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Meaning of skill in English
(Definition of skill from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
skill | American Dictionary
skillful
adjective us
/ˈskɪl·fəl/
Kraft was a skillful composer.
skillfully
adverb us
/ˈskɪl·fə·li/
Some students are unable to use dictionaries skillfully.
skill | Business English
skill
noun
WORKPLACE, HR uk
/skɪl/ us
business/specialist skills A growing part of the charity's work is providing business skills to developing economies.
leadership/management/organizational skills
analytical/practical/technical skills
apply/use skills
He brings his considerable skill and expertise to the role.
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Examples of skill
skill
The skill of the orchestration is such that the closing fanfare, that makes the loudest noise in the score, involves a mere 12 players.
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Research into semantic skills focuses less on the qualitative aspects of linguistic competence than does research into phonological and morphosyntactic skills.
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It is this affective and evaluative progress that teachers might try to develop in pupils in order to develop their skills of musical thinking further.
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When physical capital is complementary with human capital in production, returns on and the demand for skills rise with capital intensity.
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And we can consider possible roles for computers in helping students acquire these necessary skills.
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Other representations concerned with technical, cognitive and musical skills may be acquired concurrently.
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The exercise of a technical skill requires a very narrow sort of judgment, which identifies an end and applies well-defined techniques towards its realization.
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The inter-personal skills of the teacher also influence teaching effectiveness.
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Nevertheless, teaching team building and communication skills requires an opportunity to practice these skills in vivo in the educational setting.
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Chapters discuss the nature, forms and functions of argument and its role in teaching and learning; several provide ideas for developing the skills of argument.
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By teaching useful strategies in the four skill areas, students will have the ability and confidence needed to decode the target language.
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Besides knowledge, he must have the pedagogical skills for teaching the language.
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To replicate simultaneously individual pitches or short melodic patterns after an auditory stimulus involves fewer synthesis skills and requires less self-monitoring over time.
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The recent theoretical literature attributes the increased education premium of the last decades to skill-biased technological progress.
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They consider that this is a useful basis for helping students to improve their language skills.
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Collocations with skill
skill
These are words often used in combination with skill.
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academic skill
Furthermore, only the academic skill intervention yielded effects that maintained for a year posttreatment.
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acting skill
But virtually all critics acknowledged his acting skill, as well as the overwhelming power of his sound and his clarion high notes.
adaptive skills
In early human development two comparable adaptive skills emerge: the abilities to identify and label emotion cues in expressive behavior and in various contexts.
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Translations of skill
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कौशल्य…
技術, 熟練, 腕前…
beceri, hüner, marifet…
habileté [feminine], adresse [feminine], talent [masculine]…
destresa, habilitat…
bedrevenheid, vaardigheid…
ஒரு செயல்பாடு அல்லது வேலையைச் சிறப்பாகச் செய்வதற்கான திறன், குறிப்பாக நீங்கள் அதைப் பயிற்சி செய்ததால்…
(किसी कार्य को बढ़िया तरह से करने का) कौशल, योग्यता…
કૌશલ્ય…
færdighed, dygtighed…
skicklighet, färdighet…
kemahiran…
das Geschick, die Kenntnis…
dyktighet [masculine], ferdighet [masculine], dyktighet…
مہارت…
вправність, спритність, майстерність…
умение, мастерство…
నైపుణ్యం…
مَهارة…
দক্ষতা…
obratnost, dovednost…
keahlian, ketrampilan…
ฝีมือ, ความเชี่ยวชาญ…
sự khéo léo, sự tinh xảo, kĩ năng…
umiejętność, wprawa, sztuka…
기술…
abilità, bravura, mestiere…
