Skill vs. Intelligence — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Skill and Intelligence
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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.
Intelligence➦
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Skill➦
A developed talent or ability
Improved his writing skills.
Intelligence➦
The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge
A person of extraordinary intelligence.
Skill➦
Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience
Painted with great skill.
Intelligence➦
Information, especially secret information gathered about an actual or potential enemy or adversary.
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Skill➦
An art, trade, or technique, particularly one requiring use of the hands or body
The skill of glassmaking.
Intelligence➦
The gathering of such information
"Corporate intelligence relies on a slew of tools, some sophisticated, many quite basic" (Neil King and Jess Bravin).
Skill➦
(Obsolete) A reason; a cause.
Intelligence➦
An agency or organization whose purpose is to gather such information
An officer from military intelligence.
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.
Intelligence➦
An intelligent, incorporeal being, especially an angel.
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Skill➦
(obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
Intelligence➦
Of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.
Skill➦
(obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
Intelligence➦
The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
Skill➦
(obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
Intelligence➦
(countable) An entity that has such capacities.
Skill➦
Great, excellent.
Intelligence➦
, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.
Skill➦
(transitive) To set apart; separate.
Intelligence➦
(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
Skill➦
To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
Intelligence➦
(dated) acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
Skill➦
To know; to understand.
Intelligence➦
The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
Skill➦
(intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
Intelligence➦
The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
And dimmed with darkness their intelligence.
Skill➦
(intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
Intelligence➦
Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
Intelligence is given where you are hid.
Skill➦
To make a difference; signify; matter.
Intelligence➦
Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites.
Skill➦
(video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.
Intelligence➦
Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
I write as he that none intelligenceOf meters hath, ne flowers of sentence.
Skill➦
Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
For great skill is, he prove that he wrought.
Intelligence➦
An intelligent being or spirit; - generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.
The great Intelligences fairThat range above our mortal state,In circle round the blessed gate,Received and gave him welcome there.
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.
Intelligence➦
The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.
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.
Intelligence➦
The ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
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.
Intelligence➦
A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy
Skill➦
Any particular art.
Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful.
Intelligence➦
Secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy);
We sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage
Skill➦
To know; to understand.
To skill the arts of expressing our mind.
Intelligence➦
New information about specific and timely events;
They awaited news of the outcome
Skill➦
To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.
I can not skill of these thy ways.
Intelligence➦
The operation of gathering information about an enemy
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.
Skill➦
An ability that has been acquired by training
Skill➦
Ability to produce solutions in some problem domain;
The skill of a well-trained boxer
The sweet science of pugilism
