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Difference Between Skill and Strategy

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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.

Strategy

Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the "art of the general", which included several subsets of skills including military tactics, siegecraft, logistics etc., the term came into use in the 6th century C.E. in Eastern Roman terminology, and was translated into Western vernacular languages only in the 18th century.

Skill

Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience
Painted with great skill.

Strategy

The science and art of using all the forces of a nation to execute approved plans as effectively as possible during peace or war.

Skill

A developed talent or ability
Improved his writing skills.
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Strategy

The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of large-scale combat operations.

Skill

An art, trade, or technique, particularly one requiring use of the hands or body
The skill of glassmaking.

Strategy

A plan of action resulting from strategy or intended to accomplish a specific goal.

Skill

(Obsolete) A reason; a cause.

Strategy

The art or skill of using stratagems in endeavors such as politics and business.
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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.

Strategy

The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.

Skill

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

Strategy

A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.

Skill

(obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.

Strategy

The use of advance planning to succeed in politics or business.

Skill

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

Strategy

The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

Skill

Great, excellent.

Strategy

The use of stratagem or artifice.

Skill

(transitive) To set apart; separate.

Strategy

An elaborate and systematic plan of action

Skill

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

Strategy

The branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war

Skill

To know; to understand.

Skill

(intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.

Skill

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

Skill

To make a difference; signify; matter.

Skill

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

Skill

Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
For great skill is, he prove that he wrought.

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.

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.

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.

Skill

Any particular art.
Learned in one skill, and in another kind of learning unskillful.

Skill

To know; to understand.
To skill the arts of expressing our mind.

Skill

To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.
I can not skill of these thy ways.

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

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