Skill

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English

Verb

Skill (third-person singular simple present Skills, present participle Skilling, simple past and past participle Skilled)

  1. (transitive) To set apart; separate.
  2. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
  3. (intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
  4. (intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge of; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
  5. (intransitive, archaic) To make a difference; signify; matter.

Noun

Skill (plural Skills)
  1. capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.

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Adjective

Skill (comparative more Skill, superlative most Skill)

  1. (UK, slang) great, excellent
    • 1987, Teresa Maughan, Letters (in Your Sinclair issue 18, June 1987)
      Well, unfortunately for you, my dearest Waggipoos, I'm much more skill than you!
    • 1991, Wreckers (video game review in Crash issue 88, May 1991)
      This game is skill. Remember that because it's going to sound really complicated.
    • 1999, "Andy Smith", I am well skill (on Internet newsgroup alt.digitiser)
      And I am skiller than you.

Adjectives for Skill

experimental; inordinate; persevering; diagnostic; dangerous; tactical; moderate; ancient; profound; manual; technical; artistic; trained; superior; exceptional; subtle; acquired; dramatic; linguistic; deft; infinite; descriptive; acknowledged; inventive; competent; matchless; tattered; martial; prodigious; strict; uncanny; untaught; professional; diplomatic; considerable; consummate; daredevil; executive; shallow; exquisite; simple; barren; quaint; detached; methodic; journalistic; masterly; practical; unavailing; athletic; unusual; creative; analytical; potent; monastic; unsurpassed; fearful; unfaltering; comparative; mechanical; rare; quick; sufficient.

Verbs for Skill

absorb—; acquire—; applaud—; capitalize —; challenge—; confound—; contend with —; develop—; devise—; discern—; display —; evince—; execute with—; exhaust—; exhibit—; extol—; manifest—; overestimate —; surpass—; transfer—.

Thesaurus

Mnemosyne, ability, accomplishment, adeptness, adroitness, affect memory, anterograde memory, aptitude, art, artistry, ascendancy, atavism, capability, cleverness, collective memory, command, computer memory, craft, cunning, deanship, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, disk memory, drum memory, ease, emotional response, engram, excellence, experience, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, faculty, favor, finesse, forte, gift, greatness, handiness, incomparability, information storage, ingenuity, inimitability, kinesthetic memory, knack, know-how, lead, majority, mastership, mastery, mechanics, mechanism, memory, memory bank, memory circuit, memory trace, method, mind, mneme, one-upmanship, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, priority, privilege, proficiency, prowess, quickness, race memory, readiness, recollection, remembrance, right-of-way, science, screen memory, seniority, skillfulness, sleight, souvenir, strength, success, superiority, talent, tape memory, technic, technical know-how, technical knowledge, technical skill, technics, technique, technology, transcendence, transcendency, verbal response, virtuosity, visual memory

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English skilen (also schillen), partly from Old English scylian, scielian (“to separate, part, divide off”); and partly from Old Norse skilja (“to divide, separate”); both from Proto-Germanic *skilōnan, *skiljanan (“to divide, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kalǝ-, *(s)kelǝ- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skille (“to separate, discard”), Swedish skilja (“to distinguish, differentiate, part”), Icelandic skilja (“to understand”), Dutch schelen (“to make a difference”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old English *scile and Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *skilin (“separation, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kalǝ-, *(s)kelǝ- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skel (“a separation, boundary, divide”), Swedish skäl (“reason”), Dutch verschil (“difference”).

Translations

Noun

capacity to do something well

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