craft vs job

craft

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

  • To make by hand and with much skill. 

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

noun
  • 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’ . 

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

  • 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. 

job

verb
  • To work as a jobber. 

  • To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors. 

  • To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in. 

  • To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage. 

  • To strike or stab with a pointed instrument. 

  • To thrust in, as a pointed instrument. 

  • To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire. 

  • To take the loss. 

  • To hire or let in periods of service. 

noun
  • A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall). 

  • A sex act. 

  • A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business. 

  • An economic role for which a person is paid. 

  • The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer. 

  • A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer). 

  • A task. 

  • A sudden thrust or stab; a jab. 

  • Plastic surgery. 

  • Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately. 

How often have the words craft and job occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )