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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Skil

English answer:

Skil is a name....

Added to glossary by Rahi Moosavi
Jun 13, 2004 10:45
19 yrs ago
English term

Skil

Homework / test English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering
Exact context:

When cutting timber with a skil or chop saw use a dust bag or extraction
unit.

What's a Skil?
Responses
5 +2 Skil is a name....
4 +6 skill saw or chop saw
5 +1 basic woodworking tool
4 +2 skil or skilsaw (usually writen as one word)
5 jigsaw

Responses

+2
25 mins
Selected

Skil is a name....

of a company which produces all manner of hand tools (yes, including jig-saws), so it cannot be translated, but it does leave open the TYPE of "Skil" saw one should use. Logically, of course, one would definitely NOT use a jig-saw to cut timber....

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Note added at 27 mins (2004-06-13 11:12:41 GMT)
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Try this site for size:
www.skil.com/homepage.htm
Peer comment(s):
neutral Rowan Morrell : You may well, be right, but in the text a small S is used - if they mean the brand name, wouldn't they say Skil and not skil?
6 mins
Rowan, IMO, it's all Lombard Street to a China orange that the writer isn't even aware he's using a trade name - nor are the few "small s" entries in google. It's not YET that common a term to have achieved acceptance as an "ordinary" word.
neutral Gareth McMillan : It's a circular saw, David and it is a totally normal everyday term amomg joiners, carpenters, chippies- anyone who works with saws. Believe me.
51 mins
agree David Russi : You gave the fiirst correct anser David, definitely a compan name. Skil must not be well known outside the US, where the brand has become a household word.
3 hrs
agree Jörgen Slet : Skil is a *very* common brand outside US, in fact I thought it was a Swedish brand
19 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks !"
+6
7 mins

skill saw or chop saw

I think "skil" is a typo; it should be "skill saw" (though a Google search does seem to reveal "skil saw" and even "skilsaw" variants!). The meaning here is "skill saw or chop saw", but to avoid repetition, the one instance of the word saw has been sawn off, so to speak.

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Note added at 8 mins (2004-06-13 10:53:45 GMT)
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Edith may well be right, but because \"skil\" is spelt with a small \"s\", I don\'t think \"skill saw\" can be ruled out.
Reference:

http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22skill+saw%22&meta=

Peer comment(s):
agree Edith Kelly
4 mins
Thanks Edith.
agree Rajan Chopra
10 mins
Thanks langclinic.
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
41 mins
Thanks Vicky.
agree nlingua
1 hr
Thanks nlingua.
neutral Julie Roy : Both spellings are valid. (Termium)
3 hrs
OK, thanks for that, Julie.
agree Milena Sahakian : has anyone seen the picture of skil saw I've already mentioned - http://www.savvyhomeadvice.com/glossary/tool3.htm
7 hrs
Thanks Milena.
agree trautlady
1 day 10 hrs
Thanks trautlady.
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15 mins

jigsaw

See http://www.skil.com/Help With Tools/Help With Tools Sub Page...

for all the explanation you could possibly want...
Peer comment(s):
neutral David Moore (X) : ...but not for timber....
11 mins
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+1
23 mins

basic woodworking tool

Check first link. There is a picture too. I think this is what are you asking about.

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Note added at 33 mins (2004-06-13 11:18:16 GMT)
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skil saw

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Note added at 46 mins (2004-06-13 11:31:56 GMT)
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skil saw

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Note added at 56 mins (2004-06-13 11:41:28 GMT)
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skil saw
Reference:

http://www.savvyhomeadvice.com/glossary/tool3.htm

http://www.yourwebassistant.net/glossary/s13.htm#skil_saw

Peer comment(s):
agree trautlady
1 day 10 hrs
Thank you, trautlady.
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+2
42 mins

skil or skilsaw (usually writen as one word)

Skil is the name of a world famous high quality manufacturer of hand held circular saws.
Because they were first to successfully bring this type of tool on the market, it has become a household word.
In the same way as the word hoover (the original manufacturer's name) became a household word for a vacuum cleaner.

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Note added at 45 mins (2004-06-13 11:30:29 GMT)
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p.s. I normally don\'t help with questions from a test translation, but this is a very difficult one unless you happen to know it from personal experience. Good luck with the rest of it.

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Note added at 1 hr 16 mins (2004-06-13 12:01:17 GMT)
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If I may clarify after David\'s comment:

By \"household name/word\", I of course don\'t mean every household knows what a skilsaw is.

But just as every household knows what a hoover is, so does every woodworker kow what a skilsaw is, if you get my drift.

Anyway, that\'s all a bit academic- the word is skil or skilsaw and it doesn\'t get translated IMO because it is an accepted term in it\'s own right.


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Note added at 1 hr 35 mins (2004-06-13 12:20:45 GMT)
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David, would you please stop changing your peer comments you\'re making me dizzy. Thanks, pal.
Peer comment(s):
neutral David Moore (X) : I still think you're way ahead of the field here, Gareth; I'd never heard of them until just....
45 mins
David, if you never heard of them until just.......why the 100% confidence level in your answer. I've got one on my garage, but I still don't use 100%- never do.
agree jerrie : 'having one in your garage' cuts it for me ;-)
48 mins
You must visit my garage sometime- I've got some nice WW II jerrie cans in there too.
agree Julie Roy : Yes, TERMIUM gives "skill saw", "skillsaw", "Skil saw " and "Skill saw ". They also concur with this explanation. So do my French Canadian lumberjack grandpa and uncle. :-)
3 hrs
Many thanks Julie. That's a hell of an argument.
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