technique

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A particular way of doing something that needs skill or knowledge.

   The teacher showed us a simple technique for remembering new words.

2. 2
   noun

   A person's practical skill in an activity, gained through practice.

   Her singing technique improved after years of training.

Common collocations

• master a technique Verb + noun

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.

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