[
US
/ˈkɹæft/
]
[ UK /kɹˈɑːft/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɑːft/ ]
NOUN
- a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
- skill in an occupation or trade
-
people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
as they say in the trade
he represented the craft of brewers - shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
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the skilled practice of a practical occupation
he learned his trade as an apprentice
VERB
-
make by hand and with much skill
The artisan crafted a complicated tool
How To Use craft In A Sentence
- The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
- Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
- Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
- The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
- As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
- By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
- I was always a bit arty-crafty. Times, Sunday Times
- His small, exquisitely crafted pictures could look a bit twee.
- First to unfold were the two 14-foot-wide drogue chutes, which oriented the craft and continued slowing it.
- The men practised various traditional crafts, such as carving toys out of bone.