skill

Meanings

Noun

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

Adjective

• Great, excellent.

Verb

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

Related

Similar words

• split

Origin

• 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.
• From Middle English skilen (also schillen), partly from Old English scylian, scielian; and partly from Old Norse skilja ("to divide, separate"); both from Proto-Germanic *skilōną, *skiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- ("to split, cut"). Cognate with Danish skille ("to separate, discard"), Swedish skilja ("to distinguish, differentiate, part"), Icelandic skilja ("to understand"), Low German schelen ("to make a difference; to be squint-eyed"), Dutch schelen ("to make a difference").