Craft vs. Workmanship

Craftnoun

Strength; power; might; force .

Workmanshipnoun

The skill of an artisan or craftsman.

Craftnoun

(uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.

Workmanshipnoun

The quality of something made by an artisan or craftsman.

Craftnoun

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

Workmanshipnoun

The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything.

‘Due rewardFor her praiseworthy workmanship to yield.’; ‘Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship.’;

Craftnoun

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

Workmanshipnoun

That which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture, something made by manual labor.

‘Not any skilled in workmanship embossed.’; ‘By how much Adam exceeded all men in perfection, by being the immediate workmanship of God.’;

Craftnoun

(obsolete) Occult art, magic .

Workmanshipnoun

skill in an occupation or trade

Craftnoun

A work or product of art .

Workmanship

Workmanship is a human attribute relating to knowledge and skill at performing a task. Workmanship is also a quality imparted to a product.

Craftnoun

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

Craftnoun

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

Craftnoun

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

Craftnoun

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

‘The craft of writing plays.’;

Craftnoun

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.’;

Craftnoun

(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’ .

‘She represented the craft of brewers.’;

Craftnoun

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

Craftnoun

(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.

Craftnoun

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

Craftnoun

(figurative) A woman.

Craftnoun

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

Craftverb

To make by hand and with much skill.

Craftverb

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

‘state crafting; the process of crafting global policing’;

Craftverb

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

Craftnoun

Strength; might; secret power.

Craftnoun

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

‘Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.’; ‘A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making.’; ‘Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations,Has the craft of the smith been held in repute.’;

Craftnoun

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

‘The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds.’;

Craftnoun

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.

‘You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft.’; ‘The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.’;

Craftnoun

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

‘The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake.’;

Craftverb

To play tricks; to practice artifice.

‘You have crafted fair.’;

Craftnoun

the skilled practice of a practical occupation;

‘he learned his trade as an apprentice’;

Craftnoun

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

Craftnoun

people who perform a particular kind of skilled work;

‘he represented the craft of brewers’; ‘as they say in the trade’;

Craftnoun

skill in an occupation or trade

Craftnoun

shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Craftverb

make by hand and with much skill;

‘The artisan crafted a complicated tool’;

Craft

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.