draft
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
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Etymology: A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”). Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur. By surface analysis, draw + -t.
Inflected forms:
form: drafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: draught
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: drafts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drafting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drafted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drafted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: draught
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: draught
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: An act of drinking.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: to drink at a draft
She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.
gloss: A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: From 1767 to 1774 no pale wine was bottled but for immediate use; only draft wine of all kinds was used in the principal taverns, and it was often very bad, not from tricks of the vintners, but from bad management.
Another positive trend is the increase of quality in draft cider options. Draft cider has often been, and sometimes still is, considered an inferior product by cider traditionalists, who believe a true cider should come in a bottle or[…]
gloss: The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.
His first drafts were better than most authors' final products.
Dr Richard Beeching's handwritten draft of his report survives in the National Archives.
gloss: An unsent e-mail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An order for money to be paid; the document that states it: a cheque, note, bond, bill of exchange, money order, or IOU.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: Conscription; the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
usually
examples: He left the country to avoid the draft.
gloss: A person who has been drafted; a conscript or draftee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With these counsels, and many others equally valuable, did Papa Wick fortify Bobby ere that last awful night at Portsmouth when the Officers' Quarters held more inmates than were provided for by the Regulations, and the liberty-men of the ships fell foul of the drafts for India, and the battle raged from the Dockyard Gates even to the slums of Longport, while the drabs of Fratton came down and scratched the faces of the Queen's Officers.
gloss: A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A style of play in collectible card games, where players select from a shared pool of cards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
archaic
countable
possibly
uncountable
examples: As an instance: amongst a draft of young hounds from Earl F itzwilliam's was one, of whom Will Deane, his huntsman, made this remark in his letter, 'that he could not guess at Lord Foley's dislike to the hound called Glider, then sent, which was of the best blood in the country, being got by Mr. Meynell's Glider out of Lord Fitzwilliam's Blossom, and was moreover the most promising young hound he had ever entered;...
These drafts left between the 17th March and 28th April. After this there was no regular system of artillery drafts. A draft of 80 was detailed to take charge of horses on board ship as all cavalry drafts were for the time exhausted, and this draft sailed on the 30th June.
The Complaint about the Beef lately furnished for the use of the Troops &c at Parramatta, is not without foundation; when I commenced supplying the several Stations with animal food in January last, — a Draft of very fat Oxen was brought from Wellington for that purpose, — that draft has met the consumption of several Stations until now. — the Cattle lately remaining fell very much off in condition, though I certainly consider they were not inferior to a great deal of Beef, I have seen taken from Contractors.
An earlier draft of horses for the 4th Light Dragoons, however,was very different.
The Light Brigade have got a draft of about 250 horses from England, and we expect ours shortly.
gloss: The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack (stretched) condition.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
countable
possibly
uncountable
examples: using oxen for draft
shot forth an arrow with a mighty draft
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in the U.S., "strong" ploughs requiring the draft of four and sometimes six oxen were frequently used for breaking land which had previously lain fallow for several years.
gloss: The act of drawing in a net for fish.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
countable
possibly
uncountable
gloss: That which is drawn in; a catch; a haul.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
countable
possibly
uncountable
examples: He cast his net, which brought him a very great draft.
gloss: A small stream or tributary.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
countable
uncountable
examples: Crossing several ridges & hollows & two small drafts of water.
Hollows were tributary to a cove or another type of sizable valley threaded by a creek or, in Pennsylvania, a “run,” and in Virginia, a “draft.”
gloss: A ravine or narrow valley, especially one through which a stream (at least intermittently) flows.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West
countable
especially
uncountable
examples: [page 24:] About one quarter of a mile up the draft, the same blue-gray limestone is opened in a quarry on the Graham and Robinson farm, […]
[page 31:] Up along a narrow draft heading south-east from the creek at Southern's place, a series of small pits and trenches have been dug close to the ridge […] above the level of the creek.
Then came the pleasant toil up and down the ridges and drafts of the Knob.
Now you have left the dividing "backbone", and climb up and down a never-ending succession of ridges and "drafts," as the ravines are called. […] a searching reconnoitre of the next long draft opened to view.
gloss: To write a first version; to make a preliminary sketch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
pos: verb
gloss: To write a law.
pos: verb
gloss: To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
pos: verb
examples: There was a campaign to draft Smith to run for President.
