craft
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
craft
n 1: the skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned
his trade as an apprentice" [syn: {trade}, {craft}]
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: {craft}, {trade}]
4: skill in an occupation or trade [syn: {craft},
{craftsmanship}, {workmanship}]
5: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
[syn: {craft}, {craftiness}, {cunning}, {foxiness}, {guile},
{slyness}, {wiliness}]
v 1: make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a
complicated tool"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment;
hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a
trade.
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Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
--Acts xix.
25.
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A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill
or craft of making. --B. Jonson.
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Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and
nations,
Has the craft of the smith been held in repute.
--Longfellow.
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3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild;
as, the craft of ironmongers.
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The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds
to the new craft guilds. --J. R. Green.
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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.
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You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft.
--Hobbes.
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The chief priests and the scribes sought how they
might take him by craft, and put him to death.
--Mark xiv. 1.
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5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used
in a collective sense.
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The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving
over the lake. --Prof.
Wilson.
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{Small crafts}, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
230 Moby Thesaurus words for "craft":
Italian hand, ability, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness,
aeroplane, aircraft, airmanship, animal cunning, argosy, art,
artful dodge, artfulness, artifice, artisan work, artisanship,
artistry, astuteness, bark, blind, boat, bottom, bravura,
brilliance, bucket, business, cageyness, callidity, calling,
canniness, capability, capacity, career, career building,
careerism, chicanery, cleverness, command, competence, conspiracy,
contrivance, control, coordination, coup, craftiness,
craftsmanship, craftwork, cunning, cunningness, cute trick, deceit,
deceitfulness, deftness, design, device, deviousness, dexterity,
dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, dodge, duplicity,
efficiency, expedient, expertise, expertness, fabricate, facility,
fakement, falseheartedness, falseness, fashion, feint, fetch,
fine Italian hand, finesse, flair, foxiness, fraud, furtiveness,
gambit, game, gamesmanship, genius, gimmick, grace, grift, grip,
guile, guilefulness, handicraft, handiness, handiwork, hooker,
horsemanship, hovercraft, hulk, hull, hypocrisy, indirection,
industrial art, industrial design, ingeniousness, ingenuity,
insidiousness, intrigue, inventiveness, job, jugglery, keel,
knavery, know-how, leviathan, lifework, line, line of business,
line of work, little game, low cunning, make, maneuver, manual art,
marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mechanics, mechanism,
metalcraft, method, metier, mission, move, mystery, number,
occupation, one-upmanship, packet, pawkiness, plane, plot, ploy,
practical ability, practice, profession, proficiency, prowess,
pursuit, quickness, racket, readiness, red herring, resource,
resourcefulness, rocket, ruse, satanic cunning, savoir-faire,
savvy, scheme, science, seamanship, sharpness, shift, shiftiness,
ship, shrewdness, skill, skillfulness, sleight, slickness,
slipperiness, slyness, sneak attack, sneakiness, sophistry,
spacecraft, spaceship, specialization, specialty, stealth,
stealthiness, stonecraft, stratagem, strategy, style, subterfuge,
subtility, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness,
surreptitiousness, tact, tactfulness, tactic, talent, technic,
technical brilliance, technical know-how, technical knowledge,
technical mastery, technical skill, technics, technique,
technology, timing, trade, treacherousness, trick, trickery,
trickiness, tub, underhandedness, vessel, virtuosity, vocation,
walk, walk of life, wariness, watercraft, wile, wiles, wiliness,
wily device, wit, wizardry, woodcraft, work, workmanship
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