CRAFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does craft mean? 

• CRAFT (noun)
  The noun CRAFT has 5 senses:

1. the skilled practice of a practical occupation

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

4. skill in an occupation or trade

5. shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

  Familiarity information: CRAFT used as a noun is common.

• CRAFT (verb)
  The verb CRAFT has 1 sense:

1. make by hand and with much skill

  Familiarity information: CRAFT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The skilled practice of a practical occupation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

craft; trade

Context example:

he learned his trade as an apprentice

Hypernyms ("craft" is a kind of...):

business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "craft"):

auto mechanics (the craft of building and repairing automobiles)

wine making; winemaking (the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine)

upholstery (the craft of upholstering)

undertaking (the trade of a funeral director)

typography (the craft of composing type and printing from it)

tanning (making leather from rawhide)

mintage (act or process of minting coins)

handicraft (a craft that requires skillful hands)

tool-and-die work (the craft of making special tools and dies)

tailoring (the occupation of a tailor)

shingling (the laying on of shingles)

sheet-metal work (the craft of doing sheet metal work (as in ventilation systems))

roofing (the craft of a roofer)

cobbling; shoe repairing; shoemaking (the shoemaker's trade)

pyrotechnics; pyrotechny (the craft of making fireworks)

plumbery; plumbing (the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building))

airplane mechanics (the craft of building and repairing airplanes)

basketry (the craft of basket making)

carpentry; woodwork; woodworking (the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood)

drafting; mechanical drawing (the craft of drawing blueprints)

dressmaking (the craft of making dresses)

electrical work (the craft of an electrician)

interior decorating; interior decoration (the trade or act of decorating the interior of a building or room, especially with regard to color combination, paint, fabrics, carpeting, etc.)

masonry (the craft of a mason)

oculism (the craft of an oculist)

house painting; painting (the occupation of a house painter)

papermaking (the craft of making paper)

pilotage; piloting (the occupation of a pilot)

pottery (the craft of making earthenware)

lumbering (the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber)

Derivation:

craft (make by hand and with much skill)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("craft" is a kind of...):

vehicle (a conveyance that transports people or objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "craft"):

ballistic capsule; space vehicle; spacecraft (a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun)

vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)

landing craft (naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment)

ground-effect machine; hovercraft (a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines)

aircraft (a vehicle that can fly)

Sense 3

Meaning:

People who perform a particular kind of skilled work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

craft; trade

Context example:

as they say in the trade

Hypernyms ("craft" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Derivation:

craft (make by hand and with much skill)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Skill in an occupation or trade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

craft; craftsmanship; workmanship

Hypernyms ("craft" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; acquirement; acquisition; attainment; skill (an ability that has been acquired by training)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "craft"):

housecraft (skill in domestic management)

priestcraft (the skills involved in the work of a priest)

stagecraft (skill in writing or staging plays)

tradecraft (skill acquired through experience in a trade; often used to discuss skill in espionage)

watercraft (skill in the management of boats)

woodcraft (skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood)

Derivation:

craft (make by hand and with much skill)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

craft; craftiness; cunning; foxiness; guile; slyness; wiliness

Hypernyms ("craft" is a kind of...):

astuteness; perspicaciousness; perspicacity; shrewdness (intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings))

Derivation:

crafty (marked by skill in deception)

• CRAFT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they craft    ... he / she / it crafts   
Past simple: crafted   
Past participle: crafted   
-ing form: crafting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make by hand and with much skill

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

The artisan crafted a complicated tool

Hypernyms (to "craft" is one way to...):

fashion; forge (make out of components (often in an improvising manner))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "craft"):

handcraft (make something by hand)

filigree (make filigree, as with a precious metal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

craft (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)

craft (skill in an occupation or trade)

craft (people who perform a particular kind of skilled work)

crafter (a creator of great skill in the manual arts)

 Context examples 

Farther from the sun than Rosetta had ever journeyed before, there would be little power to operate the craft.

(Final Descent Image from Rosetta Spacecraft, NASA)

And he was glad that Karduk came from the Great Fog Sea, where there were no trees or bushes, and where men learned water- craft instead of land-craft and wood-craft.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

There were only three—the jib, foresail, and mainsail; and, patched, shortened, and distorted, they were a ridiculously ill-fitting suit for so trim a craft as the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Cassini's mission ended in September 2017 when, low on fuel, the spacecraft was deliberately plunged into Saturn's atmosphere by the mission team, which wanted to avoid crashing the craft onto the planet's moons.

(Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn, NASA)

I could see the blur of their craft, but they were going nearly as fast as I, and they must have been a long mile from the shore before I caught them up.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Begin by learning some craft or another, and see how you can get on.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

One never knows what she has, sir: she is so cunning: it is not in mortal discretion to fathom her craft.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This includes an estimated half-a-million marble-sized pieces of junk, while other items, such as discarded rockets and disused parts of space crafts, are much larger.

(Australia Developing Lasers to Track, Destroy Space Junk, VOA)

There is no doubt that sooner or later during this period, you will become increasingly interested in crafting a bigger role for yourself.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The undertaker, true to his craft, had made the best display he could of his goods, and there was a mortuary air about the place that lowered our spirits at once.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)