craft
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
crafts
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
transport
video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *krafjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *kraftuz
Proto-West Germanic *kraftu
Old English cræft
Middle English craft
English craft
Inherited from Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength, skill”), from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz (“strength, power”); further origin obscure.
Cognate with Dutch kracht (“strength, power, force”), German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish kraft (“strength, power, force”), Faroese and Icelandic kraftur (“strength”).
Inflected forms:
form: craft
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crafts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crafting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crafted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crafted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Strength; power; might; force .
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: By the craft of nature.
gloss: Intellectual power; skill; art.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Cyclôpes were Brontês, Steropês, and Argês,—formidable persons, equally distinguished for strength and for manual craft […]
England should have had enough against a very ordinary Russia to complete the job but Rooney's removal robbed them of his craft and guidance and now increases the pressure on Thursday's meeting with Wales in Lens.
gloss: Intellectual power; skill; art.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]and the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
[…] you have that Crooked Wisdome, which is called Craft […]
We have not the strength with which to fight this man; we must dissimulate, and win, if win we can, by craft.
gloss: Intellectual power; skill; art.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A work or product of art .
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
gloss: A work or product of art .
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
obsolete
plural
uncountable
examples: [Canton] has a large export trade in hand-made crafts, ivory and furniture.
gloss: A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
examples: For your entente I shall a craft devise […] That ye shall haue your purpose euery dele.
gloss: Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
examples: […] Þe seuen craftes all he can […]
gloss: Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The craft of writing plays.
A poem […] is the work of the poet; the end and fruit of his labour and study. Poesy is his skill or craft of making; the very fiction itself, the reason or form of the work.
It is counted […] good workmanship in a Joyner, to have the craft of bearing his hand so curiously even, the whole length of a long Board.
gloss: A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural
examples: The carpenter's craft.
He learned his craft as an apprentice.
[…] For since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, / Has the craft of the smith been held in repute by the people.
Fond as William was of the craft of the woods, he was the least likely of all men to let his sport stand in the way of his interest.
The great preachers were masters of their craft.
This was billed as the battle between Kane and his Poland opposite number Lewandowski but this was a game where it was possible to simply enjoy two masters of their craft at work.
gloss: A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She represented the craft of brewers.
gloss: A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Thanks to British designer Ross Kemp, the world has been graced with a solar-powered watercraft that costs just a third of the price of your average powered water craft.
gloss: A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Quite near could also be seen several ancient wooden warships, and always a variety of craft slipping up and down the tideway.
gloss: A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
pos: noun
tags: British-Royal-Navy
countable
uncountable
gloss: A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.
gloss: Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: And whereas the continual Interruption of the Courſe and Paſſage of the Fiſh up the Rivers, by the daily drawing of Seins and other Fiſh-Craft, tends to prevent their Increaſe,[…]
The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship.
From the mate’s boat they removed, at his direction, all whaling gear and craft except the oars and a single lance.
[…]Temple, a negro of New Bedford, who made ‘whalecraft’, that is, was a blacksmith engaged in working from iron the special utensils or ‘craft’ of the whaling trade.
The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above.
gloss: To make by hand and with much skill.
pos: verb
gloss: To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
pos: verb
examples: state crafting; the process of crafting global policing
gloss: To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.
pos: verb
Derived words: craftable
crafter
uncrafted
undercraft
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: արհեստ
roman: arhest
lang: Bashkir
word: оҫталыҡ
roman: ośtalıq
lang: Bulgarian
word: ловкост
roman: lovkost
lang: Bulgarian
word: умение
roman: umenie
lang: Dutch
word: vakmanschap
lang: Finnish
word: ammattitaito
lang: Galician
word: mestría
lang: Galician
word: vértulo
lang: Galician
word: habilidade
lang: Galician
word: doén
lang: Galician
word: arxil
lang: Galician
word: xeito
lang: German
word: Handwerk
lang: Irish
word: ceardaíocht
lang: Italian
word: abilità
lang: Japanese
word: 職業
roman: shokugyō
lang: Latin
word: ars
lang: Māori
word: mahi toi
lang: Portuguese
word: habilidade
lang: Portuguese
word: perícia
lang: Russian
word: уме́ние
roman: uménije
lang: Russian
word: сноро́вка
roman: snoróvka
lang: Russian
word: иску́сство
roman: iskússtvo
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: за̀на̄т
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: obrt
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zànāt
lang: Spanish
word: pericia
lang: Turkish
word: hüner
lang: Turkish
word: beceri
lang: Turkish
word: ustalık
lang: Turkish
word: maharet
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صنعت
roman: sanʼat, zanʼat
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: هنر
roman: hüner
lang: Ukrainian
word: вмі́ння
roman: vmínnja
lang: Ukrainian
word: впра́вність
roman: vprávnistʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: майсте́рність
roman: majstérnistʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: хитрост
roman: hitrost
lang: Dutch
word: gewiekstheid
lang: Esperanto
word: ruzeco
lang: Finnish
word: viekkaus
lang: Finnish
word: oveluus
lang: French
word: ruse
lang: German
word: Schlauheit
lang: German
word: Durchtriebenheit
lang: German
word: Gerissenheit
lang: Portuguese
word: engenhosidade
lang: Russian
word: хи́трость
roman: xítrostʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: препрѐдено̄ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: preprèdenōst
lang: Turkish
word: uyanıklık
lang: Turkish
word: kurnazlık
lang: Turkish
word: zekâ
lang: Turkish
word: açıkgözlülük
lang: Turkish
word: cingözlülük
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قورنازلق
roman: kurnazlık
lang: Ukrainian
word: хи́трість
roman: xýtristʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: лука́вство
roman: lukávstvo
lang: Bulgarian
word: плавателен съд
roman: plavatelen sǎd
lang: Czech
word: plavidlo
lang: Danish
word: fartøj
lang: Dutch
word: voertuig
lang: Dutch
word: toestel
lang: Finnish
word: alus
lang: French
word: nef
lang: German
word: Fahrzeug
lang: German
word: Lenkfahrzeug
lang: Greek
word: σκάφος
roman: skáfos
lang: Irish
word: árthach
lang: Irish
word: bád
lang: Irish
word: soitheach
lang: Latin
word: ars
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: farkost
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: farkost
lang: Portuguese
word: nave
lang: Spanish
word: nave
lang: Swedish
word: farkost
lang: Turkish
word: gemi
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تكنه
roman: tekne