'CRAFT' definitions:
Definition of 'craft'
(from WordNet)
noun
The skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice" [syn: trade, craft]
noun
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
noun
People who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade" [syn: craft, trade]
noun
Skill in an occupation or trade [syn: craft, craftsmanship, workmanship]
noun
Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness]
verb
Make by hand and with much skill; "The artisan crafted a complicated tool"
Definition of 'Craft'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade. [1913 Webster]
- Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. --Acts xix. 25. [1913 Webster]
- A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers. [1913 Webster]
- The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft. --Hobbes. [1913 Webster]
- The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. --Mark xiv. 1. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Naut.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense. [1913 Webster]
- The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster]
- Small crafts, small vessels, as sloops, schooners, ets. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Craft'
From: GCIDE
- Craft \Craft\, v. t. To play tricks; to practice artifice. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- You have crafted fair. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'craft'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Italian hand,
- 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
Acronyms for 'craft'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Cray Research Adaptive FORTRAN (Cray, MPP, FORTRAN)