They drafted me to be the chairperson of the new committee.
Class "H16" 4-6-2T No. 30516 has been drafted to the Fawley branch and is here seen working a 747-ton test train across Frost Lane crossing, near Hythe, on March 6 [...].
gloss: To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: He was drafted during the Vietnam War.
gloss: To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
pos: verb
examples: The calves were drafted from the cows.
gloss: To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins.
gloss: To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: At the restart, the positions of the Mercedes drivers was reversed. Hamilton drafted Bottas down to Turn One and took the lead around the outside, controlling the race from there.
gloss: To draw out; to call forth.
pos: verb
gloss: To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
pos: verb
gloss: To play a collectible card game by selecting from a shared pool of cards.
pos: verb
gloss: Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer.
gloss: Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: A Clydesdale is a draft horse.
Related words: draw
Derived words: air draft
antidraft
at a draft
backdraft
bank draft
banker's draft
beast of draft
deep draft
demand draft
downdraft
draftage
draft animal
draft-bar
draft board
draft card
draft-dodge
draft dodger
draft evader
draft excluder
draft gear
draft horse
draft house
drafthouse
draftless
draft lottery
draftman
draftmate
draftnik
draftproof
draft-quality
draftsman
draft snake
draftsperson
draft stop
draftswoman
draftwoman
drafty
forced draft
foredraft
indraft
outdraft
overdraft
photodraft
postdraft
predraft
sight draft
sleeping draft
snake draft
through draft
through-draft
time draft
updraft
misdraft
redraft
draftable
draftee
draft in
drafting site
draft up
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: միջանցահով
roman: miǰancʻahov
lang: Armenian
word: միջանցաքամի
roman: miǰancʻakʻami
lang: Armenian
word: սկվազնյակ
roman: skvaznyak
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yelçəkən
lang: Belarusian
word: скразня́к
roman: skraznják
lang: Belarusian
word: про́йма
roman: prójma
lang: Bulgarian
word: тече́ние
roman: tečénie
lang: Catalan
word: corrent
lang: Catalan
word: correntia
lang: Czech
word: průvan
lang: Danish
word: gennemtræk
lang: Dutch
word: tocht
lang: Dutch
word: trek
lang: Esperanto
word: aerfluo
lang: Esperanto
word: trablovo
lang: Estonian
word: tõmbetuul
lang: Finnish
word: veto
lang: French
word: courant d'air
lang: German
word: Zug
lang: German
word: Luftzug
lang: German
word: Durchzug
lang: German
word: Zugluft
lang: Hungarian
word: huzat
lang: Ido
word: aeroflueto
lang: Ingrian
word: läpituuli
lang: Italian
word: spiffero
lang: Italian
word: aspirazione
lang: Italian
word: refolo
lang: Italian
word: corrente d'aria
lang: Latin
word: perflātus
lang: Macedonian
word: провев
roman: provev
lang: Macedonian
word: промаја
roman: promaja
lang: Māori
word: kauanu
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: trekk
lang: Polish
word: przeciąg
lang: Polish
word: cug
lang: Portuguese
word: corrente
lang: Romanian
word: suflare
lang: Romanian
word: tiraj
lang: Romanian
word: curent de aer
lang: Russian
word: сквозня́к
roman: skvoznják
lang: Russian
word: тя́га
roman: tjága
lang: Scots
word: draucht
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: struth-gaoith
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gaoth tro tholl
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: про̏маја
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: про̏маха
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prȍmaja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prȍmaha
lang: Slovak
word: prievan
lang: Spanish
word: corriente
lang: Spanish
word: corriente de aire
lang: Swahili
word: mpepea
lang: Swedish
word: drag
lang: Swedish
word: korsdrag
lang: Ukrainian
word: про́тяг
roman: prótjah
lang: Ukrainian
word: про́дув
roman: próduv
lang: Uzbek
word: yelvizak
lang: Welsh
word: gwynt
lang: Welsh
word: drafft
lang: Welsh
word: ffrwd yr awel
lang: Bulgarian
word: подбирам
roman: podbiram
lang: German
word: auswählen
lang: German
word: einberufen