' hearts. Tell me truly, is there no way to win her to common love?'
gloss: Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Richard was well ſtored with men, the bones; and quickly got money, the ſinews of warre; by a thousand Princely ſkills gathering ſo much coin as if he meant not to return, becauſe looking back would unbowe his reſolution.
gloss: Great, excellent.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: Well, unfortunately for you, my dearest Waggipoos, I'm much more skill than you!
This game is skill. Remember that because it's going to sound really complicated.
And I am skiller than you.
gloss: To set apart; separate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
transitive
examples: I cannot skill of these Thy ways […]
gloss: To know; to understand.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
dialectal
rare
transitive
examples: As for the virginals I have none here that skill of them, except the young lord.
17th century, Isaac Barrow, “On Industry in Our Particular Calling as Scholars,”
[…] to skill the arts of expressing our mind and imparting our conceptions with advantage, so as to instruct or persuade others […]
gloss: To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make a difference; signify; matter.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not […]
[…] I should have given’t you to-day morning, but as a madman’s epistles are no gospels, so it skills not much when they are delivered.
What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold
About thy neck do drown thee?
But it skills not talking of it.
gloss: To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
pos: verb
Synonyms: ability
technique
aptitude
capacity
craft
capability
competency
competence
cunning
dexterity
ease
facility
hand
knack
list
prowess
moxie
potential
proficiency
skill
talent
tekkers
touch
Antonyms: incompetence
inability
ineptitude
Related words: omnicompetence
skilled
forte
Derived words: cyberskills
de-skill
deskill
Dreyfus model of skill acquisition
everyday skill
game of skill
hard skill
life skill
metaskill
microskill
midskill
multiskill
multiskills
outskill
person having ordinary skill in the art
person of ordinary skill in the art
pseudoskill
reskill
re-skill
shilling
skilful
skillful
skillage
skill ceiling
skill crane
skill'd
skilled
skill floor
skillfull
skillfulness
skill issue
skill-less
skillless
skill-lessness
skillman
skill monkey
skillo
skill point
skill set
skillset
skillshare
skill shot
skillsome
skill-stop
skill tester
skill tree
skill up
skillwise
skilly
soft skill
splinter skill
subskill
transferable skill
unskill
upskill
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