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skill

Pronunciation: /skɪl/

The English word “skill” has 13 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
  2. A reusable configuration (prompt) that defines how an AI agent performs a specific task.
  3. Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
  4. Knowledge; understanding.
  5. Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.

adjective

  1. Great, excellent.

verb

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

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”). Cognate with Danish skel (“a separation, boundary, divide”), Swedish skäl (“reason”), Dutch verschil (“difference”) and schillen (“to separate the outer layer (schil) from the…

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