Definitions
skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity
Word origin
Borrowed from French technique (“technicality; branch of knowledge”), noun use of technique (“technical”), from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “of or pertaining to art, artistic, skilful”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art, handicraft”). Doublet of technic.
Used in a sentence
“Brahms, after realizing that the technique of the piano was developing along mistaken lines, and his own danger of stereotyping his style, keeps away from it for most of his middle age [...].”
“Yet those who packed concert halls to listen to him sing, as Indians did for over six decades, rarely mentioned his technique.”
“They said executives were warned about one technique nicknamed "carpet karaoke", which involved bending deportees over in aircraft seats to silence them.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Skillful method”9 letters
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