craft

Значение (English)

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. .

Synonyms

trade

cunning

art

🎨

skill

handicraft

guile

ship

🚢

vessel

trick

boat

⛵

slyness

artifice

workmanship

craftiness

deceit

craftsmanship

profession

artfulness

stratagem

ability

technique

knack

wiliness

dexterity

wile

wiles

performance

trickery

make

adeptness

plot

pretence

manufacture

skillfulness

masterliness

accomplishment

slickness

astuteness

proficiency

technology

artistic work

arts

handiwork

resourcefulness

deception

foxiness

aptitude

construct

hulk

hull

job

jugglery

business

lie

mastery

metier

occupation

pair

plan

produce

barque

qualification

ruse

scheme

serpentine wisdom

bark

shipboard

shrewdness

skiff

barge

sleight

speciality

stunt

swindle

talent

archness

trade association

adroitness

two

watercraft

liberal art

cum-savvy

acting

work

craftmanship

artistic skill

industry

trickishness

technique use of the hands

savoir-faire

tradecraft

couple

👫

crafts

corvette

craftsman

create

contrivance

cunningness

device

technical ability

duplicity

engineering

expert

expertise

fabricate

facility

falsehood

force

fraud

freemasonry

guild

clumsiness

hand

✋

calling

📲

handiness

home-made

Произносится как (IPA)

/kɹɑːft/

Этимология (English)

Inherited from среднеанглийский: craft

Inherited from староанглийский: cræft

Cognate with немецкий: Kraft

In summary

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”).