What's the difference between elude and skill?

Elude


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bill allows Obama to claim another major piece of legislation to put alongside the economic stimulus bill passed last year, which stands comparison with Roosevelt's New Deal, and the healthcare bill earlier this year, which achieved a goal that had eluded previous presidents.
  • (2) The decision prompted Human Rights Watch to warn that he should not be allowed "to elude serious legal proceedings against him".
  • (3) Whether these two sera specifically affect sperm-zona pellucida binding or non-specifically affect the normal progression of capacitation remains to be eludicated.
  • (4) When Kristine Minde eluded Claire Rafferty at the far post she was well placed to meet Solveig Gulbrandsen’s long diagonal ball.
  • (5) This was a distinction that eluded the broadcaster Alan Jones on Wednesday when he was accused by an Abbott government minister of running a “racist” scare campaign about foreign ownership of Australian farmland.
  • (6) Such anomalous conditions occurring either alone or in combination elude diagnosis and pose problems for management.
  • (7) It is suggested that all patients suffering from the K-T syndrome should be examined by Doppler ultrasound in the hope that microfistulas which elude radiodiagnostic techniques might be detected and treated surgically.
  • (8) This disease eludes all known forms of therapy and results in edentulousness after only a few years.
  • (9) The phenomenon of antigenic shifts may make it possible for the bacteria to elude antibodies.
  • (10) The GABA-receptor at the Ascaris muscle cell which mediates a membrane hyperpolarization and muscle relaxation has eluded classification.
  • (11) Finally, the article demonstrates practical and efficient methods of cooperation between neurologists and the referring chiropractic physician that has eluded these professions for almost a century.
  • (12) It was the year when we saw predators for who they really are, even if justice eludes them.
  • (13) The pros and cons of the various B-scan modes are discussed, and the preferences of the combination of the linear scan and the arc scan is eludicated with experimental results.
  • (14) Could you have imagined at the start of your career that a league title would elude you?
  • (15) 9.32pm GMT 79 mins: A long Houston ball eludes Driver.
  • (16) The one major medal Pirlo lacks for club or country has eluded him.
  • (17) Nonetheless, she has dealt with these online critics with the kind of grace that eludes people older and allegedly more rational than her (well, HELLO there, Richard Dawkins!)
  • (18) Even classic tragedy on the Oscar Wilde scale eluded him.
  • (19) His inswinging ball eluded Winston Reid at the front post but found Antonio, whose stooping header came off his marker Deeney and past the bewildered Heurelho Gomes.
  • (20) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.

Skill


Definition:

  • (n.) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
  • (n.) Knowledge; understanding.
  • (n.) The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc.
  • (n.) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
  • (n.) Any particular art.
  • (v. t.) To know; to understand.
  • (v. i.) To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.
  • (v. i.) To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (2) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (3) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
  • (4) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
  • (5) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (6) The skill of the surgeon was not a significant factor in maternal deaths.
  • (7) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (8) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
  • (9) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
  • (10) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
  • (11) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
  • (12) A teaching package is described for teaching interview skills to large blocks of medical students whilst on their psychiatric attachment.
  • (13) The intervention represented, for the intervention team, an opportunity to learn community organization and community education skills through active participation in the community.
  • (14) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
  • (15) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
  • (16) To not use those skills would be like Gigi Buffon not using his enormous hands.
  • (17) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
  • (18) The functional role of corticocortical input projecting to the motor cortex in learning motor skills was investigated by training 3 cats with and without the projection area.
  • (19) Gauging the proper end point of methohexital administration is accomplished through skilled observation of the patient.
  • (20) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.