(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.
Virtuosity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or aesthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism.
(n.) Virtuosos, collectively.
(n.) An art or study affected by virtuosos.
Example Sentences:
(1) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
(2) Yet, through the final third of the 20th century, rheumy-eyed, scarred and bent-nosed ancients would shake their heads at his virtuosities, sigh, and insist that the big, bold champions of their far tougher olden days would have ambushed, cornered, speared and most damnably done for the swankpot in no time.
(3) Technical virtuosity reifies the mechanical model and widens the gap between what patients seek and doctors provide.
(4) It's a kind of multi-dimensional virtuosity that contemporary music has hardly seen before.
(5) On Thursday the fourth series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle will begin on BBC2, and the new shows feature all of Lee’s trademark virtuosity – and his equally familiar self-evisceration.
(6) It is postulated that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, with its displays of saccadic virtuosity, is the major reason for the nocturnal prevalence of such recurrent hyphemas.
(7) There are few feats of virtuosity better than his miming as he rehearses the song and as he performs a short introductory dance.
(8) One or two peevish voices thought Imlah too clever, too dustily "Oxonian", failing to see how mordantly modern many of the fables and instances in Birthmarks are, within their formal virtuosity and confidently literary bearing.
(9) But his underlying pleasantness was key to the huge success of his stand-up act, which – even when dealing with darker material such as addiction or divorce – relied more on verbal virtuosity than vitriol.
(10) The analysis presented also reveals that games that are dictated by strict rules, nevertheless offer a wide scope for creative enterprise since any game, just like, e.g., a piece of music, may be performed with great virtuosity without breaking any rules.
(11) Leaving aside the fact that there had been a 31% drop in the number of children in immigration detention in the last three months of the Labor government (excluding Nauru), if we drill down a bit we’ll discover the agenda behind the Coalition’s virtuosity.
(12) All the skill and technical virtuosity in the world will not be applied if we do not think of the disease.
(13) I was reacting to a particular dance ethos - which had always seemed to mean saying no to spectacle, to comedy or narrative, no to virtuosity.
(14) The orchestra's virtuosity of listening is miraculous: the way that each of the players knows instinctively what their role is in a gigantic Mahler symphony, when they have a solo, when they need to accompany another player, and how they need to blend in a chord.
(15) His virtuosity has lured star performers from other disciplines.
(16) It was only late in the noughties that El Sistema came to prominence in this country, thanks to the conducting virtuosity of Gustavo Dudamel and the brilliance of the Símon Bolívar Youth Orchestra, El Sistema's flagship band.
(17) But for sheer technical virtuosity the most astonishing exhibit is a 3rd-century sarcophagus, carved from a single block of stone, showing the Romans fighting the Ostrogoths.
(18) One of them was the technical virtuosity of its founder and early staff: unlike many other comparable ventures undergoing explosive growth, Facebook coped brilliantly.
(19) Some of these newer procedures reach the very limits of technical virtuosity and are extremely time consuming and will need careful appraisal before their true place in clinical gynecology is established.
(20) Austen was the first novelist with the technical virtuosity to take you into the thoughts of her characters while also letting you laugh at them.