Skill vs Kip - What's the difference?
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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 )
The untanned of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
A bundle or set of such hides.
(obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
The leather made from such hide; kip leather .
(informal, chiefly UK) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
(informal, chiefly UK) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
(informal, chiefly UK) A very untidy house or room.
(informal, chiefly UK, dated) A brothel.
(informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
(rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
(gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
(Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
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* 2003 , Gilbert Buchanan, Malco Polia - Traveller, Warrior ,
* 2010 , Colin McLaren, Sunflower: A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue ,
A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
In obsolete terms the difference between skill and kip
is that skill is display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address while kip is a unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.As verbs the difference between skill and kip
is that skill is to set apart; separate while kip is to sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.As nouns the difference between skill and kip
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 kip is the untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.As an adjective skill
is great, excellent.As a proper noun Kip is
a diminutive=Kipling given name.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.
Anagrams
* killsReferences
* Skel i 1000 English basic words ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Verb
(head)kip
English
Etymology 1
1325–75, (etyl) kipp, from (etyl) kip, from (etyl)Alternative forms
* kipp, kippe, kyppeNoun
(en noun)Etymology 2
1760–70, probably related to (etyl) . From the same distant Germanic root as (cove).Noun
(en noun)- I’m just going for my afternoon kip .
Verb
(kipp)- Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.
Synonyms
* crash (US)Etymology 3
1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from (kilo) + (pound).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
1950–55, from (etyl) . (Lao kip)Etymology 5
Unknown. Some senses maybe related to (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 208,
- Again Turk placed the pennies on the kip'. He took his time, deliberate over the small action, held the ' kip for a long breathless moment, then jerked his wrist and the pennies were in the air.
page 52,
- Money was laid on the floor for bets on the heads'' or ''tails'' finish of two pennies tossed high into the air from a small wooden ''kip .
page 101,
- Jack discarded a length of wood, two twists of wire, his two-up kip and a spanner.
