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Skill   /skɪl/   Listen
noun
Skill  n.  
1.
Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause. (Obs.) "As it was skill and right." "For great skill is, he prove that he wrought." (For with good reason he should test what he created.)
2.
Knowledge; understanding. (Obsoles.) "That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight." "Nor want we skill or art."
3.
The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc. "Phocion,... by his great wisdom and skill at negotiations, diverted Alexander from the conquest of Athens." "Where patience her sweet skill imparts."
4.
Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address. (Obs.) "Richard... by a thousand princely skills, gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return."
5.
Any particular art. (Obs.) "Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful."
Synonyms: Dexterity; adroitness; expertness; art; aptitude; ability. Skill, Dexterity, Adroitness. Skill is more intelligent, denoting familiar knowledge united to readiness of performance. Dexterity, when applied to the body, is more mechanical, and refers to habitual ease of execution. Adroitness involves the same image with dexterity, and differs from it as implaying a general facility of movement (especially in avoidance of danger or in escaping from a difficalty). The same distinctions apply to the figurative sense of the words. A man is skillful in any employment when he understands both its theory and its practice. He is dexterous when he maneuvers with great lightness. He is adroit in the use od quick, sudden, and well-directed movements of the body or the mind, so as to effect the object he has in view.


verb
Skill  v. t.  To know; to understand. (Obs.) "To skill the arts of expressing our mind."


Skill  v. i.  
1.
To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance. (Obs.) "I can not skill of these thy ways."
2.
To make a difference; to signify; to matter; used impersonally. "What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold About thy neck do drown thee?" "It skills not talking of it."





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"Skill" Quotes from Famous Books



... dramatists which will not repay original study. But at least we must recognize the vast advantages with which a practised actor, impregnated by the associations of his life, and by study—with all the practical and critical skill of his profession up to the date at which he appears, whether he adopts or rejects tradition—addresses himself to the interpretation of any great character, even if he have no originality whatever. There is something still more than this, ...
— The Drama • Henry Irving
... the relative position had changed completely. By 1914 the population of Germany was nearly seventy per cent in excess of that of France; she had become one of the first manufacturing and trading nations of the world; her technical skill and her means for the production of future wealth were unequaled. France on the other hand had a stationary or declining population, and, relatively to others, had fallen seriously behind in wealth and in ...
— The Economic Consequences of the Peace • John Maynard Keynes
... side of this steep bluff, thickly overgrown with sage brush, mountain laurel, and jack pines; over rocks and through break-neck ravines and washouts, the soldiers and citizens picked their way with, all the skill and adroitness of trained hunters, until at last they reached a position overlooking the Indian camp, and within 150 yards of the nearest teepees. The camp was pitched on the south bank of the Wisdom or Big Hole River, which is formed by the confluence ...
— The Battle of the Big Hole • G. O. Shields
... days have been joined each to each 'by natural piety.' The place which it first took through privilege and favour, and could have taken in no other way, it has kept ever since for nearly two centuries and a half, and now holds by virtue of skill, energy, and that eternal vigilance which is both the price and the ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert
... a book) formato. Size glueto. Skate gliti. Skates glitiloj. Skein fadenaro. Skeleton skeleto. Sketch skizi. Sketch skizo. Skewer trapikileto. Skid malakcelo. Skiff boateto. Skilful lerta. Skill lerteco. Skilled lerta. Skim sensxauxmigi. Skimmer sxauxmkulero. Skin hauxto. Skin (animal) felo. Skin senfeligi. Skinner felisto. Skip salteti. Skirmish bataleto. Skirt jupo. Skittles kegloj. Skulk kasxigxi. [Error in book: kasigxi] Skull kranio. Sky cxielo. Skylight ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes


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