Charm vs Skill - What's the difference?
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An object, act or words believed to have magic power.
The ability to persuade, delight or arouse admiration; often constructed in the plural.
* Alexander Pope
* Milton
(physics) A quantum number of hadrons]] determined by the quantity of [[charm quark, charm quarks & antiquarks.
A small trinket on a bracelet or chain, etc., traditionally supposed to confer luck upon the wearer.
To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something.
* (John Milton)
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, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence.
* (William Shakespeare)
To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete, rare) To make music upon.
* (Edmund Spenser)
To subdue or overcome by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe.
* (Alexander Pope)
The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book IV:
* Spenser
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p. 152:
A flock, group (especially of finches).
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.
*
*: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 )
In transitive terms the difference between charm and skill
is that charm is to use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence while skill is to know; to understand.As nouns the difference between charm and skill
is that charm is an object, act or words believed to have magic power 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 verbs the difference between charm and skill
is that charm is (seduce, entrance or fascinate)To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something while skill is to set apart; separate.As an adjective skill is
great, excellent.charm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) charme'' (chant, magic spell), from (etyl) ''carmen (song, incantation)Noun
(en noun)- a charm against evil
- It works like a charm .
- He had great personal charm .
- She tried to win him over with her charms .
- Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- the charm of beauty's powerful glance
- She wears a charm bracelet on her wrist.
Synonyms
* (something with magic power ): amulet, incantation, spell, talisman * (quality of arousing delight or admiration ): appeal, attraction, charisma * (trinket ): amulet, dangle, ornamentAntonyms
* (quality of arousing delight or admiration ): boredom, drynessSee also
* quarkVerb
(en verb)- They, on their mirth and dance / Intent, with jocund music charm his ear.
- No witchcraft charm thee!
- I, in my own woe charmed , / Could not find death.
- Here we our slender pipes may safely charm .
- Music the fiercest grief can charm .
Synonyms
* (seduce, entrance or fascinate ): delight, enchant, entrance, win one over * (use magic ): bewitch, enchant, ensorcel, enspellDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
Variant of (chirm), from (etyl) chirme, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, / With charm of earliest Birds
- free liberty to chant our charms at will
- The laughter rose like the charm of starlings.
Anagrams
* English collective nouns ----skill
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.