(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: '~' is both the singular and the plural form for meaning 1.
1.
You can refer to a boat, a space~, or an air~ as a ~.
With great difficulty, the fisherman manoeuvred his small ~ close to the reef...
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see also landing ~
2.
A ~ is an activity such as weaving, carving, or pottery that involves making things skilfully with your hands.
All kinds of traditional ~ industries are preserved here.
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3.
You can use ~ to refer to any activity or job that involves doing something skilfully.
Maurice Murphy, one of the country’s leading classical trumpeters, learnt his ~ with the Black Dyke Mills band.
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4.
If something is ~ed, it is made skilfully.
The windows would probably have been ~ed in the latter part of the Middle Ages...
Many delegates were willing to ~ a compromise...
The author extracts the maximum from every carefully-~ed scene in this witty tale.
...original, hand-~ed bags at affordable prices.
VERB: be V-ed, V n, V-ed, V-ed