Sekirov Dictionary

skill

/skɪl/

noun 5
verb 7
adjective 1
forms 6
phrases 1

noun5

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something that a person has learned to do well through training or experience
- Where did you pick up that skill?
- With great skill, she navigated through the tricky passage.
A reusable configuration (prompt) that defines how an AI agent performs a specific task.
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(no longer used) Knowledge; understanding.
- And Howell Dha shall goodly well indew The salvage minds with skill of just and trew — 1590
(no longer used) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
(no longer used) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

verb7

To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
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(dialect) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
- I cannot skill of these Thy ways […] — 1633
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(dialect, rare) To know; to understand.
- 17th century, Isaac Barrow, “On Industry in Our Particular Calling as Scholars,” […] to skill the arts of expressing our mind and imparting our conceptions with advantage, so as to instruct or persuade others […]
To set apart; separate.
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(no longer used) To make a difference; signify; matter.
- So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not […] — 1592

adjective1

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(UK, slang) Great, excellent.
- Well, unfortunately for you, my dearest Waggipoos, I'm much more skill than you! — 1987

forms

skilled · skilling · skills · skillz · skiller · skillest

Phrases with skill

skill up
To increase the skills of (typically a worker); to train.

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