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Drafting   /drˈæftɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Draft  v. t.  (past & past part. drafted; pres. part. drafting)  
1.
To draw the outline of; to delineate.
2.
To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
3.
To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select; especially, to compulsorily select and induct members of a population to serve in the armed forces. "HotLips Houlihan: How did a degenerate person like him achieve such a position of responsibility in the army? Radar: He was drafted." "Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples."
4.
To transfer by draft. "All her rents been drafted to London."


noun
drafting  n.  
1.
Writing a first version to be filled out and polished later.
2.
The craft of drawing blueprints.
Synonyms: mechanical drawing.
3.
A creation of artistic drawings.
Synonyms: drawing, draftsmanship.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Drafting" Quotes from Famous Books



... were characterized, to more than the usual degree, by that dignified and ore rotundo phraseology, that solemnity in the presentation of imposing generalities, which are wont to be so dear to committees charged with drafting resolutions. The replies of the President were in striking contrast to this rhetorical method alike in substance and in form; clear, concise, and close-knit, they were models of good work in political controversy, and like most of his writing they sorely tempt to ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II • John T. Morse
... in the portraits of the past merely represented the gorgeous dress of bygone days. But the painter of the present shows that color is beginning to be used for itself and that the painter is no longer hesitant concerning its power to go hand in hand with drawing. Drafting and coloring are now in partnership, the former having given up guardianship when ...
— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh
... was answered. "When a man falls so low, the case is hopeless. He is the slave of an appetite that never gives up its victims. It is a sad and a sorrowful thing, I know, to abandon all efforts to save a human soul, to see it go drafting off into the rapids with the sound of the cataract in your ears, and it is still more sad and sorrowful to be obliged to hold back the loving ones who could only perish in their vain attempts at rescue. So I view the case. ...
— Danger - or Wounded in the House of a Friend • T. S. Arthur
... self-administering territory of New Zealand; note - Tokelauans are drafting a constitution and developing institutions and patterns of self-government as Tokelau moves toward ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... fishermen forgot their nets; and the limber tongues of the town gossips steadily increased their clatter. Don Mario's store and patio assumed the functions of a departmental office. Daily he might be seen laboriously drafting letters of incredible length and wearisome prolixity to acting-Bishop Wenceslas; and nightly he was engaged in long colloquies and whispered conferences with Don Luis and others of his followers ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking


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