(n.) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
(n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.
(v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(2) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
(3) With this announcement, the UK is demonstrating the type of leadership that nations around the world must take in order to craft a successful agreement in Paris and solve the climate crisis,” said former US vice-president Al Gore.
(4) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(5) It is still weird that "arts and crafts" is in the same category as dolls.
(6) The base and prospect of this manoeuver are discussed with a reference to Craft's procedure.
(7) These involved two craft being carried to Mars and landed with precision on its surface.
(8) They aren't pointless; apart from any craft they may teach, they can also offer connections and contacts – a "way in" – which is the modern essential of anyone trying to start a career.
(9) Trump on replacing healthcare law that took years to craft: 'Nobody knew it could be so complicated' Read more Trump held meetings with state governors and health insurance company executives at the White House on Monday.
(10) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
(11) JoyJoy was one of them: a twin-stick shooter with well-crafted controls, varied visuals and a well-tuned progression curve.
(12) In the first (1847-1898), it was a craft without an academic and professional base.
(13) The three were meeting later today with the White House, the energy secretary, Stephen Chu, and the interior secretary, Ken Salazar, to craft a bill that would pass in the Senate — and have the support of the Obama administration.
(14) • Amanda Girling-Budd is founder of The School of Stuff in east London: it runs year-long, one-day-a-week craft courses for career changers, five-day intensive courses, 12-week evening classes and one-off days and weekends.
(15) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
(16) It is a lot like the craft beer where we’ve seen big brands say ‘it’s time we bought these brands before they become big competition’.” He said the buyout of the craft gin distiller Monkey 47 by Pernod Ricard in January marked the beginning of a trend that was likely to escalate, although there were few craft gin makers who have reached any serious scale.
(17) We all have our own unique DNA and our own life experiences.” But rather than run from the family name entirely, the former Florida governor is appealing instead to his party’s sense of noblesse oblige – crafting a new version of his brother’s somewhat faded brand of compassionate conservatism.
(18) A triumvirate of Senators — Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham, and Independent Joe Lieberman — are working to craft a climate change bill they think would have a good chance of getting support from Republican as well as Democratic Senators.
(19) Labour are finally crafting a clearer line on Brexit: this morning, the shadow chancellor warned that “losing access to the single market would be devastating for jobs, livelihoods and our public services”, that Britain didn’t vote for “economic misery and the loss of jobs”, and that the government was “abandoning Britain’s clear national interests by putting narrow party political concerns first.” These are good lines – and clarify that Labour’s priority is single-market access – but they will only cut through if repeated in similar language until people can hardly bear to hear them anymore.
(20) Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it.
Cutter
Definition:
(n.) One who cuts; as, a stone cutter; a die cutter; esp., one who cuts out garments.
(n.) That which cuts; a machine or part of a machine, or a tool or instrument used for cutting, as that part of a mower which severs the stalk, or as a paper cutter.
(n.) A fore tooth; an incisor.
(n.) A boat used by ships of war.
(n.) A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same length, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead.
(n.) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter.
(n.) A small, light one-horse sleigh.
(n.) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
(n.) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
(n.) A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(2) Mitral valve replacement with the Smeloff-Cutter (S-C) prothesis was performed in 154 patients between September, 1965, and January, 1970.
(3) UK Border Force officers have warned of an emerging trend of "cutters" flying into Britain to practise female genital mutilation (FGM).
(4) The regional distribution of cutter fibers correlates with previous physiological studies on the distribution of the fast and slow motor axons to these muscle fibers.
(5) In a group of 429 glass cutters complaints in the region of the ulnar nerve were reported in 44.7%, the local findings in 36.8%.
(6) The bonus earnings of cane cutters who were found to be infected with S. mansoni were compared, retrospectively, with earnings of uninfected cane cutters during the years 1968-69.
(7) The alfalfa leaf-cutter bee, Megachile rotundata, stops abdominal contractions briefly during oviposition of female eggs but not during oviposition of male eggs.
(8) A 37-year-old woman had undergone aortic valve replacement with Smeloff-Cutter prosthetic valve in 1967.
(9) "As a little girl I would go looking for the cutters and ask them when it was my turn," Faduma Ali says.
(10) For osteotomy conic cutters were used (diameter of base 2.1 mm and 5 mm) and a drill (3000 rotations per minute) from the small instrumentarium of SYNTHES Co.
(11) The proximal end of the TEC system consists of a mechanical housing which controls the vacuum, the rotating cutter (750 RPM) and the cutter excursion (4 cm).
(12) Finer maps for identification of CpG islands and associated genes should involve several rare cutters including Eag I, Sac II and Bss HII.
(13) Despite her famous “let’s make ’em squeal” ad, the pork-cutter is not quite the Palinesque radical Democrats depict.
(14) Using the transverse-alternating field electrophoresis system, we describe a method to accurately evaluate the sizes of fragments generated by rare-cutter digestions within the 30-4700-kb range.
(15) In order to position Secretary Rubin – rather than any of the regulators – as the Administration’s chief spokesman on this issue, the Secretary intends to discuss the Administration’s position at a speech which will be covered by the press in New York on 27 February,” wrote Cutter on 21 February.
(16) A vitreous cutter was used simultaneously to remove liberated necrotic debris.
(17) A study was made of the exposure of welders and cutters in Dutch industries to air pollution consisting of total particulate, chromium, nickel, copper, nitrogen oxides, ozone, carbon monoxide and other pollutants.
(18) In the early hours of Wednesday, hundreds of people took bolt cutters to the fence.
(19) For a while, the “Washington consensus” imposed cookie-cutter market-based prescriptions on countries that needed to borrow money.
(20) The prevalence of Raynaud's phenomenon in chain saw users is twice as great as that in bush cutter users.