SKILLS

"SKILLS" is a plural of: skill.

Date "SKILLS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: SKILLS

There are certain skills best acquired in public bars, I suppose (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the Forcebut by our skills with a lightsaber (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

I didn't pick you because of your legal skills you know (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison)

Well I hope so because if that was an undecided we need to work on our people skills. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

I'm proud that I have taught you all the necessary skills in life (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson)

And his skills has since decreased, and the inner hunger ceased (Deception; performing artist: Blackalicious)

The flow pro poetical with skills only (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Skills Build America (1973)

Teaching Kids Job Skills (1940)

Michael Owen's Soccer Skills (1999)

Life Skills (1997)

Marine Corps Combat Leadership Skills (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Dinghy Sailing: The Skills of the Game (reference)

• Winning Professionally and Personally: How to Use Easy and Successful Skills to Dramatically Improve Your Leadership, Team building and Communication with Groups and Individuals (reference)

• 104 Activities That Build: Self-esteem, Teamwork, Communication, Anger Management, Self-discovery, and Coping Skills (reference)

• Anti-Discriminatory Counselling Practice (Professional Skills for Counsellors Series, 261) (reference)

• The Complete Book of Long-Distance Cycling: Build the Strength, Skills, and Confidence to Ride As Far As You Want (reference)

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Periodicals

• Globecon Newsletter : Skills & Applications (reference)

• Basic Skills (reference)

• Perceptual & Motor Skills (reference)

• Basic Skills In Interpreting Laboratory Data (reference)

• Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Winning Soccer Skills Vol.1 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Listening Skills Program (reference)

• Skills (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Fabulous Fub Family Social Skills Storybook (reference)

• Fun & Skills Pack Toddler 2.0 (reference)

• Everything Sales Skills Single Mkt/sales/goals/e-comm (reference)

• How To Master PC Software Skills (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

STAN, short for "standard man," is a life-like computer-controlled casualty simulator used for training Air Force nurses in a variety of disaster response and wartime skills. (Courtesy photo).

Law Enforcement Ranger using his EMT skills on a victim in the Imperial Sand Dunes. Credit: Lori Cook.

In China today, the ancient skills of acupuncture are practiced in combination with modern medical methods. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..

Unloading special skills furniture, Fairfield Bench Farms, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Submarine chasers. Shipwrights preserve many hand skills. Brace and bit are needed to fit coamings to machine gun wings just aft of the wheelhouse of a wooden subchaser under construction in an Eastern boatyard. Marine Construction Company, St. Credit: Library of Congress.

Special Skills Division, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Modeling. Special Skills Division, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Weaving. Special Skills Division, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Pope making special skills bed. Irwinville Farms, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

He's home : with maturity, ambition, skills. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Try new hobbies and learn new skills. (references)

Language skills or speech are delayed. (references)

Emphasizes coping skills and support groups. (references)

Business

Equipment often has a short life cycle and skills are expensive. (references)

Tests were performed for literacy, numeracy and life skills tasks. (references)

Again, the emphasis lies also on developing managerial skills in this field. (references)

Children

Chad

Several local NGO's provide skills training to the deaf and blind. (references)

Jamaica

The Possibilities Program includes a care center, a resocializing center, and a skills center. (references)

Sierra Leone

Such programs involve reconstructive surgery, prostheses, and vocational training to help them acquire new work skills. (references)

Civil Liberties

Papua New Guinea

The Government has a policy of limited integration for Irian Jayans with certain skills or other qualifications. (references)

Iran

Some citizens, particularly those whose skills are in short supply and who were educated at government expense, had to post bonds to obtain exit permits. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

Management expertise and marketing skills are also in short supply. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

Efforts have improved to assign officers that speak an indigenous language to a town where their skills can be put to use. (references)

Lebanon

Inmates at Roumieh prison participated in vocational activities, such as computer training courses, to provide them with skills upon release. (references)

Armenia

Reportedly individuals choose to defend themselves in court because they have little respect for a defense attorney's professional skills and ethics. (references)

Minorities

Switzerland

Some claimed that the family's German language skills were not sufficient for citizenship. (references)

China

Originally designed to protect and maintain minority cultures, this divided education system places those graduating from minority schools at a disadvantage in competing for jobs in Government and business, which require good Chinese-language skills. (references)

Croatia

Protective of their culture and reluctant to assimilate, Roma faced a host of obstacles, including language (many, especially women, have only limited Croatian language skills), lack of education, lack of citizenship and identity documents, high unemployment, societal discrimination, and lack of government will to address such issues. (references)

Political Economy

AUSTRALIA

The industry development component of the new ESA requires evidence of product development, investment in capital equipment, skills development and service support, and souring services and product components, parts and/or input locally. (references)

Trade

Morocco

The reform program also calls for upgrading staff skills through on-the-job training and short-term courses. (references)

Ukraine

It will accelerate the rate of growth of the industrial sector by restructuring of the privatized and new private enterprises and by upgrading management and technical skills. (references)

Travel

Philippines

Foreign technicians, however, can enter on this basis only if they possess skills not available in the Philippines. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

In the case of skilled employment, permission is granted only if personnel with comparable skills are not locally available. (references)

