Craftiness

Definition

craft /krɑ:ft; US kræft/ n ၁။ (က) [C] လက္မႈပညာ။ လက္မႈ အတတ္။ an emporium of African arts and crafts ❍ traditional crafts like basket-weaving ❍ a craft exhibition/ fair. (ခ) [U] အတတ္ပညာ ကြၽမ္းက်င္မႈ။ chefs who learned their craft in top hotels ❍ A writer only becomes a true writer by practising his craft. ၂။ [U] ( fml derog ) ကလိမ္ဉာဏ္။ ဉာဏ္နီဉာဏ္နက္။ He achieved by craft and guile what he could not manage by honest means. ၃။ [C] ( pl unchanged) (က) (ေရ)ယာဥ္။ Hundreds of small craft surrounded the liner as it steamed into the harbour. (ခ) (ေလ၊ အာကာသ)ယာဥ္။ The astronauts piloted their landing craft down to the moon's surface. v (usu passive) လက္ျဖင့္ကြၽမ္းက်င္စြာ ဖန္တီးသည္။ a carefully crafted speech အေသအခ်ာ ျပင္ဆင္ေရးသားထား ေသာ မိန္႔ခြန္း။ ❍ a beautiful hand-crafted silver goblet. ❏ crafty adj ( -ier, -iest ) ( usu derog ) လည္ေသာ။ နပ္ေသာ။ a crafty politician ❍ schoolchildren having a crafty smoke in the corridor ❍ John's a crafty old fox. craftily adv craftiness n [U]

Examples

1. The promotion of traditional Egyptian arts and crafts
2. Skilled craft workers
3. A display of local crafts
4. A craft fair
5. We passed several other craft on the river.
6. The great preachers were masters of their craft.