The Definition–definite article | 1. | (used, esp. before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an): the book you gave me; Come into the house. | | 2. | (used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something w
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ell-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West. | | 3. | (used with or as part of a title): the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith. | | 4. | (used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time. | | 5. | (used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped. | | 6. | (used in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging): He won't be able to play football until the leg mends. | | 7. | (used before adjectives that are used substantively, to note an individual, a class or number of individuals, or an abstract idea): to visit the sick; from the sublime to the ridiculous. | | 8. | (used before a modifying adjective to specify or limit its modifying effect): He took the wrong road and drove miles out of his way. | | 9. | (used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century): the sixties; the gay nineties. | | 10. | (one of many of a class or type, as of a manufactured item, as opposed to an individual one): Did you listen to the radio last night? | | 11. | enough: He saved until he had the money for a new car. She didn't have the courage to leave. | | 12. | (used distributively, to note any one separately) for, to, or in each; a or an: at one dollar the pound. | |
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Craft Definition–noun | 1. | an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, esp. manual skill: the craft of a mason. | | 2. | skill; dexterity: The silversmith worked with great craft. | | 3. | skill or ability used for bad purposes; cunning; deceit; guile. | | 4. | the members of a trade or profession collectively; a guild. | | 5. | a ship or other vessel. | | 6. | a number of ships or other vessels taken as a whole: The craft were warned of possible heavy squalls. | | 7. | aircraft collectively. | –verb (used with object) | 9. | to make or manufacture (an object, objects, product, etc.) with skill and careful attention to detail. | |
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