Skill vs Principle - What's the difference?
skill | principle |
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 )
A fundamental assumption.
* {{quote-web, date=2011-07-20, author=Edwin Mares, site=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, title=
, accessdate = 2012-07-15}}
A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
(usually, in the plural) Moral rule or aspect.
(physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
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, title= A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
* Gregory
(obsolete) A beginning.
* (Edmund Spenser)
A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
* Tillotson
An original faculty or endowment.
* Stewart
To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
* L'Estrange
* Locke
In transitive terms the difference between skill and principle
is that skill is to know; to understand while principle is to equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.In obsolete terms the difference between skill and principle
is that skill is display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address while principle is a beginning.As an adjective skill
is great, excellent.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)principle
English
Noun
(en noun)Propositional Functions
- Let us consider ‘my dog is asleep on the floor’ again. Frege thinks that this sentence can be analyzed in various different ways. Instead of treating it as expressing the application of __ is asleep on the floor'' to ''my dog'', we can think of it as expressing the application of the concept
''my dog is asleep on __''
to the object
''the floor''
(see Frege 1919). Frege recognizes what is now a commonplace in the logical analysis of natural language. ''We can attribute more than one logical form to a single sentence . Let us call this the principle of multiple analyses . Frege does not claim that the principle always holds, but as we shall see, modern type theory does claim this.
Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles , attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
- Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna.
- Doubting sad end of principle unsound.
- The soul of man is an active principle .
- those active principles whose direct and ultimate object is the communication either of enjoyment or suffering
Usage notes
Principle is always a noun ("moral rule"), but it is often confused with (principal), which can be an adjective ("most important") or a noun ("school principal"). Consult both definitions if in doubt. Incorrect usage: * He is the principle musician in the band * She worked ten years as school principle A mnemonic to avoid this confusion is "The principal'' alphabetic ''principle'' places ''A'' before ''E ".Synonyms
* (moral rule or aspect) tenetDerived terms
* agreement in principle * anthropic principle * Aufbau principle * Bernoulli's principle * correspondence principle * cosmological principle * Dilbert principle * dormitive principle * equivalence principle * extractive principle * first principles * Huygens' principle * IBM Pollyanna Principle * Le Chatelier's principle * Mach's principle * matter of principle * Matthew principle * Mitchell principle * on principle * Pareto principle * Pauli exclusion principle * Peter principle * pigeonhole principle * precautionary principle * principle of least action * principle of substitutivity * principled stance * programming principle * reciprocity principle * strong equivalence principle * superposition principle * uncertainty principle * verifiability principleVerb
- Governors should be well principled .
- Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.