Italy

Work permit approval must first be obtained by the Italian employer and is usually granted only for specialized work or skills. (references)

Women

Saint Kitts and Nevis

It operated three programs for rural women, providing them market skills and training as entrepreneurs. (references)

Nepal

These NGO's work in the areas of literacy, small business, skills transfer, and prevention of trafficking in women and girls. (references)

China

Of those millions, a disproportionate percentage are women, many of whom do not have the skills or opportunities to find new jobs. (references)

Worker Rights

Samoa

Wages in the private sector are determined by competitive demand for the required skills. (references)

Romania

Children forced out of orphanages between the ages of 16 and 18 often have no identity documents, very little education, and few, if any job skills. (references)

Mauritius

In October 2000, the Minister for Training Skills Development and Productivity reported that there were 24,292 foreign workers in the country, of whom 20,081 worked in the textile sector. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "SKILLS": apply one's skills ♦ communication skills ♦ life skills ♦ management skills ♦ marketing skills ♦ Motor Skills ♦ Motor Skills Disorders ♦ motoring skills ♦ soft skills ♦ teaching skills. Additional references.

Beginning with "SKILLS": skills-based, skills-centred, skills-culture, skills-levels, skills-oriented, skills--ranging, skills-training, skills-updating.

Ending with "SKILLS": life-skills, sub-skills.

Danish

visse umiddelbart anvendelige faerdigheder (specific skills of immediate utility), mundtlig udtryksfaerdighed (verbal ability, verbal skills). (various references)

Dutch

kwalificatie (ability, qualification). (various references)

French

qualifications, capacités. (various references)

German

Geschicke (aptnesses), Geschick (aptness, cunning, deftness, destiny, expertise, fate, finesse, fortune, handicraft, handiness, knack, luck, nimbleness, skill, skillfulness, swankiness). (various references)

Greek 

ικανότητες (abilities). (various references)

Hungarian

szakértelem (competence, competency, cunning, expertise, know how, know-how, proficiency, skill). (various references)

Italian

sistema di gestione delle competenze (system for managing skills), singole specializzazioni di immediata utilità (specific skills of immediate utility), repertorio delle competenze, capacità e conoscenze specialistiche nel settore dell'antiterrorismo (Directory of specialized counter-terrorist competences, skills and expertise), capacità di espressione orale (verbal ability, verbal skills). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

芸域 (range of skills), 練功 (feats of practice, skills acquired through hard training), 凡手 (mediocre ability, person of ordinary skills), 専門技術 (expertise, special skills), 奥の手 (last resort, left hand, mystery, secret, secret skills, trump card, upper hand), スキャンロン方式 (child-rearing with frequent physical contact, door-to-door condom sales-lady, reskilling, Scanlon plan, school, school bus, school color, school zone, schooling, schoolmate, schooner, scoop, scooter, scramble, scramble race, scrambled eggs, scrap, scrap and build, scrapbook, scratch, scratch hit, scratch match, scratch noise, scratch player, scratch race, scrub, scrum, scrum half, scrummage, scuba, scuba diving, self-contained under-water breathing apparatus, skill, skillful, skills inventory system, skin, skin care, skin cream, skin diver, skin diving, skin food, skinheads, square, square dance, square neckline, square stance, squeeze, squeeze bunt, squeeze play, squid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おくのて (last resort, left hand, mystery, secret, secret skills, trump card, upper hand), ぼんしゅ (mediocre ability, person of ordinary skills), せんもんぎじゅつ (expertise, special skills), れんこう (extending in a row, feats of practice, Japanese Confederation of Labor, lateral league of six states, skills acquired through hard training, taking, wrought steel), スキルインベントリーシステム (skills inventory system), げいいき (range of skills). (various references)

Pig Latin

illsskay.(various references)

Portuguese

sistema de gestão das competências (system for managing skills), tecnologia de mercadologia (marketing skills), repertório de competências,técnicas e conhecimentos específicos em matéria de luta contra o terrorismo (Directory of specialized counter-terrorist competences, skills and expertise). (various references)

Russian 

способность;навык. (various references)

Spanish

facultades (abilities), calificaciones (qualifications). (various references)

Swedish

skicklighet (address, adroitness, aptitude, art, artifice, capability, cleverness, cunning, deftness, dexterity, expertise, expertness, faculty, fineness, ingenuity, knack, proficiency, prowess, savoir faire, skill). (various references)

Turkish

becerisini kullanmak (apply one's skills). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "SKILLS": subskills. (additional references)

Misspellings

"SKILLS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scalls, Siklos, skells, skels, skial, skil, skiln, skils, skrill. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: kills, silks, sills, skill.

-2 letters: ilks, ills, kill, kiss, silk, sill, skis.

-3 letters: ilk, ill, lis, sis, ski.

-4 letters: is, li, si.

+2 letters: skilless, skillets, subskill.

+3 letters: alkalises, alkalosis, selamliks, skillings, subskills.

+4 letters: blacklists, hawksbills, kindlessly, silkalines, silkolines, spillikins, stickballs, storksbill.

+5 letters: folklorists, killifishes, kilopascals, klebsiellas, likableness, semiskilled, storksbills.