Skill

Verb

 * 1)  To set apart; separate.
 * 2)  To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
 * 3)  To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
 * 4)  To have personal or practical knowledge of; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
 * 5)  To make a difference; signify; matter.

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.

Synonyms

 * ability
 * talent
 * See also Thesaurus:skill

Derived terms

 * skillset

Related terms

 * skilful, skillful
 * skilled
 * skillfulness

Adjective

 * 1)  great, excellent
 * 2) * 1987, Teresa Maughan, Letters (in Your Sinclair issue 18, June 1987)
 * Well, unfortunately for you, my dearest Waggipoos, I'm much more skill than you!
 * 1) * 1991, Wreckers (video game review in Crash issue 88, May 1991)
 * This game is skill. Remember that because it's going to sound really complicated.
 * 1) * 1999, "Andy Smith", I am well skill (on Internet newsgroup alt.digitiser)
 * And I am skiller than you.

Adjectives for Skill
experimental;  inordinate;   persevering; diagnostic; dangerous; tactical; moderate; ancient; profound; manual; technical; artistic; trained; superior; exceptional; subtle; acquired; dramatic; linguistic; deft; infinite; descriptive; acknowledged; inventive; competent; matchless; tattered; martial; prodigious; strict; uncanny; untaught; professional; diplomatic; considerable; consummate; daredevil; executive; shallow; exquisite; simple; barren; quaint; detached; methodic; journalistic; masterly; practical; unavailing; athletic; unusual; creative; analytical; potent; monastic; unsurpassed; fearful; unfaltering; comparative; mechanical; rare; quick; sufficient.

Verbs for Skill
absorb—; acquire—; applaud—; capitalize —; challenge—; confound—; contend with —; develop—; devise—; discern—; display —; evince—; execute with—; exhaust—; exhibit—; extol—; manifest—; overestimate —; surpass—; transfer—.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
From skilen: (also schillen:), partly from  scylian:, scielian:; and partly from  skilja:; both from, from. Cognate with skille:,  skilja:,  skilja:,  schelen:.

Etymology 2
From skill:, skille: (also schil:, schile:), from  *undefined: and  skil:, from, from. Cognate with skel:,  skäl:,  verschil:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: vaardigheid
 * Arabic: مهارة
 * Catalan: habilitat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:, ,  ,  ,  Fertigkeit
 * Hebrew: (yekholet),  (kisharon)
 * Hindi: कुशलता, कौशल, निपुणता
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: ,


 * Interlingua: habilitate, talento
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: habilitas, peritia, potestas, potentia
 * Lithuanian: įgūdis
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: умение,, , сноровка, , ,  ,
 * Slovene: spretnost, veščina
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: నేర్పు(naerpu)నిపుణత(nipuNata)

Anagrams

 * kills