skill

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  1. noun Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience. See Synonyms at ability.
  2. noun An art, trade, or technique, particularly one requiring use of the hands or body.
  3. noun A developed talent or ability: writing skills.
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  • Because by gum, I was gonna get back up on that drinking-beverages-from-grown-up-cups horse.Apparently, a compromised drinking-coffee skill translates into a compromised making-coffee skill.
  • It was this gift for relatively unimportant detail which had made her so valuable in her youth, and now in her age her skill was a fetish. —  Flowers for the Judge - Margery Allingham - Campion 07 - 1937
  • How beautiful her skill was as a dressmaker, the exquisite lines in her own black or gray or white dresses testified to every one who ever saw her. —  Authors and Friends
  • Because, as he told her, another skill is always useful in life, and besides, You Never Know She took two of the hair grips with which she was always well endowed, and following the delicate instruction she had received, tackled the top right-hand drawer, which opened to her with a grateful little sigh. —  EQMM, Sep - Oct 2006
  • Information technology is very significant to any company if they wish to keep up with the modern demands of globalization and this skill is also very in demand. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
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ability ·  knowledge ·  strength ·  activity ·  courage ·  technique ·  resource ·  art ·  success ·  tool ·  judgment

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skill:   skills
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English skil, from Old Norse, discernment; see skel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English skilen (also assibilated schillen, schyllen, from Anglo-Saxon *scylian), from Icelandic Swedish skilja =Danish skille, separate, impersonal differ, matter, =Middle Dutch schillen, schellen =MLG, schelen, separate; akin to Swedish skala =Danish skalle, peel, =Lithuanian skelti, cleave; prob. from √ skal, separate, which appears also in scale, shale, shell, etc.
  2. from Middle English skill, skil, skyl, skyll, skille, skylle, skile, skyle, skele (also assibilated schile, schil, scele, from Anglo-Saxon *scile), from Icelandic skil, a distinction, discernment, knowledge, =Swedish skäl, reason, =Danish skjel, a separation, boundary, limit, =Middle Low German Schele =Middle Dutch schele, scheele, separation, discrimination: see the verb.
 

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