(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.
Specialty
Definition:
(n.) Particularity.
(n.) A particular or peculiar case.
(n.) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
(n.) That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(2) Neuroradiology, originally developed through invasive techniques arising out of cooperation between radiology and neurosurgery, has today become a specialty which, thanks to its new non-invasive methods, can provide much information about diseases of the nervous system.
(3) The indices are based on patient-level data so they can be aggregated at any level (hospital, specialty, physician), are easy to use and interpret by hospitals, and provide an inexpensive method for evaluating hospital performance using existing databases.
(4) The panel stressed that students be taught strategies for obtaining the training necessary for postgraduate entry into a specialty area such as early intervention.
(5) The authors constructed personality profiles for the students who had chosen each of these seven specialty groupings, on the basis of t-tests and discriminant function analyses, and discuss these profiles and their associations with the students' specialty choices in the context of earlier research.
(6) An adequate mechanism to implement recertification can emerge only from the profession itself, working through the American Board of Medical Specialties and specialty boards.
(7) The authors discuss the appropriateness of teaching clinical pharmacology (CP) to fourth-year students, lectures in CP to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year students in accordance with the study of the main clinical specialties (therapy, surgery, pediatrics, etc.
(8) The HMO and fee-for-service plans had similar prevalence of psychiatric disorder and similar access to specialty mental health care.
(9) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
(10) This paper examines the types of coping strategies used by two groups of persistent pain sufferers: one from a family practice clinic and the other from a specialty pain clinic.
(11) Because emergency medicine is a broad-based specialty, there is much leeway in the structure of resident education.
(12) A theoretical basis and an organizing framework are needed in this specialty field in order to assure that we are providing comprehensive and holistic care.
(13) For the decision involving adjuvant chemotherapy, specialty, hospital size, and presence of radiotherapy equipment on site were important predictors.
(14) To empower these nurses to respond effectively, it is imperative that the profession be reclarified as a specialty with a distinct philosophy and mission.
(15) The majority of nurses entering the specialty of rehabilitation have little or no previous rehabilitation experience.
(16) Results of questionnaire survey of 275 physicians of major clinical specialties are provided in regard to 26 aspects of medical expertise.
(17) Since the first use of lasers in ophthalmology in the early 1960s, applications for the medical laser have been found in many medical specialties.
(18) The parents should not be expected to be the "brokers" for various specialty services.
(19) Two services were identified, in which an increased LOS represented a difference in the practice patterns of physicians in these specialties, in comparison with those of other physicians in this area.
(20) Urologists were found to work short hours relative to other surgical specialties, and their operative work load ranked sixth among the ten surgical specialties.