Build vs. Craft — What's the Difference?

To form by combining materials or parts; construct.

A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small scale production of goods, or their maintenance, for example by tinkers.

To order, finance, or supervise the construction of

Skill in doing or making something, as in the arts; proficiency.

To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create

Skill in evasion or deception; guile.

To increase or strengthen by adding gradually to

An occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity or skilled artistry.

To establish a basis for; found or ground

The practitioners of such an occupation or trade considered as a group.

To make something by combining materials or parts.

Pl. craft A boat, ship, aircraft, or spacecraft.

To engage in the construction or design of buildings

Crafts Items made by craftspeople.

To develop in magnitude or extent

To make or construct (something) with care or ingenuity.

To progress toward a maximum, as of intensity

Strength; power; might; force .

The physical makeup of a person or thing, especially one's physique

(uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.

(Computers) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.

Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .

(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .

(transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.

(obsolete) Occult art, magic .

(transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.

A work or product of art .

(transitive) To establish a basis for (something).

(collective or plural) Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .

(intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.

A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .

(intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.

Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .

To construct (software) by compiling its source code.

(uncountable) Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .

To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.

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 physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.

(countable) 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’ .

Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.

A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .

A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, or a configuration of a character's items or skills, created by the player.

(nautical) 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.

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.

To raise or place on a foundation; to form, establish, or produce by using appropriate means.

(figurative) A woman.

To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; - frequently with up; as, to build up one's constitution.

Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building.

To make by hand and with much skill.

To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.

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

Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship; a great build on a man.

(video games) To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

Constitution of the human body

Strength; might; secret power.

Alternative names for the body of a human being;

Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.

Make by combining materials and parts;

Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.

Form or accumulate steadily;

Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.

Build or establish something abstract;

A vessel; vessels of any kind; - generally used in a collective sense.

Improve the cleansing action of;

To play tricks; to practice artifice.

Order, supervise, or finance the construction of;

The skilled practice of a practical occupation;

Give form to, according to a plan;

A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space

Be engaged in building;

People who perform a particular kind of skilled work;

Found or ground;

Skill in an occupation or trade

Bolster or strengthen;

Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Develop and grow;

Make by hand and with much skill;