craft

craft
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noun
1 activity needing skill with your hands
ADJECTIVE
▪ skilled
▪

Sheep shearing is a highly skilled craft.

▪ ancient, traditional
▪ country, local, rural
VERB + CRAFT
▪ practise/practice
▪

The men practised various traditional crafts.

CRAFT + NOUN
▪ activity, project, work
▪ industry
▪ worker
▪ centre/center, exhibition, fair, show, workshop
▪ shop (esp. BrE), store (esp. AmE)
▪ skill
▪ tradition
▪ guild, union
▪ foam, glue (AmE), knife
PHRASES
▪ art and craft
▪

Subjects taught include art and craft, drama, and languages.

▪ arts and crafts
▪

The gallery has major exhibitions of arts and crafts.

2 all the skills needed for an activity
VERB + CRAFT
▪ hone, learn, master, perfect, study
▪

It took her years to perfect her craft.

▪ ply (esp. AmE)
▪

comedians plying their craft for an agency

PHRASES
▪ a master of your craft
▪

a carpenter who is a real master of his craft

3 boat
ADJECTIVE
▪ small
▪ assault, fishing, landing, patrol, pleasure, river, sailing
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verb
Craft is used with these nouns as the object: ↑movie, ↑prose, ↑thriller

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  • 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • craft´i|ly — craft|y «KRAF tee, KRAHF », adjective, craft|i|er, craft|i|est. 1. skillful in deceiving others; sly; tricky: »a crafty villain. The crafty fox lured the rabbit from its hole …   Useful english dictionary

  • craft|y — «KRAF tee, KRAHF », adjective, craft|i|er, craft|i|est. 1. skillful in deceiving others; sly; tricky: »a crafty villain. The crafty fox lured the rabbit from its hole …   Useful english dictionary

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