I. noun
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craft knife
landing craft
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■ ADJECTIVE
other
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Around them, other craft were also taking advantage of the flood tide to enter harbour.
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They submitted their evidence to the Short committee separately despite the protests of the other craft committees and council.
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Only the odd light burned, a warning to any other craft travelling the canals on the coal-black night.
small
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Last year small river craft were brought in by air or overland to Kalewa and driven down the Chindwin to the Irrawaddy.
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When built, the arsenal ships will have the smallest crews of any Navy ship except small coastal patrol craft .
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Some smaller craft may be written on this policy if the use is other than private pleasure.
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Muelhaupt said he first thought the plane was a smaller craft practicing maneuvers.
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She began to see small craft darting like dragonflies between the soaring galleries.
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Where our Investigation Department operations involved shipping and small craft we were the specialists to whom they could turn for practical assistance.
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They began to see small craft but, like the Amenca, apparently going in the wrong direction.
traditional
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The film featured traditional craft skills and a selection of products.
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All traditional craft materials are represented: clay, glass, wood, fiber and metal with examples from contemporary artists.
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Seven thousand necklaces have come from Guatamala where they're a traditional craft item.
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I have consistently maintained that the canoe is the traditional craft for exploring wilderness areas without disturbing wildlife.
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The shortage of jobs is especially bad in traditional craft apprenticeships, in which many young people wish to work.
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Tapestry Tapestry is a traditional craft but its commercialization in Madeira is fairly recent.
■ NOUN
fair
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Her ceramics are sought after at craft fairs in Northallerton, Harrogate and York.
industry
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Soon villages by railway lines became centres of new craft industries , in wood-carving and other allegedly traditional bric-a-brac.
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Aid was now able to be granted to measures which promoted diversification into other activities such as tourism and craft industries .
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Within sixteen years tapestry-making had become an important and interesting local craft industry .
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The town subsists on farming, the craft industry and a small retail trade.
knife
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Trim the paper to the shape of the faces with a sharp craft knife .
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Use a craft knife for really sharp edges.
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He said the two men attacked him with a tyre lever, hammer and a craft knife .
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The vinyl is cut to size the a craft knife , the backing peeled off and the laminate simply stuck in place.
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Remove the boxes and Plasticine, and tidy up the rough edges, using a craft knife .
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Cut the tiles to the required width with a sharp craft knife , and just slip into place.
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Cut them off at the base with a razor blade or craft knife .
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Cut lengths off at ceiling and skirting with a sharp craft knife , angled into corners, for an exact fit.
landing
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Group 4 was a floating reserve lying offshore in their landing craft until required to reinforce one of the other Groups.
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These constraints put out of the question any prospect of training fully fledged navigators for the thousands of landing craft crews.
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Jitters had been wounded early, and washed back to the landing craft .
pleasure
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Nowadays pleasure craft use the lift, going up and down within an impressive structure of tubular iron.
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Today, it is mainly used by pleasure craft .
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A half mile section reclaimed by volunteers will then be flooded and opened to pleasure craft .
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The total number of launches to pleasure craft was 2,715 according to the latest figures.
shop
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Carla went to find craft shops and Sara went to buy Rodney's provisions on her own.
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The Oriental Collection and the new crochet cotton are now available from Madeira stockists and good craft shops throughout the country.
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A large selection of miniature frames, and other small items suitable for pressed flower work, are available from craft shops .
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A local craft shop took them and after that she had regular orders for them from outlets further afield.
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So, how can a potential buyer distinguish good wood carvings from hardwood carvings in a craft shop ?
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In nearby Holmfirth you can visit the popular post-card museum, antiques and craft shops .
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Polished stone alleyways lead to an array of craft shops and tiny cafés - and the prices are astonishingly low.
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You can also buy special packs of edible egg colourings from some supermarkets and craft shops .
skill
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It replaces traditional drawing abilities yet it can preserve the centuries of craft skills built up by shoemakers.
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The great scholars also are largely ignored for their craft skills and precise goals in scholarship.
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In these ways, argues Marx, capitalist manufacturing exploits workers' labour-power and craft skills .
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Teaching itself should be more concerned with the craft level and the development of all of the craft skills in the occupation.
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The film featured traditional craft skills and a selection of products.
worker
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The gathering and concentration of craft workers into the temples seems to have stimulated technical advances of many kinds.
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Construction or building inspectors need several years of experience as a manager, supervisor, or craft worker before becoming inspectors.
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Traditional craft workers , and professional groups such as doctors, operate in this manner.
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Most construction estimators have considerable previous experience as a construction craft worker or manager.
