Affinity vs Skill - What's the difference?
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A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity. (e.g. sister).
A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
* 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865):
Any romantic relationship.
Any passionate love for something.
(taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin, type or stock.
(geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
(chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds
(medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
(computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses
(geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
To set apart; separate.
(transitive, chiefly, dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
* (rfdate) Herbert:
To know; to understand.
* Barrow
To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
(archaic) To make a difference; signify; matter.
* (rfdate) Herbert:
* (rfdate) Sir Walter Scott:
Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill .
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, title= (lb) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
:(Shakespeare)
(lb) Knowledge; understanding.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Nor want we skill or art.
:(Spenser)
(lb) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:Richardby a thousand princely skills , gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return.
(UK, slang) great, excellent
* 1987 , Teresa Maughan, Letters'' (in ''Your Sinclair issue 18, June 1987)
* 1991 , Wreckers'' (video game review in ''Crash issue 88, May 1991)
* 1999', "Andy Smith", ''I am well '''skill'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.digitiser )
As nouns the difference between affinity and skill
is that affinity is a natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing while skill is capacity to do something well; technique, ability skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.As a verb skill is
to set apart; separate.As an adjective skill is
(uk|slang) great, excellent.affinity
English
Noun
(wikipedia affinity) (affinities)- A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities' — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was '''guessing''' and ' interpreting , not observing or demonstrating.
Derived terms
* affinity card * affinity fraud * affinity reagent * microaffinityskill
English
(wikipedia skill)Etymology 1
From (etyl) skilen (also schillen), partly from (etyl) scylian, .Verb
(en verb)- I can not skill of these thy ways.
- to skill the arts of expressing our mind
- What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold / About thy neck do drown thee?
- It skills not talking of it.
Synonyms
* (separate) split (call management systems)Etymology 2
From (etyl) skill, skille (also schil, schile), from (etyl) .Noun
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Synonyms
* ability * talent * See alsoDerived terms
* skillsetAdjective
(skiller)- 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.