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.

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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 .

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-12-06, author=(Simon Hoggart)

, volume=189, issue=26, page=43, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Araucaria's last puzzle: crossword master dies , passage=The skill was not in creating a grid full of words, but in producing clues cryptic enough to baffle the puzzler, yet constructed so honestly that they could be solved by any intelligent person who knew the conventions.}}

(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.

Noun

(es)

A series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 27, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Bayern Munich 2-0 Man City , passage=But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= T time , passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}

This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.

(legal) The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ.

(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.

(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.

(computing) A task or program that is or was executing.

(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.

* 1960', Mack Tyner, '''''Process''' Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances'' - Ordinarily a '''process''' plant will use a steam boiler to supply its ' process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.

* 1987', J. R. Richards, ''Principles of control system design'' in ''Modelling and control of fermentation '''process'''es'' - The words ''plant'' or '''''process''''' infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical ' process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.

A path of succession of states through which a system passes.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}

(lb) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.