different between skill vs reputation
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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reputation
English
Etymology
14c. "credit, good reputation", Latin reputationem (“consideration, thinking over”), noun of action from past participle stem of reputo (“reflect upon, reckon, count over”), from the prefix re- (“again”) + puto (“reckon, consider”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???pj??te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations)
- What somebody is known for.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "reputation": good, great, excellent, bad, stellar, tarnished, evil, damaged, dubious, spotless, terrible, ruined, horrible, lost, literary, corporate, global, personal, academic, scientific, posthumous, moral, artistic.
Synonyms
- name
Derived terms
- reputational
Related terms
- repute
Translations
Further reading
- reputation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- reputation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “repute” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- putoranite, tau protein
Middle French
Noun
reputation f (plural reputations)
- reputation
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