skillとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English skill, skille (also schil, schile), from 古期英語 scille and Old Norse skil (“a distinction, discernment, knowledge”), from Proto-Germanic *skilją (“separation, limit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Danish skel (“a separation, boundary, divide”), Swedish skäl (“reason”), Dutch verschil (“difference”) and schillen (“to separate the outer layer (schil) from the product”, verb).

別の表記

• skil (廃れた用法)

名詞

skill (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 skills)

1. Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.

   Synonyms: ability, talent; see also Thesaurus:skill

   Where did you pick up that skill?

   With great skill, she navigated through the tricky passage.

   Doing that coaching course not only taught me useful skills on the field, but also some important life skills.

   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i], page 45:

     I have heard the French-man hath good skill in his rapier.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:

     Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

   • 2013 November 26, Simon Hoggart, “Araucaria's last puzzle: crossword master dies”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 189, number 26, page 43:

     The skill was not in creating a grid full of words, but in producing clues cryptic enough to baffle the puzzler, yet constructed so honestly that they could be solved by any intelligent person who knew the conventions.

2. (obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Hackett, 2006, Canto I, Stanza 54, lines 1-5, p. 21,

     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;

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene 7,^[2]

     Methinks I should know you, and know this man;

     Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant

     What place this is; and all the skill I have

     Remembers not these garments; nor I know not

     Where I did lodge last night. […]

3. (obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III, Hackett, 2006, Canto III, Stanza 45, lines 4-5, p. 62,

     And Howell Dha shall goodly well indew

     The salvage minds with skill of just and trew;

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II,^[3]

     […] This desert soil

     Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold;

     Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise

     Magnificence […]

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

     'I kenna whatna man ye are,' he says, 'but ye have the skill of lassies' hearts. Tell me truly, is there no way to win her to common love?'

4. (obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Book III, Chapter VI,^{[4], [5]}

     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.

派生語

• soft skill

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