Skill vs. Characteristic — What's the Difference?

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.

Typical of a particular person, place, or thing

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

A feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them

A developed talent or ability

The whole number or integral part of a logarithm, which gives the order of magnitude of the original number.

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

Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive

(Obsolete) A reason; a cause.

A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.

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

(Mathematics) The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa

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

(Mathematics) The least number of times the multiplicative identity in a ring needs to be added to itself to reach the additive identity, or, if the additive identity is never reached, zero. The integers have a characteristic of zero; the integers modulo 12 have a characteristic of 12.

(obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

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

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

Great, excellent.

(mathematics) The integer part of a logarithm.

(transitive) To set apart; separate.

(nautical) The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).

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

For a given field or ring, a natural number that is either the smallest positive number n such that n instances of the multiplicative identity (1) summed together yield the additive identity (0) or, if no such number exists, the number 0.

To know; to understand.

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.

(intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.

A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.

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

The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.

To make a difference; signify; matter.

A prominent aspect of something;

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

A distinguishing quality

Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.

The integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

Knowledge; understanding.

Any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions

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.

Typical or distinctive;

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

Any particular art.

To know; to understand.

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

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

An ability that has been acquired by training

Ability to produce solutions in some problem domain;