Meaning

3 senses
  1. To make by hand and with much skill.

    handgemacht

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    майструва́тиmajstruváty

    make by hand and with much skill

  2. To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).

    state crafting; the process of crafting global policing

  3. To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

Examples

64 sentences
  1. She learned the craft of basket weaving from her grandmother.

    ruОна научилась искусству плетения корзин у своей бабушки. — Selena777

    deSie erlernte die Kunst des Korbwebens von ihrer Großmutter. — Qayray

  2. Do you think dogs would make good writers or would cats be better at the craft?

    Гадаєш, собаки були би добрими письменниками, або може, коти, були би кращими в цьому ремеслі? — deniko

  3. Never forget to craft a bed on your first day.

    ruНикогда не забывай скрафтить кровать в свой первый день. — ZegPhig

    deVergiss nie, dir am ersten Tag ein Bett zu bauen! — Yorwba

  4. I greatly recommend reading it to anybody thinking of learning a craft.

  5. Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to make by hand:
Русский
By meaning 1
to make by hand:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make by hand:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English craft (“strength, skill”), from Old English cræft (“strength

Inherited 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.

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Forms

crafts, crafting, crafted, crafted
Base formcraft · to craft
3rd person singularcrafts
Present participlecrafting
Past simplecrafted
Past participlecrafted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycraft
he, she, itcrafts

Past simpleLesson

all personscrafted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave crafted
he, she, ithas crafted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill craft

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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