draft
Meanings
noun
- A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
- The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.
- An act of drinking.
- The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
- A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
- Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
- 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.
- A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.
- An unsent e-mail.
- A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
- An order for money to be paid; the document that states it: a cheque, note, bond, bill of exchange, money order, or IOU.
- Conscription; the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
verb
- To write a first version; to make a preliminary sketch.
- To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
- To write a law.
- To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
- To conscript (a person); to force (a person) to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
- To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
- To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
- To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
- To draw out; to call forth.
- To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
- To play a collectible card game by selecting from a shared pool of cards.
adj
- Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.
- Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.
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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.
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