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Draft

noun

1.

A document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another. Synonyms: bill of exchange, order of payment.

2.

A current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle). Synonym: draught.

3.

A preliminary sketch of a design or picture. Synonym: rough drawing.

4.

A serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg. Synonyms: draught, potation, tipple.

5.

Any of the various versions in the development of a written work. Synonym: draft copy. "The final draft of the constitution"

6.

The depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded). Synonym: draught.

7.

A regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace.

8.

A dose of liquid medicine. Synonym: draught.

9.

Compulsory military service. Synonyms: conscription, muster, selective service.

10.

A large and hurried swallow. Synonyms: draught, gulp, swig.

11.

The act of moving a load by drawing or pulling. Synonyms: draught, drawing.

verb

(past & past part. drafted; pres. part. drafting)

1.

Draw up an outline or sketch for something. Synonym: outline.

2.

Engage somebody to enter the army. Synonyms: enlist, muster in.

3.

Make a blueprint of. Synonyms: blueprint, draught.

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"Draft" Quotes from Famous Books

... glow and breeze and sparkle about the colonel's fire that I found nowhere else. It partook to a certain extent of his personality—open, bright, and with a great draft of enthusiasm always rushing up a chimney of difficulties, buoyed up with the hope of the broad clear of ...

— Colonel Carter of Cartersville • F. Hopkinson Smith

... fourth day I was ordered to get ready to proceed to Germany, as enough prisoners had been captured at the Beaumont Hamel show to make up a large draft. At the main entrance I found a group of about twenty officers, composed of eight or ten Zouaves and the remainder British. Then off we went to the station in high spirits, for it is not often that one gets a chance of ...

— 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany • Gerald Featherstone Knight

... in its constitution among other things for a World Court of Nations. In the first draft of the constitution of the League no mention was made of a World Court. But through a cablegram of Elihu Root to Colonel E. M. House, the latter was able to place articles 13 {490} and 14, which provided that the League should take measures for forming a Court of International Justice. Subsequently ...

— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar

... and which he beseeches you to commit to the flames as soon as you have become aware to what a towering height his mad ambition soars.' At other times—periods of profound mental depression, when She had gone out to balls where I was not—the draft took the affecting form of a paper to be left on my table after my departure to the confines of the globe. As thus: 'For Mrs. Onowenever, these lines when the hand that traces them shall be far away. I could not bear the ...

— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens

... incident, and that no further effort would be made to nominate me for the Vice-Presidency. On the contrary, the effect was directly the reverse. The upset of the New York machine increased the feeling of the delegates from other States that it was necessary to draft me for the nomination. By next day Senator Hanna himself concluded that this was a necessity, and acquiesced in the movement. As New York was already committed against me, and as I was not willing that ...

— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

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