craft

Senso (Inglese)

Verb

1. To make by hand and with much skill.
2. To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).
3. To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Strength; power; might; force .
2. Intellectual power; skill; art.
3. Intellectual power; skill; art.
4. (obsolete) Intellectual power; skill; art.
5. (obsolete) A work or product of art .
6. (obsolete) A work or product of art .
7. (obsolete) A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
8. (obsolete) Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .
9. Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
10. 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 .
11. 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’ .
12. A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
13. A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
14. A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
15. Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/kɹɑːft/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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 German Kraft (“strength, power, force, energy, employee”).