skill
//skɪl//
formalForms
- Plural
- skills
- Comparative
- skiller
- Superlative
- skillest
- present (v1)
- skill
- past (v2)
- skilled
- past participle (v3)
- skilled
- present participle
- skilling
- 3rd person singular
- skills
Definitions
1.A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
- Where did you pick up that skill?
- With great skill, she navigated through the tricky passage.
- Doing that coaching course not only taught me useful skills on the field, but also some important life skills.
2.A reusable configuration (prompt) that defines how an AI agent performs a specific task.
1.Great, excellent.(slang)
- Well, unfortunately for you, my dearest Waggipoos, I'm much more skill than you!
- This game is skill. Remember that because it's going to sound really complicated.
- And I am skiller than you.
1.To set apart; separate.
2.To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
3.To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
4.To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #851
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
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”).