craft
IPA: krˈæft
noun
- (uncountable, obsolete) Strength; power; might; force .
- (uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.
- Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
- Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .
- (obsolete) Occult art, magic .
- (countable, obsolete in the general sense) A work or product of art .
- (collective or plural) Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .
- (countable, obsolete) A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
- (countable, obsolete) Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
- (uncountable) Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
- (countable, plural crafts) A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
- (countable) A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
- (countable, plural craft) A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
- (nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.
- (nautical, British Royal Navy) Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
- (figurative) A woman.
- (countable, fishing) Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .
- A surname.
verb
- To make by hand and with much skill.
- To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
- (video games) To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.
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Examples of "craft" in Sentences
- He is a craft bastard.
- She makes crafts such as tapestry.
- Bravo to the crafters and their craft.
- The craft and commerce are flourishing.
- Building a ship is a highly skilled craft.
- Pottery seems more like a craft than an art.
- The better crafted the criteria, the better.
- But their right craft is of the partridge and of the quail.
- Ease in any art is the result of mastery over the details of the craft.
- His knowledge of and skill in lithography stimulated interest in the craft.