skill

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
2. (obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
3. (obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
4. (obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.

Adj

Great, excellent.

Verb

1. To set apart; separate.
2. To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
3. To know; to understand.
4. To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
5. To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
6. To make a difference; signify; matter.
7. To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.

Sinònims

ability

dexterity

proficiency

talent

cleverness

art

🎨

aptitude

expertise

capability

expertness

craft

competence

knack

technique

mastery

adroitness

capacity

craftsmanship

deftness

experience

artistry

workmanship

knowledge

power

efficiency

cunning

ingenuity

science

faculty

accomplishment

expert

adeptness

technology

skillfulness

know-how

skilfulness

competency

trick

handiness

understanding

tact

attainment

trade

fitness

sense

acquisition

sleight

force

finesse

hand

✋

acquirement

lucidity

consciousness

agility

mind

qualification

artfulness

effort

realization

shrewdness

skillful

skills

stratagem

strength

facility

wit

work

flair

genius

gift

🎁

calling

📲

awareness

ken

command

masterfulness

cum-savvy

able

acquaintance

active

address

artifice

availableness

bent

capable

cheating

control

craftwork

delicacy

diligence

efficient

elegance

endowment

engineering

expand

fine workmanship

grace

grip

habit

industrious

intellect

knowhow

kung fu

labor

learning

master hand

mastership

matter

merit

method

palm

performance

potency

potential

practice

quaint

quality

quickness

reasonableness

sapience

scheme

subtlety

suitability

technic

technics

train

🚋

virtuosity

wisdom

wise

craftmanship

know how

professional knowledge

one’s intention

good move

special skill

scope of one’s power

noesis

effectiveness

intelligence

quality of work

school psychologist

technique use of the hands

practical knowledge

savoir-faire

Art

🎨

technical ability

consummate skill

acquired habit

acquiry

Hayward?

abilities

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/skɪl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: skill

Heretat de anglès antic: scille

Cognat amb danès: skel

Cognat amb suec: skäl

Cognat amb neerlandès: verschil

Heretat de anglès mitjà: skilen

Heretat de anglès antic: scilian

Cognat amb danès: skille

Cognat amb suec: skilja

Cognat amb islandès: skilja

Cognat amb baix alemany: schelen

Cognat amb neerlandès: schelen

In summary

From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old English scille and 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).