Skill vs. Adept

Skill and Adept Definitions
Skill
Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience
Painted with great skill.
Adept
Very skilled or accomplished.
Skill
A developed talent or ability
Improved his writing skills.
Adept
A highly skilled person; an expert
"political consequences in getting rid of all the skeptics, unbelievers, and adepts of rival faiths" (Gene Lyons).
Skill
An art, trade, or technique, particularly one requiring use of the hands or body
The skill of glassmaking.
Adept
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
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Skill
(Obsolete) A reason; a cause.
Adept
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient
Adepts in philosophy
Skill
Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
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.
Adept
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
Skill
(obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
Adept
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
Beaus adept in everything profound.
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Skill
(obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
Adept
Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Skill
(obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
Adept
Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;
Adept in handicrafts
An adept juggler
An expert job
A good mechanic
A practiced marksman
A proficient engineer
A lesser-known but no less skillful composer
The effect was achieved by skillful retouching
Skill
Great, excellent.
Skill
(transitive) To set apart; separate.
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Skill
To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
Skill
To know; to understand.
Skill
(intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
Skill
(intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
Skill
To make a difference; signify; matter.
Skill
(video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
Skill
Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
For great skill is, he prove that he wrought.
Skill
Knowledge; understanding.
That by his fellowship he color mightBoth his estate and love from skill of any wight.
Nor want we skill or art.
Skill
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.
Phocion, . . . by his great wisdom and skill at negotiations, diverted Alexander from the conquest of Athens.
Where patience her sweet skill imparts.
Skill
Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
Richard . . . by a thousand princely skills, gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return.
Skill
Any particular art.
Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful.
Skill
To know; to understand.
To skill the arts of expressing our mind.
Skill
To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.
I can not skill of these thy ways.
Skill
To make a difference; to signify; to matter; - used impersonally.
What skills it, if a bag of stones or goldAbout thy neck do drown thee?
It skills not talking of it.
Skill
An ability that has been acquired by training
Skill
Ability to produce solutions in some problem domain;
The skill of a well-trained boxer
The sweet science of pugilism