different between feat vs proficiency

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?t/
• Homophone: feet
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman fet (“action, deed”), from Old French fait, from Latin factum, from facere (“to do, to make”). Doublet of fact.

Noun

feat (plural feats)

1. A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

Derived terms

• no small feat
• no mean feat

Translations

Adjective

feat (comparative feater, superlative featest)

1. (archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
   • 1590, Robert Greene, Greenes Mourning Garment, London: Thomas Newman, “The Shepheards Tale,” p. 17,^[2]

     […] she set downe her period on the face of Alexis, thinking he was the fairest, and the featest swaine of all the rest.

   • 1593, Thomas Lodge, Phillis, London: John Busbie, “Induction,”^[3]

     Oh you high sp’rited Paragons of witte,

     That flye to fame beyond our earthly pitch,

     Whose sence is sound, whose words are feat and fitte,

     Able to make the coyest eare to itch:

     Shroud with your mighty wings that mount so well,

     These little loues, new crept from out the shell.

   • c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act V, Scene 5,^[4]

     […] never master had

     A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,

     So tender over his occasions, true,

     So feat, so nurse-like:

   • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1,^[5]

     And look how well my garments sit upon me;

     Much feater than before:

Verb

feat (third-person singular simple present feats, present participle feating, simple past and past participle feated)

1. (obsolete) To form; to fashion.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act I, Scene 1,^[6]

     […] most praised, most loved,

     A sample to the youngest, to the more mature

     A glass that feated them, and to the graver

     A child that guided dotards;

Etymology 2

Clipping of feature. See also the abbreviation feat.

Verb

feat (third-person singular simple present feats, present participle feating, simple past and past participle feated)

1. (transitive, informal) To feature. I

Anagrams

• EFTA, Fate, TAFE, TFAE, fate, feta

English

Etymology

From Latin proficientem, from proficere.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr??fiSH?ns?, IPA^(key): /p???f???nsi/

Noun

proficiency (countable and uncountable, plural proficiencies)

1. Ability, skill, competence.

   a test of proficiency in English

   to attain (or to reach) proficiency

Synonyms

• ability
• command
• competence
• skill
• See also Thesaurus:skill

Translations

Further reading

• proficiency in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “proficiency” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.