(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.
Workmanlike
Definition:
(a.) Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
Example Sentences:
(1) And, even if the phrase "independence generation" is one that Salmond has used before, in his peroration (see 3.48pm) Salmond finally achieved a gear-change from workmanlike to inspiring.
(2) The authors also found that individuals who are radicalised by a sense of grievance “can be steady, planful and workmanlike – as indeed many lone-wolf attackers seem to have been”.
(3) "Who would they rather face in the final; a struggling, workmanlike team with a new manager, with little or no flair and who struggle to score goals, or Sunderland?"
(4) In retail folklore, middle-class southerners carry the orange rosette that is a Sainsbury’s bag for life, while a bootful of heavy duty Tesco carriers points to a more workmanlike existence.
(5) What we need in these news cellphone cases is for those five justices to join together and show that constitutional vision is more than just the workmanlike competence of lawyers.
(6) There were other signs of rising stress at the halfway point, when the workmanlike calm of the first three days gave way to heated exchanges during a stock-taking session.
(7) The fluid, creative and attacking 82 team – which also included Falcão, Cerezo, Júnior and Sócrates ("a brilliant man who was tragically unable to apply his intelligence to dealing with his own problems", according to Zico) – won plaudits for their style of play, but came in the midst of a 24-year World Cup trophy drought for Brazil that only ended when the national side – long since minus Zico – adopted a lower-risk and more workmanlike approach in the US in 1994.
(8) You may never have seen Breakfast at Tiffany's, an entertaining movie directed by the workmanlike Blake Edwards.
(9) Here he designed his brilliantly workmanlike typefaces for Monotype, typically throwing his reservations about machine production to the winds.
(10) Moments of skill from Totti livened a workmanlike performance.
(11) To be truly "sensible and workmanlike", the budget needs to contain five elements.
(12) It will be thrilled to get a majority in the Welsh assembly (though there, as in Scotland, Labour politics is depressingly workmanlike).
(13) MacTiernan said she believed McGowan – who had a “workmanlike” style – would win the election but had “absolutely no chance” if the party was not united.
(14) This has been his special skill in the second half of a picaresque 23-job managerial career after an early ascent built on sturdy, workmanlike success.
(15) Whether the calmer and more workmanlike mood translates into substantive progress or weak ambition will be clearer at the end of the week.
(16) But what followed from there is more instructive: a disastrous Asian Cup campaign, the neurosis and McCarthy-like paranoia of the Graham Arnold years, and a string of workmanlike qualification performances leading up to the first day disaster of the 2010 defeat to Germany.
(17) With his workmanlike attitude, and his pleasure in a job well done, you sometimes wonder how he didn't end up as a builder or engineer.
(18) My guess is that we'll see a more workmanlike performance from Team USA, who may already be looking ahead to Monday's game against Argentina.
(19) He thinks voters would be more impressed by a budget that he promises will be "sensible and workmanlike".
(20) It feels to me that Del Posto holds its two stars more for the glossy, dark wood, country-club-meets-ocean-liner surroundings than for the workmanlike food.