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value | skill |

As verbs the difference between value and skill

is that value is while 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.

value

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , passage=United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.}}
  • The degree of importance given to something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}
  • The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
  • * M'Culloch
    • An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value .
  • * Dryden
    • His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
  • (arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
  • * Joe Hing Lowe
    • I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, mediumand light.
  • Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
  • Precise meaning; import.
    • the value''' of a word; the '''value of a legal instrument
    (Mitford)
  • (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
    • (Dryden)
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.
  • (obsolete) valour; also spelled valew
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (quality that renders something desirable) worth

    Derived terms

    * valuable * valueless * valueness * economic value * face value * note value * par value * time value

    Verb

    (valu)
  • To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
  • To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
  • To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
  • To hold dear.

    • Synonyms

    * appreciate * assess * esteem * prise, prize * rate * respect * treasure * valuate * worthen

    Antonyms

    * disesteem * disrespect

    See also

    * value system

    Statistics

    *

    External links

    * * *

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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)