Craft
[krɑːft] or [kræft]
Definition
(noun.) a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space.
(noun.) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception.
(noun.) skill in an occupation or trade.
(noun.) people who perform a particular kind of skilled work; 'he represented the craft of brewers'; 'as they say in the trade'.
(verb.) make by hand and with much skill; 'The artisan crafted a complicated tool'.
Edited by Kelsey--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Strength; might; secret power.
(n.) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
(n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.
(v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.
Checked by Elmer
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Skill, ability, talent, power, cleverness, dexterity, tact, aptitude, aptness, expertness, readiness.[2]. Artifice, artfulness, shrewdness, subtlety, cunning.[3]. Art, trade, employment, business.
Typist: Sophie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Art, artifice, cunning, guile, stratagem, manoeuvre, wiliness, trickery,duplicity, chicanery, intrigue, underhandedness, dodge
ANT:Openness, fairness, candor, honesty, frankness, sincerity, artlessness,ingenuousness, straightforwardness
Inputed by Claude
Definition
n. cunning: artifice: dexterity: art: trade: occupation: small ships.—v.i. to exercise one's craft (Shak. Cor. IV. vi. 118).—adv. Craft′ily.—n. Craft′iness.—adj. Craft′less free from craft.—ns. Crafts′man one engaged in a craft; Crafts′manship Craft′manship; Crafts′master one skilled in a craft.—adj. Craft′y having skill: cunning: deceitful.
Edited by Linda
Examples
- His wooden conceit and craft kept exact pace with the delighted expectation of his victim. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The first night that finds a small craft moored near the shore of Shador, I replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Under the old regime all workers in a craft were approximately equals in their knowledge and outlook. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In great circles the air craft of the marauders swept lower and lower toward the defending forces of the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- We others stepped to the deck of the craft that had been sent to fetch us, and a moment later were upon the Xavarian. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Instead of telling business men not to be greedy, we should tell them to be industrial statesmen, applied scientists, and members of a craft. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But how will you know that any craft is moored near Shador? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- In reality, it took its rise in the middle ages along with other incorporated crafts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If the crew laughed, the Malays did not, and when the captain of one of the proas was struck by a rocket, both crafts rested oars and came no nearer. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The theater, the museum, the crafts and the arts, games and dances--they are some of those other methods of expression which lust can seek. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The trades, the crafts, the mysteries, would all be losers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Checker: Vernon