orientation vs skill

orientation

noun
  • The ability to orient, or the process of so doing. 

  • The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end. 

  • The determination of the relative position of something or someone. 

  • Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school. 

  • The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space. 

  • The relative physical position or direction of something. 

  • An adjustment to a new environment. 

  • The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait. 

  • The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented (or "nonorientable"); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface. 

  • An introduction to a (new) environment. 

  • An inclination, tendency or direction. 

skill

noun
  • Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate. 

verb
  • To know; to understand. 

  • To have knowledge or comprehension; discern. 

  • To set apart; separate. 

  • To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to). 

  • To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous. 

  • To spend acquired points in exchange for skills. 

adj
  • Great, excellent. 

How often have the words orientation and skill occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )