Raft vs. Craft — What's the Difference?

A raft is any flat structure for support or transportation over water. It is usually of basic design, characterized by the absence of a hull.

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.

A flat buoyant structure of timber or other materials fastened together, used as a boat or floating platform.

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

A layer of reinforced concrete forming the foundation of a building.

Skill in evasion or deception; guile.

A large amount of something

An occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity or skilled artistry.

Travel on or as if on a raft

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

Bring or fasten together (a number of boats or other objects) side by side

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

A flat structure, typically made of planks, logs, or barrels, that floats on water and is used for transport or as a platform for swimmers.

Crafts Items made by craftspeople.

A flatbottom inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water

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

A great number, amount, or collection

Strength; power; might; force .

To convey on a raft.

(uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.

To make into a raft.

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

To travel by raft.

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

A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform.

(obsolete) Occult art, magic .

(by extension) Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion.

A work or product of art .

A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water.

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

(US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.

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

A slice of toast.

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

A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope.

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

(cooking) A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white.

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 .

A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.

(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’ .

(transitive) To convey on a raft.

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

(transitive) To make into a raft.

(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.

(intransitive) To travel by raft.

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

(GUI) To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.

(figurative) A woman.

A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.

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

A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. (such as is formed in some Western rivers of the United States), which obstructs navigation.

To make by hand and with much skill.

A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately.

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

To transport on a raft, or in the form of a raft; to make into a raft; as, to raft timber.

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

A flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers

Strength; might; secret power.

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

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

Transport on a raft;

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

Travel by raft in water;

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.

Make into a raft;

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

To play tricks; to practice artifice.

The skilled practice of a practical occupation;

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

People who perform a particular kind of skilled work;

Skill in an occupation or trade

Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

Make by hand and with much skill;