noun habilitat , destresa , traça , manya , enginy technique perícia , tècnica , art his skill at billiards la seva destresa en el billar he shows no small skill demostra no poca traça we could make good use of his skill podríem fer servir la seva habilitat it's a skill that has to be acquired és una tècnica que cal aprendre
adjective skilful hàbil , destre , traçut , manyós , enginyós man qualificat , professional , especialitzat work especialitzat skilled labour mà d'obra especialitzada to be skilled in business valer per als negocis to be skilled in an art ser entès en un art
transitive verb -mm- frear , fer lliscar remove scum escumar cream descremar fat desengreixar to skim through a novel llegir una novella pel damunt intransitive verb to skim over passar a frec , rasar to skim through mirar pel damunt , fullejar , donar un cop d'ull
transitive verb mesurar , escatimar , plànyer to skimp someone for food mesurar el menjar a algú to skimp the material in making a dress plànyer-hi la roba en fer un vestit to skimp one's work potinejar / esguerrar la feina intransitive verb estalviar , economitzar tr
noun pell face cutis outer skin epidermis true skin dermis to have a thin skin figurative ser susceptible , tenir la pell molt prima to have a thick skin figurative tenir la pell dura , ser insensible by the skin of one's teeth figurative de poc , d'un pèl he's nothing but skin and bone només li queda la pell i l'os to throw its skin canviar la pell to strip to the skin despullar-se del tot to save one's skin figurative salvar la pell to come out of it with a whole skin figurative sortir-ne sa i estalvi I've got you under my skin figurative no te'm puc treure del cap Zoology…