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单词 skilled
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skilledadj.

/skɪld/
Forms: Also 1500s skild.
Etymology: < skill n.1 + -ed suffix2.
1.
a. Of persons: Possessed of skill or knowledge; properly trained or experienced.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective]
prettyOE
hagherc1175
slyc1175
skilful1338
cunning1382
subtlec1390
subtilea1393
appertise1484
sleighta1513
practicatec1550
skilled1552
right-sided1575
canny1628
skilly1768
Oorlam1881
heads up1913
shit-hot1942
multi-skill1970
1552 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) at Calleo To be well skilled in the law.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. ii. 91 Gentlemen, well skil'd in Musicke. View more context for this quotation
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. ii. 127 The parts of the Egyptian learning, in which the Scripture tells us Moses was skill'd.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 291 The Persians are skill'd..to shoot flying.
1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xv. 31 And Sthenelus, in Battle skill'd; Or skill'd to guide with steady Rein..his Chariot.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 148 More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 44 We are..skilled, both in active and sedentary recreations.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 76 Sarsfield..was little skilled in the administration of war, and was still less skilled in civil business.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 114 Some hand Skilled to bend the bow.
b. In attributive use. (Now common.)
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [adjective] > having a trade or craft
craftiousc1443
traded1605
skilled1843
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 484/2 An unusual influx of skilled labourers into any employment.
1856 E. A. Bond Russia at Close of 16th Cent. Introd. 18 Furnishing him with warlike ammunition and with skilled engineers.
1857 J. W. Donaldson Christian Orthodoxy 436 A general designation of professional or skilled workmen.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 475 Every physician and every skilled artist does all things for the sake of the whole.
2. Of work: Requiring or showing skill.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective] > displaying or requiring skill
well-doneeOE
craftyOE
craftful?c1335
craftsmanlike1547
skilfulc1595
artist1603
skilled1776
knowing1793
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 124 The policy of Europe considers the labour of all mechanicks, artificers, and manufacturers, as skilled labour. View more context for this quotation
1860 J. S. Mill Represent. Govt. 91 Every branch of public administration is a skilled business.
1876 A. S. Murray Mythol. (1877) iii. 43 He..seems more the patient god of skilled metal-working.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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