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Skill
A skill is the ability to carry out a task with determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills. For example, in the domain of work, some general skills would include time management, teamwork and leadership, self-motivation and others, whereas domain-specific skills would be used only for a certain job. Skill usually requires certain environmental stimuli and situations to assess the level of skill being shown and used.
People need a broad range of skills to contribute to a modern economy. A joint ASTD and U.S. Department of Labor study showed that through technology, the workplace is changing, and identified 16 basic skills that employees must have to be able to change with it. Three broad categories of skills are suggested and these are technical, human, and conceptual. The first two can be substituted with hard and soft skills, respectively.
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Skill (noun)
Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
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Skill (noun)
Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
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Skill (noun)
Knowledge; understanding.
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Skill (noun)
Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
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Skill (adjective)
Great, excellent. 1980s–1990s
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Skill (verb)
To set apart; separate.
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Skill (verb)
To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
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Skill (verb)
To know; to understand.
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Skill (verb)
To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
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Skill (verb)
To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
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Skill (verb)
To make a difference; signify; matter.
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Skill (verb)
To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
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Talent (noun)
A marked natural ability or skill. from 15thc.
“He has a real talent for drawing.”
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Talent (noun)
A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East. from 9thc.
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Talent (noun)
A desire or inclination for something. 14th-16thc.
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Talent (noun)
People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person. from 19thc.
“The director searched their talent pool to fill the new opening.”
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Talent (noun)
The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness. from 20thc.
“Not much talent in this bar tonight—let’s hit the clubs.”
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Talent (noun)
natural aptitude or skill
“he possesses more talent than any other player”
“she displayed a talent for garden design”
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Talent (noun)
people possessing natural aptitude or skill
“I signed all the talent in Rome”
“Simon is a talent to watch”
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Talent (noun)
people regarded as sexually attractive or as prospective sexual partners
“most Saturday nights I have this urge to go on the hunt for new talent”
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Talent (noun)
a former weight and unit of currency, used especially by the ancient Romans and Greeks
“a mighty steed bought from a Thessalian merchant for thirteen talents”