Skill vs. Experience — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Skill and Experience
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Definitions
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.
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.
Skill➦
Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience
Painted with great skill.
Experience➦
The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind
A child's first experience of snow.
Skill➦
A developed talent or ability
Improved his writing skills.
Experience➦
Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill
A lesson taught by experience.
A carpenter with experience in roof repair.
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Skill➦
An art, trade, or technique, particularly one requiring use of the hands or body
The skill of glassmaking.
Experience➦
The knowledge or skill so derived.
Skill➦
(Obsolete) A reason; a cause.
Experience➦
An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
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.
Experience➦
The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.
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Skill➦
(obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
Experience➦
To participate in personally; undergo
Experience a great adventure.
Experienced loneliness.
Skill➦
(obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
Experience➦
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.
It was an experience he would not soon forget.
Skill➦
(obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
Experience➦
(countable) An activity one has performed.
Skill➦
Great, excellent.
Experience➦
(countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
Skill➦
(transitive) To set apart; separate.
Experience➦
(uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
Skill➦
To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
Experience➦
Trial; a test or experiment.
Skill➦
To know; to understand.
Experience➦
(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.
Skill➦
(intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
Experience➦
Trial, as a test or experiment.
She caused him to make experienceUpon wild beasts.
Skill➦
(intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
Experience➦
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.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.
Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.
Skill➦
To make a difference; signify; matter.
Experience➦
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.
Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.
Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment.
Skill➦
(video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
Experience➦
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.
The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India.
Skill➦
Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
For great skill is, he prove that he wrought.
Experience➦
To exercise; to train by practice.
The youthful sailors thus with early careTheir arms experience, and for sea prepare.
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.
Experience➦
The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities;
A man of experience
Experience is the best teacher
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.
Experience➦
The content of direct observation or participation in an event;
He had a religious experience
He recalled the experience vividly
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.
Experience➦
An event as apprehended;
A surprising experience
That painful experience certainly got our attention
Skill➦
Any particular art.
Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful.
Experience➦
Go or live through;
We had many trials to go through
He saw action in Viet Nam
Skill➦
To know; to understand.
To skill the arts of expressing our mind.
Experience➦
Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations;
I know the feeling!
Have you ever known hunger?
I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict
The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare
I lived through two divorces
Skill➦
To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.
I can not skill of these thy ways.
Experience➦
Of mental or physical states or experiences;
Get an idea
Experience vertigo
Get nauseous
Undergo a strange sensation
The chemical undergoes a sudden change
The fluid undergoes shear
Receive injuries
Have a feeling
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.
Experience➦
Undergo an emotional sensation;
She felt resentful
He felt regret
Skill➦
An ability that has been acquired by training
Experience➦
Undergo;
The stocks had a fast run-up
Skill➦
Ability to produce solutions in some problem domain;
The skill of a well-trained boxer
The sweet science of pugilism
