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The word craft in its most common sense now is a short and definite word for a vehicle or vessel that is used for transportation on the sea, in the air or in space. But it can be applied to fictional vessels such as time craft, dimensional craft, and probability craft. It is primarily used as the root word to which prefixes are added, as in aircraft, hovercraft, watercraft and spacecraft. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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A sailboat on the Mississippi river above the Alton Dam with a barge in the background. ...
A sailboat on the Mississippi river above the Alton Dam with a barge in the background. ...
Vehicles are non-living means of transportation. ...
Vessel can refer to any of the following: Objects Vessel (French vaissel, from a rare Latin vascellum, diminuitive of vas, vase, or urn), a word of somewhat wide application for many objects, the meaning common to them being capacity to hold or contain something. ...
Airbus A380 An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ...
BHC SR-N4 The worlds largest car and passenger carrying hovercraft A hovercraft, or air-cushion vehicle (ACV), is a vehicle or craft that can be supported by a cushion of air ejected downwards against a surface close below it, and can in principle travel over any relatively smooth...
A watercraft is a vehicle designed to float on and move across (or through) water for pleasure, physical exercise (in the case of many small boats), transporting people and/or goods, or military missions. ...
A spacecraft is a vehicle, vessel, craft or device designed to operate beyond the surface of the Earth in outer space. ...
Usage
Originally the word craft meant any of a variety of skills or professions. In the nautical tradition, it came to mean any means of catching fish such as nets, fishing rods, etcetera. Fishing boats, as well, were included as a means of catching fish. It is this usage of referring to Fishing boats which has overwhelmed the previous one. And the word "craft" soon became synonymous with any vessel that traveled on water. Look up craft in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Its use as a noun originally was as a group noun, sort of a plural in a singular form, e.g., "There are many craft in the harbor." That way, one needed not distinguish between types of craft. Formerly, large sailing vessels were not all called ships, but were given names according to how many masts they carried and how these were set with sails. Small sailing vessels were not necessarily all called boats either, but had terms of their own. For online phenomenon of shipping, see Shipping (fandom). ...
mizzen mast, mainmast and foremast Grand Turk The mast of a sailing ship is a tall vertical pole which supports the sails. ...
A sail is a surface intended to generate thrust by being placed in a wind; basically it is a vertically oriented wing. ...
A boat, like a ship, is a buoyant vessel designed for the purpose of transporting people and possibly goods across water. ...
Eventually it became customary to use the word in the singular, e.g., "What a dilapidated craft!" Recently, it is becoming used as just a normal noun, i.e., made a plural by adding an -s on the end of the word.
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