What is "proficiency"

Usage examples of "proficiency".

But he was years away from mastering the technique, years away from proficiency in anything but the rudiments of the perfection that was Sinanju.

He might be one of the youngest Keepers to hold sole power over a major Tower, but his proficiency was beyond question.

Darren Ditillo, a seasoned space traveler with proficiency in astrometric analysis.

The Babylonians and Assyrians attained to a high degree of proficiency in brickmaking, notably in the manufacture of bricks having a coating of coloured glaze or enamel, which they largely used for wall decoration.

India he laboured indefatigably at the vernaculars, and his reward was an astonishingly rapid proficiency in Gujarati, Marathi, Hindustani, as well as Persian and Arabic.

There was an old tradition that the students of necromancy or the black art, on reaching a certain pitch of proficiency, were obliged to run through a subterranean hall, where the devil literally caught the hindmost unless he sped so swiftly that the arch enemy could only seize his shadow, and in that case, a veritable Peter Schlemihl, he never cast a shadow afterwards!

The proficiency of the voice linguists was limited at best, but they had a tape recorder attached to the monitoring equipment and could save the conversations for later analysis.

So we have provided an interpreter, a young lad who has considerable proficiency in Náhuatl (which is what these Aztecs call their guttural language of lengthy and unlovely words).

Some practiced their various combat proficiencies: barehand, sword, club, garrote, and so on.

For since it is not continency alone that Thou hast enjoined upon us, that is, from what things to hold back our love, but righteousness also, that is, upon what to bestow it, and hast wished us to love not Thee only, but also our neighbour, 884 -often, when gratified by intelligent praise, I appear to myself to be gratified by the proficiency or towardliness of my neighbour, and again to be sorry for evil in him when I hear him dispraise either that which he understands not, or is good.

Even in the pursuits which, by the custom of Christendom, are especially their own, women seldom show any of that elaborately conventionalized and half automatic proficiency which is the pride and boast of most men.

Never before had Earle allowed himself to indulge his full proficiency, and this would have been a delight even had he not done it in the company of a lovely giant amazon.

At the end of two weeks Roger Stone announced himself satisfied with Pollux's proficiency in analytical geometry.

It had been so long since he'd flown anything that he had lost his proficiency rating, so he would have to requalify for pilot's status, much less a captain's chair, but even a trainer would be more fun than flying a desk.

Bregno was prolific, had taste, proficiency in the classical style, and was good at carving decorative reliefs.