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Skill
Definitions
- 1 Great, excellent. UK, slang
"Well, unfortunately for you, my dearest Waggipoos, I'm much more skill than you!"
- 1 A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate. countable, uncountable
"Where did you pick up that skill?"
- 2 ability to produce solutions in some problem domain wordnet
- 3 Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"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;"
- 4 an ability that has been acquired by training wordnet
- 5 Knowledge; understanding. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"And Howell Dha shall goodly well indew The salvage minds with skill of just and trew;"
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- 6 Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"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."
- 1 To set apart; separate. transitive
- 2 To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to). dialectal, transitive
"I cannot skill of these Thy ways […]"
- 3 To know; to understand. Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal, rare, transitive
"As for the virginals I have none here that skill of them, except the young lord."
- 4 To have knowledge or comprehension; discern. intransitive
- 5 To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous. intransitive
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- 6 To make a difference; signify; matter. archaic, intransitive
"So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not […]"
- 7 To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
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).
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).
From Middle English skilen (also schillen), partly from Old English scilian (“to separate, part, divide off”); and partly from Old Norse skilja (“to divide, separate”); both from Proto-Germanic *skilōną, *skiljaną (“to divide, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skille (“to separate, discard”), Swedish skilja (“to distinguish, differentiate, part”), Icelandic skilja (“to understand”), Low German schelen (“to make a difference; to be squint-eyed”), Dutch schelen (“to make a difference”).
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