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This market town and centre of its district has been a notable village of craft workers since the eighteenth century.
workshop
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In the craft workshop there's the opportunity to enjoy painting and drawing, basketwork and tapestry.
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At Balnakeil, reached along a side road, is an establishment of craft workshops .
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Attractions include jazz bands, a punch and judy show, craft workshops and an outdoor display of visual arts.
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There were craft workshops , shops and counting houses for the commercial and artisan community.
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There is a big demand for craft workshops .
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Also coarse fishing and craft workshops .
■ VERB
build
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There is no current technology that could build a craft to sustain life for that period of time.
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Only Satellite Television, a subsidiary of Comsit, has announced it will build a craft - for a service in 1986.
carry
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But a craft that size would carry alternative life-saving equipment.
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Up for sale are both its meteorological satellites and the Landsat craft that carry out land surveys of the globe.
develop
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The Federation have developed an advanced fighter craft called the Epical.
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New Deal programs also gave many black artists a chance to develop their craft .
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Like their comrades from earlier wars, many GIs developed and refined the craft of scrounging into a high art.
learn
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Born in a small mining village near Glenrothes, he has climbed the ladder by learning his craft .
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Here, new managers speak for themselves as they learn a new craft .
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It was a house made as they once made their ships and I wondered how many would now learn either craft .
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They hold out hope, however, that younger Navajos will be encouraged to learn the craft .
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As he learned the craft , the penny finally dropped - or rather the ball.
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He had learned his craft and had lingered too long.
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There he learned his second craft , that of magician.
practice
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Thus a practicing and craft sociologist is either empirically grounding sociological ideas or constructing them in some speculative process.
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Atwater differed from others practicing the same craft , for either party.
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Now her travels come full-circle as she returns to Tucson to practice her craft in the surrounding desert.
work
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He works in the craft business there, making rugs from alpaca.
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Outside houses old men sat silently, holding a great-grandchild or working at some craft by the shine of a lamp.
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I have worked in this craft a long time, so I am very appreciative of my success.
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People who work in craft occupations are likely to be reasonably safe from unemployment.
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A full week Night be spent playing games and working on craft projects and drills on a single alphabet letter.
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book/antiques/craft/trade etc fair
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Antiques Fair , Social Centre, Yarm.
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Attractions include over 100 trade stands, refreshment tents and licensed bars, caravan site and craft fair .
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Champagne was also prospering during this time from the great trade fairs .
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Chartwell Travel is offering discounted air fares to the Frankfurt Book Fair from £108 return.
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Eighty countries plan to attend the Baghdad trade fair in November.
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Running alongside was a trade fair .
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Then, on the third day, he would be a guest at a trade fair held in New Jersey.
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Craft and cunning are necessary for the scheme to work.
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Search and rescue craft were at the scene of the crash this morning.
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A love of gardening easily combines with the craft of flower pressing, as one leads naturally into the other.
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But a rotating craft exerts Coriolis forces, which work in a different direction from a centripetal force.
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He then deals with the craft itself, offering valuable advice on film types and exposure.
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I have worked in this craft a long time, so I am very appreciative of my success.
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I intend to detonate it as the first craft land.
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Look instead at any self-organising galleries in your area, art and craft co-operatives, societies, guilds, and so on.
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There were craft workshops, shops and counting houses for the commercial and artisan community.
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There were no survivors from either craft .
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
beautifully
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Frasier is a work of art, a beautifully crafted mix of class and farce.
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The arms were kept apart, in precious and beautifully crafted silver cases.
carefully
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A carefully crafted list of billboards that will come down.
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I had carefully crafted what I would be willing to say publicly about my life.
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But here comes the Internet to upset these carefully crafted rules.
■ NOUN
hand
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Evolving Software A key feature of the Industrial Revolution was the replacement of hand-crafted manufacture with mass-production techniques.
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Everything goes perfectly with a glass of strawberry-blonde ale or any of the other hand-crafted brews.
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This is a quality that will last for ever. 50 classical and contemporary patterns all exquisitely hand crafted .
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Few McKinsey consultants had either experienced the changes at hand or had crafted plans for doing so.
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The Asylum taught hand crafts to blind people so they could learn to support themselves.
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a finely crafted Chinese serving platter
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A team of White House aides has crafted a series of proposals, including convening a commission or a White House conference.
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Even if it was a bad ballet, it was always well crafted.
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It wasn't that good, but impromptu insults are seldom well crafted.
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Otto Galler further improved the breed, crafting today's streamlined beast.
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Still, Hailey has crafted a tale that should make South Florida proud.
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The government crafted the bailout scheme with little public discussion and without determining who was responsible for the losses.
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The rule was crafted over the past few years with the help of major railroads.