Skill vs. Experience

Skillnoun

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

Skillnoun

(obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

Skillnoun

(obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.

Skillnoun

(obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.

Skilladjective

Great, excellent.

Skillverb

(transitive) To set apart; separate.

Skillverb

To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).

Skillverb

To know; to understand.

Skillverb

(intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.

Skillverb

(intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.

Skillverb

To make a difference; signify; matter.

Skillverb

(video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.

Skillnoun

Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

Skillnoun

Knowledge; understanding.

Skillnoun

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.

Skillnoun

Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.

Skillnoun

Any particular art.

Skillverb

To know; to understand.

Skillverb

To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.

Skillverb

To make a difference; to signify; to matter; - used impersonally.

Skillnoun

an ability that has been acquired by training

Skillnoun

ability to produce solutions in some problem domain;

Skill

A skill is the learned ability to perform an action with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills.

Experiencenoun

Event(s) of which one is cognizant.

Experiencenoun

(countable) An activity one has performed.

Experiencenoun

(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.

Experiencenoun

(uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.

Experienceverb

(transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

Experiencenoun

Trial, as a test or experiment.

Experiencenoun

The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

Experiencenoun

An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

Experienceverb

To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.

Experienceverb

To exercise; to train by practice.

Experiencenoun

the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities;

Experiencenoun

the content of direct observation or participation in an event;

Experiencenoun

an event as apprehended;

Experienceverb

go or live through;

Experienceverb

have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations;

Experienceverb

of mental or physical states or experiences;

Experienceverb

undergo an emotional sensation;

Experienceverb

undergo;

Experience

Experience is the process through which conscious organisms perceive the world around them. Experiences can be accompanied by active awareness on the part of the person having the experience, although they need not be.