Workmanship

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Workmanship \Work"man*ship\, n.
     1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of
        making anything.
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              Due reward


              For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . .
              Where most may wonder at the workmanship. --Milton.
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     2. That which is effected, made, or produced; manufacture,
        something made by manual labor.
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              Not any skilled in workmanship embossed. --Spenser.
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              By how much Adam exceeded all men in perfection, by
              being the immediate workmanship of God. --Sir W.
                                                    Raleigh.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  workmanship
       n : skill in an occupation or trade [syn: {craft}, {craftsmanship}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  101 Moby Thesaurus words for "workmanship":
     ability, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, architecture,
     artfulness, artisanship, artistry, assembly, bravura, brilliance,
     building, capability, capacity, casting, cleverness, command,
     competence, composition, construction, control, conversion,
     coordination, craft, crafting, craftsmanship, creation,
     cultivation, cunning, deftness, devising, dexterity, dexterousness,
     dextrousness, diplomacy, efficiency, elaboration, erection,
     expertise, extraction, fabrication, facility, fashioning, finesse,
     formation, forming, formulation, framing, grace, grip, growing,
     handicraft, handiness, handiwork, harvesting, horsemanship,
     ingeniousness, ingenuity, know-how, machining, making, manufacture,
     manufacturing, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, milling, mining,
     molding, practical ability, prefabrication, preparation,
     processing, producing, proficiency, prowess, quickness, raising,
     readiness, refining, resource, resourcefulness, savoir-faire,
     savvy, seamanship, shaping, skill, skillfulness, smelting, style,
     tact, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery,
     technical skill, technique, timing, virtuosity, wit, wizardry