(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.
Handicraft
Definition:
(n.) A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
(n.) A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman.
Example Sentences:
(1) So our house is open to visitors, and you are always welcome.” A few weeks after we left, the Gregório river oveflowed, wiping out five villages, destroying four years worth of handicrafts and carpentry and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
(2) In the rooms used for handicraft lessons numerous articles of pottery were on display.
(3) Our guide was grateful for our tips and delivered us to traders hawking locally made handicrafts.
(4) Despite the jail's grim exterior, the regime is fairly liberal and inmates earn extra cash by selling food, handicrafts - and drug ballads.
(5) The new buildings are a dramatic contrast to the muted colours and elaborate handicrafts that adorned the homes of Afghanistan's traditional elite, hidden behind high, plain walls.
(6) Many of the handicraft shops have closed in Karimabad , a beautiful town 14 miles south of the lake that boasts a 15-century fort with sweeping views of the valley below.
(7) Local handicrafts include flower arrangements made from fish scales.
(8) Another shop owner who sells handicrafts is pinning his hope to an influx of foreign tourists.
(9) This double rejection leaves many children frustrated and depressed, and creates inter-family problems.” Oaxaca is the second poorest state in Mexico; two-thirds of its population live in poverty, and the poorest of the poor are concentrated amid the spectacular mountains of the Mixteca region where indigenous Mixteca and Triqui communities live in isolated valleys, eking out a living from subsistence farming and traditional handicrafts.
(10) Nigi Nigi Nu Noos has Balinese-style bamboo cottages furnished with handicrafts and wooden sculptures.
(11) Environmental monitoring during lost wax casting in jewelry handicrafts was performed for gold, silver, zinc and copper by means of personal samplers and ICP-AAS techniques were used for determining airborne metals.
(12) This solution has the advantage of an easy dosage of the number of calories and of grams of nitrogen to administer; it also decreases the risks of bacterial contamination from "handicraft" mixing and excessive manipulations.
(13) The other focused on handicrafts and non-emotionally challenging activities.
(14) Since John Hunter first applied the scientific approach to surgery in the late 18th century, it has been raised from the humble level of a handicraft to a highly experimental science.
(15) Surgical educators should address the science of surgical handicraft in a manner similar to the science of preoperative and postoperative surgical principles that have been espoused over the past 40 years.
(16) 77%, underwent vocational training in a recognized training occupation, the others in line with section 48 BBiG (vocational education act) or section 42 b HwO (handicrafts ordinance) to reduced requirements.
(17) A study of 66 adults in the handicraft and skill-training centres attached to the blind schools indicated that the principal predisposing factors of blindness were mitch (30%), smallpox (15%), cataract (12%), and traditional eye medicine (11%).
(18) Photograph by Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer The Arena da Amazonia stadium has been designed in the shape of an indigenous basket in a supposed show of respect to Indian culture, but the community have been denied permission to sell their handicrafts at the venue.
(19) Decades ago the American economist William Baumol defined certain sectors as being “handicraft industries” (health, education, the performing arts) that were disproportionately reliant on people rather than machinery, and as such with limited productivity gains.
(20) The transition to industrial therapy following a preparatory period in a handicraft work therapeutic unit constitutes for the patients a decisive step from rehabilitation in a hospital to other rehabilitation facilities.