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Craft - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Craft : (noun)
1: the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned
his trade as an apprentice" [syn: trade]
2: a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or
through outer space
3: people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he
represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the
trade" [syn: trade]
4: skill in an occupation or trade [syn: craftsmanship, workmanship]
5: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
[syn: craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness,
wiliness]
(verb)
1: make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a
complicated tool"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Craft : \Craft\, v. t.
To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.]
You have crafted fair. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Craft : \Craft\ (kr[.a]ft), n. [AS. cr[ae]ft strength, skill, art,
cunning; akin to OS., G., Sw., & Dan. kraft strength, D.
kracht, Icel. kraptr; perh. originally, a drawing together,
stretching, from the root of E. cramp.]
1. Strength; might; secret power. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment;
hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a
trade.
Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
--Acts xix.
25.
A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill
or craft of making. --B. Jonson.
Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and
nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in
repute. --Longfellow.
3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild;
as, the craft of ironmongers.
The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds
to the new craft guilds. --J. R. Green.
4. Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad
purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to
effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.
You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft.
--Hobbes.
The chief priets and the scribes sought how they
might take him by craft, and put him to death.
--Mark xiv. 1.
5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used
in a collective sense.
The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving
over the lake. --Prof.
Wilson.
Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Craft : Cray Research Adaptive FORTRAN (Cray, MPP, FORTRAN)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Craft |
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