craft vs game

craft

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

  • 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’ . 

  • 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 woman. 

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

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

  • Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession . 

  • 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. 

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

verb
  • To make by hand and with much skill. 

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

  • To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine. 

game

noun
  • Mastery; the ability to excel at something. 

  • The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy. 

  • Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.) 

  • An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal. 

  • A school subject during which sports are practised. 

  • A particular instance of playing a game. 

  • That which is gained, such as the stake in a game. 

  • The number of points necessary to win a game. 

  • In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum. 

  • The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title. 

  • One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game. 

  • A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession. 

  • An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants. 

  • A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal. 

  • Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed. 

  • wild animals hunted for food. 

  • A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime. 

verb
  • To gamble. 

  • To play card games, board games, or video games. 

  • To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable. 

  • To perform premeditated seduction strategy. 

adj
  • Willing and able to participate. 

  • Injured, lame (of a limb). 

  • That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely. 

  • Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above. 

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