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performance
English
Alternative forms
- performaunce (obsolete)
Etymology
perform +? -ance
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?r-fôr?-m?ns, IPA(key): /p??.?f??.m?ns/
- (UK) IPA(key): [p?.?f??.m?ns]
- (US) IPA(key): [p?.?f??.m?ns]
- Hyphenation: per?for?mance
Noun
performance (countable and uncountable, plural performances)
- The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
- That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
- (art) A live show or concert.
- The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
- (linguistics) The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. w:linguistic performance.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "performance": high, poor, improved, superior, excellent, good, peak, top, optimal, low, economic, academic, financial, musical, human, environmental, vocal, cognitive, dynamic, organizational, historical, physical, social, mechanical, electrical, mental, macroeconomic.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- high-performance
- low-performance
- performance art
Related terms
- performant
Descendants
Translations
References
- performance at OneLook Dictionary Search
- performance in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- performance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Etymology
From English performance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /per?f?rm?ns/
Noun
performance f (plural performances)
- performance (a live show or concert)
Further reading
- “performance” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
References
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English performance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.f??.m??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
performance f (plural performances)
- (sports) performance
Further reading
- “performance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English performance.
Noun
performance f (invariable)
- performance
Synonyms
- (the act of performing) esecuzione
- (accomplishment) prestazione, rendimento
- (show) esibizione
Further reading
- performance in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- perfórmance (uncommon)
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pe?.?f??.m??.si/
Etymology
Borrowed from English performance.
Noun
performance f (plural performances)
- performance (amount of useful work accomplished by someone or something)
- Synonym: desempenho
Further reading
- “performance” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English performance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe??fo?mans/, [pe??fo?.mãns]
Noun
performance f (plural performances)
- performance art
- performance (amount of useful work accomplished)
Further reading
- “performance” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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skill
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from Old English scille and Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *skilj? (“separation, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skel (“a separation, boundary, divide”), Swedish skäl (“reason”), Dutch verschil (“difference”) and schillen (“to separate the outer layer (schil) from the product”, verb).
Alternative forms
- skil (obsolete)
Noun
skill (countable and uncountable, plural skills)
- Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
- Synonyms: ability, talent; see also Thesaurus:skill
- (obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Hackett, 2006, Canto I, Stanza 54, lines 1-5, p. 21,
- Him so I sought, and so at last I fownd
- Where him that witch had thralled to her will,
- In chaines of lust and lewde desyres ybownd
- And so transformed from his former skill,
- That me he knew not, nether his owne ill;
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene 7,[2]
- Methinks I should know you, and know this man;
- Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant
- What place this is; and all the skill I have
- Remembers not these garments; nor I know not
- Where I did lodge last night. […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Hackett, 2006, Canto I, Stanza 54, lines 1-5, p. 21,
- (obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III, Hackett, 2006, Canto III, Stanza 45, lines 4-5, p. 62,
- And Howell Dha shall goodly well indew
- The salvage minds with skill of just and trew;
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II,[3]
- […] This desert soil
- Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold;
- Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise
- Magnificence […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III, Hackett, 2006, Canto III, Stanza 45, lines 4-5, p. 62,
- (obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Book III, Chapter VI,[4], [5]
- Richard was well stored with men, the bones, and quickly got money, the sinews of warre; by a thousand princely skills gathering so much coin as if he meant not to return, because looking back would unbowe his resolution.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Book III, Chapter VI,[4], [5]
Derived terms
- soft skill
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
skill (comparative skiller, superlative skillest)
- (Britain, slang) Great, excellent. [1980s–1990s]
- 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.
- 1987, Teresa Maughan, Letters (in Your Sinclair issue 18, June 1987)
Etymology 2
From Middle English skilen (also schillen), partly from Old English scylian, scielian (“to separate, part, divide off”); and partly from Old Norse skilja (“to divide, separate”); both from Proto-Germanic *skil?n?, *skiljan? (“to divide, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skille (“to separate, discard”), Swedish skilja (“to distinguish, differentiate, part”), Icelandic skilja (“to understand”), Low German schelen (“to make a difference; to be squint-eyed”), Dutch schelen (“to make a difference”).
Verb
skill (third-person singular simple present skills, present participle skilling, simple past and past participle skilled)
- (transitive) To set apart; separate.
- (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
- 1633, George Herbert, “Justice,” in The Temple,[6]
- I cannot skill of these Thy ways […]
- 1633, George Herbert, “Justice,” in The Temple,[6]
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England, rare) To know; to understand.
- 1613, Breadalbane Letters and Documents
- As for the virginals I have none here that skill of them, except the young lord.
- 17th century, Isaac Barrow, “On Industry in Our Particular Calling as Scholars,”
- […] to skill the arts of expressing our mind and imparting our conceptions with advantage, so as to instruct or persuade others […]
- 1613, Breadalbane Letters and Documents
- (intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
- (intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
- (intransitive, archaic) To make a difference; signify; matter.
- 1592, Richard Turnbull, An Exposition upon the Canonicall Epistle of Saint Jude, London: John Windet, Sermon 5, p. 67,[7]
- So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not […]
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act V, Scene 1,[8]
- […] I should have given’t you to-day morning, but as a madman’s epistles are no gospels, so it skills not much when they are delivered.
- 1633, George Herbert, “The Church Porch,” in The Temple,[9]
- What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold
- About thy neck do drown thee?
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 42,[10]
- But it skills not talking of it.
- 1592, Richard Turnbull, An Exposition upon the Canonicall Epistle of Saint Jude, London: John Windet, Sermon 5, p. 67,[7]
- (video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
Synonyms
- (separate): split (call management systems)
References
- Skel i “skill” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Anagrams
- Kills, kills
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
skill
- imperative of skille
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