Skill vs Magic - 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 use of rituals or actions, especially based on supernatural or occult knowledge, to manipulate or obtain information about the natural world, especially when seen as falling outside the realm of religion; also the forces allegedly drawn on for such practices.
*c. 1489 , (William Caxton), Foure Sonnes of Aymon :
*:And whan he shall be arrayed as I telle you / lete hym thenne doo his incantacyons & his magyke as he wyll […].
*1781 , (Edward Gibbon), Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , II.23:
*:The arts of magic and divination were strictly prohibited.
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 23:
*:Conversions to the new religion […] have frequently been assisted by the view of converts that they are acquiring not just a means of otherworldly salvation, but a new and more powerful magic .
A specific ritual or procedure associated with supernatural magic or with mysticism; a spell.
Something producing remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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, chapter=1 A conjuring trick or illusion performed to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.
Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic; wonderful, amazing.
Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
(colloquial) Great; excellent.
(physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
To produce, transform (something), (as if) by magic.
As a verb skill
is to set apart; separate.As a noun 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 an adjective skill
is (uk|slang) great, excellent.As a proper noun magic is
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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)magic
English
Alternative forms
* magick (qualifier) Used as a deliberate archaism; used for supernatural magic, as distinguished from stage magic. * magicke (obsolete) * magique (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
Synonyms
* (allegedly supernatural method to dominate natural forces) dwimmer, thaumaturgy, conjuring, sorcery, witchcraft, dweomercraft/dwimmercraft * (illusion performed to give the appearance of magic or the supernatural) sleight of hand, illusionism, legerdemain, dwimmerAdjective
(-)- a magic''' wand; a '''magic dragon
- a magic moment
- a magic''' show; a '''magic trick
- — I cleaned up the flat while you were out. — Really? Magic !