skill
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
skill/skɪl/
▶noun the ability to do something well; expertise or dexterity. ▶verb (usu. as noun skilling) train (a worker) to do a particular task.
– derivatives
skilless adjective (archaic).
skilless adjective (archaic).
– origin OE scele ‘knowledge’, from ON skil ‘discernment, knowledge’.
'skill' also found in these Oxford entries:
ability
- able
- achieve
- acquire
- address
- art
- artistic
- at
- attainment
- audition
- basic
- bedazzle
- bravura
- brush
- bushcraft
- campcraft
- charlatan
- cheat
- chess
- chic
- chops
- computer-literate
- conclusion
- consummate
- contrive
- cookery
- Cossack
- craft
- cross-train
- cultivate
- cultivation
- cunning
- daub
- demanding
- deskill
- dexterity
- difficult
- diplomacy
- display
- divertissement
- drawing
- elocution
- empathy
- epideictic
- equestrianism
- exacting
- examination
- exercise
- exhibition
- experience
