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skill

UK/skɪl/ US/skɪɫ/ common slang uk

noun

1.
2.

ability to produce solutions in some problem domain

  • “the skill of a well-trained boxer”
  • “the sweet science of pugilism”
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Origin

From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *skilją (“separation, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”).

Phrases

  • Dreyfus model of skill acquisition
  • everyday skill
  • game of skill
  • hard skill
  • life skill
  • person having ordinary skill in the art
  • person of ordinary skill in the art
  • skill ceiling

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