Quality vs. Skill — What's the Difference?

The standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something

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.

A distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something

Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience

Of good quality; excellent

A developed talent or ability

An inherent or distinguishing characteristic; a property

An art, trade, or technique, particularly one requiring use of the hands or body

A personal trait, especially a character trait

(Obsolete) A reason; a cause.

Essential character; nature

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

Superiority of kind

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

Degree or grade of excellence

(obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.

Investments that have a low risk of loss or default

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

High social position

Great, excellent.

Those in a high social position

(transitive) To set apart; separate.

(Music) Timbre, as determined by harmonics

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

(Linguistics) The character of a vowel sound determined by the size and shape of the oral cavity and the amount of resonance with which the sound is produced.

To know; to understand.

(Logic) The positive or negative character of a proposition.

(intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.

Having a high degree of excellence

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

(uncountable) Level of excellence.

To make a difference; signify; matter.

(countable) Something that differentiates a thing or person.

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

(archaic) Position; status; rank.

Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

(archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)

Knowledge; understanding.

(uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.

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.

(thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.

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

The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.

Any particular art.

A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.

To know; to understand.

Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality.

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

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.

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

Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.

An ability that has been acquired by training

That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman.

Ability to produce solutions in some problem domain;

An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition.

Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character.

An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone;

A degree or grade of excellence or worth;

A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something;

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);

High social status;

Of superior grade;

Of high social status;