skil

Noun

skill (countable and uncountable, plural skills)

1. A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
   • Where did you pick up that skill?

   Synonyms:

   ability

2. (artificial intelligence) A reusable configuration (prompt) that defines how an AI agent performs a specific task.
3. (obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
   • 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;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, , stanzas 1-5, page 54
4. (obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
   • And Howell Dha shall goodly well indew
     The salvage minds with skill of just and trew;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, , stanzas 4-5, page 45
5. (obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
   • 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, “Richard of England and Philip of France Set Forward to the Holy Land; the Danger of the Interviews of Princes”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […]...

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