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skill | craftspersonship |

As nouns the difference between skill and craftspersonship

is that 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 while craftspersonship is the body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).

As a verb skill

is to set apart; separate.

As an adjective skill

is (uk|slang) great, excellent.

skill

English

(wikipedia skill)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) skilen (also schillen), partly from (etyl) scylian, .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To set apart; separate.
  • (transitive, chiefly, dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
  • * (rfdate) Herbert:
    • I can not skill of these thy ways.
  • To know; to understand.
  • * Barrow
    • to skill the arts of expressing our mind
  • 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:
    • What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold / About thy neck do drown thee?
  • * (rfdate) Sir Walter Scott:
    • It skills not talking of it.
    Synonyms
    * (separate) split (call management systems)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) skill, skille (also schil, schile), from (etyl) .

    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.
  • *
  • *: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.
    • Synonyms
    * ability * talent * See also
    Derived terms
    * skillset
    Related terms
    * skilful, skillful * skilled * skillfulness

    Adjective

    (skiller)
  • (UK, slang) great, excellent
  • * 1987 , Teresa Maughan, Letters'' (in ''Your Sinclair issue 18, June 1987)
    • Well, unfortunately for you, my dearest Waggipoos, I'm much more skill than you!
  • * 1991 , Wreckers'' (video game review in ''Crash issue 88, May 1991)
    • This game is skill . Remember that because it's going to sound really complicated.
  • * 1999', "Andy Smith", ''I am well '''skill'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.digitiser )
    • And I am skiller than you.

    Anagrams

    * kills

    References

    * Skel i 1000 English basic words ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

    (head)

    • craftspersonship

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
  • * 1935 : Arts Magazine , page 140 (Art Digest Inc.)
    • The carpenter’s role – like that of a story told 1900 years earlier – is not to craft, for in his craftspersonship he is faulty, but to comprehend.
  • * 2001 : Stephen Gudeman, The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture , page 115] ([http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ Blackwell Publishing)
    • This artisanship or craftspersonship was the sort of Enlightenment activity extolled by Diderot in the eighteenth century.
  • * 2007 : John Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville , page 205] ([http://www.cambridge.org/ Cambridge University Press)
    • The olive too they say belongs to this pioneeress, and craftspersonship , plus many arts and crafts are this inventress’s.

    Usage notes

    * Some modern authors prefer the epicene term (term) to the feminine craftswomanship and the masculine (though traditionally considered gender-nonspecific) craftsmanship; nevertheless, in common usage, (term) is over a myriad times more common than (term). Google Fight]: [http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=craftsmanship&word2=craftspersonship craftsmanship'' vs. ''craftspersonship

    Related terms

    * craftsmanship * craftswomanship

    References