mechanical skill

collocation in English

meaningsofmechanicalandskill

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mechanical
adjective
uk
/məˈkæn.ɪ.kəl/us
/məˈkæn.ɪ.kəl/
operated by a machine, or connected with machines or ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk
/skɪl/us
/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofmechanicalandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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His control of its movements seems to go beyond themechanicalskillacquired through long years of discipline.
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Music engendered ambivalent feelings about whether it was an intellectual ormechanicalskill, and there was a huge gap between amateur and professional status.
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Not only was their mental horizon extended, but many of them acquired considerable technical andmechanicalskillin specialist occupations such as wireless telegraphy.
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During the last 120 years, owing to inventive genius andmechanicalskill, we have solved the problem of production.
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It seems to me that it may reduce reliance on science, onmechanicalskill, and on enterprise.
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Otherwise, there will be the acquisition of amechanicalskilland no real understanding of why that skill must be used.
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I am convinced that the bestmechanicalskilland brains will be brought to bear upon the construction of 534.
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As a rule, they possessmechanicalskill, and they excel in writing and drawing.
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Because of their inherentmechanicalskill, they are employed in the tea factories, automobile workshops and defence engineering.
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Rather than focusing on reading as amechanicalskill, it is taught as an ongoing part of every student's existing language and life experience.
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Neild developed greatmechanicalskill, and also learned to engrave, model, and draw, as well as to fence.
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His manipulative andmechanicalskillwas shown both in his modes of operating, and in the new instruments he devised.
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He develops a certainmechanicalskillover time.
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Whitehead did not possess sufficientmechanicalskilland equipment to build a successful motor. 2.
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No person can learn law, medicine, mechanical skills, etc. to perform all of these with an adequate degree of competence.
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Permanent fortifications are erected at leisure, with all the resources that a state can supply of constructive andmechanicalskill, and are built of enduring materials.
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We are not producing people with certain mechanical skills.
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At one end it will be necessary to train in the mechanical skills and dexterities.
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Unfortunately, they have learned the mechanical skills of driving rather than how to anticipate problems.
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