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
- I believe the craft is the most important element in any artist's work, and
- For some time I sat upon a bench, what she called a craft table, and waited with other scraps of this and that.
- This craft is the first of its kind, and will require an almost windless day to successfully cross the channel.
- That's the term craft brewers use for regular American lagers, because the only time they would drink them is after mowing the lawn.
- More of a marketing slogan than a brewing style, the term craft brewery was chosen to replace micro-brewery just as the segment began to grow six or seven years ago.
- Throughout the previous part of the world's history art and craft have been one and the same, at the utmost distinguishable only from a different point of view: _craft_ from the practical side, _art_ from the contemplative.
- For many people the phrase "craft and design" might conjure up images of hand-thrown porcelain tableware, avant-garde jewelry, studio furniture and "fiber art," and indeed the art fairs, museums and galleries that focus on contemporary craft and design present quite a lot of this kind of work.
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