The difference between Craft and Engender
When used as verbs, craft means to make by hand and with much skill, whereas engender means to beget (of a man).
Craft is also noun with the meaning: strength.
check bellow for the other definitions of Craft and Engender
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Craft as a noun (uncountable, obsolete):
Strength; power; might; force .
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Craft as a noun (uncountable):
Intellectual power; skill; art. Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity . Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception . Occult art, magic .
Examples:
"synonyms: craftiness cunning foxiness guile slyness wiliness"
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Craft as a noun (countable, obsolete in the general sense):
A work or product of art . Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .
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Craft as a noun (countable, obsolete):
A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .
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Craft as a noun (countable, obsolete):
Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts' of the medieval universities .
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Craft as a noun (uncountable):
Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .
Examples:
"The craft of writing plays."
"synonyms: craftsmanship workmanship"
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Craft as a noun (countable, plural '''crafts'''):
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 .
Examples:
"The carpenter's craft."
"He learned his craft as an apprentice."
"synonyms: art trade handicraft business profession"
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Craft as a noun (countable):
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' .
Examples:
"She represented the craft of [[brewer]]s."
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Craft as a noun (countable, plural '''craft'''):
A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space . 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. A woman.
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Craft as a noun (countable, fishing):
Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .
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Craft as a verb:
To make by hand and with much skill.
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Craft as a verb:
To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman): "state crafting", "crafting global policing".
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Craft as a verb (video games):
to combine multiple items to form a new item
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Engender as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
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Engender as a verb (transitive):
To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
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Engender as a verb (transitive):
To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
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Engender as a verb (intransitive):
To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
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Engender as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To copulate, to have sex.
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Engender as a verb (critical theory):
To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.