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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Skill \Skill\, noun [Icel. skil a distinction, discernment; akin to skilja to separate, divide, distinguish, Sw. skilja,. skille to separate, skiel reason, right, justice, Sw. sk["a]l reason, Lith. skelli to cleave. Cf. {Shell}, {Shoal}, a multitude.]
1. Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause. [Obs.] --Shak. ''As it was skill and right.'' --Chaucer.
For great skill is, he prove that he wrought. [For with good reason he should test what he created.] --Chaucer.
2. Knowledge; understanding. [Obsoles.]
That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. --Spenser.
Nor want we skill or art. --Milton.
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. --Swift.
Where patience her sweet skill imparts. --Keble.
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. --Fuller.
5. Any particular art. [Obs.]
Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful. --Hooker.
Syn: Dexterity; adroitness; expertness; art; aptitude; ability.
Usage: {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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Skill \Skill\, verb (used with an object) To know; to understand. [Obs.]
To skill the arts of expressing our mind. --Barrow.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Skill \Skill\, verb (used without an object)
1. To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance. [Obs.]
I can not skill of these thy ways. --Herbert.
2. To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally. --Spenser.
What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold About thy neck do drown thee? --Herbert.
It skills not talking of it. --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
skill
noun
1: an ability that has been acquired by training [syn: {accomplishment}, {acquirement}, {acquisition}, {attainment}]
2: ability to produce solutions in some problem domain; "the skill of a well-trained boxer"; "the sweet science of pugilism" [syn: {science}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "skill": 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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Skill A somewhat peculiar blend between {Franz-Lisp} and {C}, with a large set of various {CAD} primitives. It is owned by {Cadence Design Systems} and has been used in their CAD frameworks since 1985. It's an {extension language} to the CAD framework (in the same way that {Emacs-Lisp} extends {GNU Emacs}), enabling you to automate virtually everything that you can do manually in for example the graphic editor. Skill accepts {C}-syntax, fun(a b), as well as {Lisp} syntax, (fun a b), but most users (including Cadence themselves) use the C-style. [Jonas Jarnestrom ]. (1995-02-14)
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