skill
Meanings
Plural: skills
Noun
- an ability that has been acquired by training
- ability to produce solutions in some problem domain
- "the skill of a well-trained boxer"
- A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
- Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
- Knowledge; understanding.
- Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
Adj
- Great, excellent.
Verb
- To set apart; separate.
- To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
- To know; to understand.
- To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
- To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
- To make a difference; signify; matter.
- To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
Origin / 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).
Synonyms
ability, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, aptitude, attainment, capability, capacity, competence, competency, cunning, dexterity, ease, facility, knack, list, moxie, potential, proficiency, science, skill, split, talent, tekkers, touch
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
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