(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.
Handiwork
Definition:
(n.) Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact McCracken points to problems that others don't seem to, such as: Samsung may have barely mentioned Android at its Galaxy S4 launch event, but there's plenty of evidence of Google's handiwork in the S4, and at times, the handset's joint authorship results in competing features, overlapping functionality and a general sense of redundancy.
(2) Photos of my handiwork are out there in Facebook and Twitter-land, being shared, retweeted, liked and favoured.
(3) KH: Surveying his handiwork he reflected once again on the futility of existence and how long it had been since he’d had a decent bag of chips.
(4) Some of them made up to $15,000 per year from their handiwork.
(5) In damning email correspondence made public last week, Christie's aides and political appointees merely congratulated one another on their handiwork.
(6) The current drop is probably the handiwork of human beings."
(7) It was beautifully done, she said, by someone who would never have expected his handiwork to be visible.
(8) Most of the progressive tax rises to come in over the next couple years, says the IFS, are Labour's handiwork.
(9) Consider God’s handiwork: who can make straight, what He hath made crooked?” These words, from Ecclesiastes, pose a pertinent question.
(10) The near 900 shareholders at the meeting provided as good a sample as any of M&S's shoppers with Earl's handiwork getting mixed reports.
(11) The spreadsheet wizards duly looked upon Mr Darling's handiwork and pronounced it... adequate.
(12) A father and his young son, careful not to step on his handiwork, play catch nearby.
(13) When Naftali asked about them, Amir said they were the handiwork of his brother, Hagai, and bragged about his technical skills.
(14) Optimization of the activity of assistants, their skilled handiwork, and the skill in teaching and learning surgery in the interest of a sick person are dwelt on.
(15) The extraordinary vessels are the handiwork of early modern humans, who used stone tools to prepare and finish the containers around 14,700 years ago after the last ice age.
(16) According to the local paper, El Heraldo de Aragón , the damage inflicted on the mural in the church of the Santuario de la Misericordia is being investigated by experts, but the artist's descendants are said to be unhappy that an individual decided to take the restoration job into her own hands and fear her handiwork is irreversible.
(17) In that incident, the killers used machetes or other sharp instruments, their grotesque handiwork betraying the cruelty and ritualism of MS-13, or the Mara Salvatrucha, a neighbourhood street gang with its roots in El Salvador’s civil war of the 80s and 90s.
(18) Daly and the rest of us had to wait 22 years to hear and see his handiwork, however, because contractual disputes delayed release of the film – which won an Oscar.
(19) India’s defence minister, Arun Jaitley, said the incident was “the handiwork of a neighbouring nation”.
(20) Patrick Cockburn, author of a recent book on Isis, reports that a recent video claiming to show a beheading by the jihadist group was in fact not their handiwork at all: it was shot in Mexico, an execution by the Zetas.