craft
/ˈkɹæft/ noun B1- Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
- Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .
- Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession . · The craft of writing plays.
- 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 . · The carpenter's craft.· He learned his craft as an apprentice.
- 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’ . · She represented the craft of brewers.
- A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .
- Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.
- Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gunboats, generally commanded by lieutenants.
Plural craft
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The boat, indeed, seemed to be animated with almost human intelligence, so promptly did it obey the slightest touch; and Dantès required but a short trial of his beautiful craft to acknowledge that the Genoese had not without reason attained their high reputation in the art of shipbuilding.
In that impassive colourless man, with his straw hat and his butterfly-net, I seemed to see something terrible—a creature of infinite patience and craft, with a smiling face and a murderous heart.
Ultimately, the goal is not to produce a flawless mirror image, but to craft a vibrant adaptation that captures the imagination of a new readership.
Public relations departments meticulously craft statements that project an aura of contrition while systematically neutralizing any admission of actionable wrongdoing.
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