craft

[kraft, krahft]

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noun, plural crafts or for 5, 8, craft.

an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.

skill; dexterity: The silversmith worked with great craft.

skill or ability used for bad purposes; cunning; deceit; guile.

the members of a trade or profession collectively; a guild.

a ship or other vessel.

a number of ships or other vessels taken as a whole: The craft were warned of possible heavy squalls.

aircraft collectively.

a single aircraft.

verb (used with object)

to make or manufacture (an object, objects, product, etc.) with skill and careful attention to detail.

Origin of craft

before 900; Middle English; Old English cræft strength, skill; cognate with German Kraft, Dutch kracht, Old Norse kraptr

Related formscraft·less, adjective

Synonyms for craft

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1. metier. 2. talent, ability. 3. craftiness, shrewdness, deceitfulness, deception.

Synonym study

3. See cunning.

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Related Words for crafted

plot, organize, form, project, design, draft, arrange, concoct, prepare, formulate, create, discover, invent, craft, construct, hatch, forge, mastermind, represent, sketch

Examples from the Web for crafted

Contemporary Examples of crafted

Within a matter of hours, the vessel that Mooney had crafted began to sink.
Victor Mooney’s Epic Adventure for His Dead Brother
Justin Jones
October 19, 2014
But viewers know the rules of these shows, how they are crafted and stories manipulated, and are complicit with the manipulation.
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Tim Teeman
July 23, 2014
But she crafted the line as the opinion of “members of Congress of both parties,” not her opinion.
Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: June 1
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June 1, 2014
Rupert Neve Designs crafted the console that lives at Third Man Records.
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April Siese
April 22, 2014
With several of his key advisers offline, Snowden crafted his question for Putin.
Snowden’s Camp: Staged Putin Q&A Was a Screw-Up
Noah Shachtman
April 21, 2014

Historical Examples of crafted

Progressively, tools for preparing and tools for eating were crafted, and new eating habits were acknowledged.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
Mihai Nadin
The political goals upon which our national security strategy should be crafted are fairly straightforward.
Shock and Awe
Harlan K. Ullman

British Dictionary definitions for crafted

craft

noun

skill or ability, esp in handiwork

skill in deception and trickery; guile; cunning

an occupation or trade requiring special skill, esp manual dexterity

the members of such a trade, regarded collectively
(as modifier)a craft guild

a single vessel, aircraft, or spacecraft

(functioning as plural) ships, boats, aircraft, or spacecraft collectively

verb

(tr) to make or fashion with skill, esp by hand

Word Origin for craft

Old English cræft skill, strength; related to Old Norse kraptr power, skill, Old High German kraft

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Word Origin and History for crafted

craft

Old English cræft, originally "power, physical strength, might," from Proto-Germanic *krab-/*kraf- (cf. Old Frisian kreft, Old High German chraft, German Kraft "strength, skill;" Old Norse kraptr "strength, virtue"). Sense expanded in Old English to include "skill, art, science, talent" (via a notion of "mental power"), which led to the meaning "trade, handicraft, calling." The word still was used for "might, power" in Middle English.

Use for "small boat" is first recorded 1670s, probably from a phrase resembling vessels of small craft and referring either to the trade they did or the seamanship they required, or perhaps it preserves the word in its original sense of "power."

craft

Old English cræftan "to exercise a craft, build," from the same source as craft (n.). Meaning "to make skilfully" is from early 15c., obsolete from 16c., but revived c.1950s, largely in U.S. advertising and commercial senses. Related: Crafted; crafting.