Definitions for Draft
dræft, drɑftdraft

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.2 / 10 votes

1. draft, bill of exchange, order of paymentnoun

   a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another

2. draft, draughtnoun

   a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)

3. draft, rough drawingnoun

   a preliminary sketch of a design or picture

4. draft, draught, potation, tipplenoun

   a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg

   "they served beer on draft"

5. draft, draft copynoun

   any of the various versions in the development of a written work

   "a preliminary draft"; "the final draft of the constitution"

6. draft, draughtnoun

   the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)

7. draftnoun

   a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace

8. draft, draughtnoun

   a dose of liquid medicine

   "he took a sleeping draft"

9. conscription, muster, draft, selective servicenoun

   compulsory military service

10. gulp, draft, draught, swignoun

    a large and hurried swallow

    "he finished it at a single gulp"

11. draft, draught, drawingverb

    the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

12. draft, outlineverb

    draw up an outline or sketch for something

    "draft a speech"

13. enlist, draft, muster inverb

    engage somebody to enter the army

14. blueprint, draft, draughtverb

    make a blueprint of

GCIDERate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Draftnoun

   A quantity of liquid poured out for drinking; a dose.

2. Draftnoun

   The act of drawing a quantity of liquid from a large container; also, the quantity of liquid so drawn.

3. Draftnoun

   A device for regulating the flow of gases in a chimney, stovepipe, fireplace, etc.; as, to close the chimney draft. It is usually a flat plate of the same internal dimensions as the flue, which can be rotated to be parallel to or perpendicular to the current of gases.

4. Draftverb

   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.

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. draftnoun

   An early version of a written work

   I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.

2. draftnoun

   A preliminary sketch, rough outline

   His first drafts were better than most authors' final products.

3. draftnoun

   Depth of water needed to float a ship [also spelled draught].

4. draftnoun

   A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle [also spelled draught].

5. draftnoun

   Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.

6. draftnoun

   A cheque, an order for money to be paid

7. draftnoun

   An amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow [also spelled draught]

   She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.

8. draftnoun

   conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.

   He left the country to avoid the draft.

9. draftnoun

   A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams

10. draftverb

    to write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.

11. draftverb

    write a law

12. draftverb

    to conscript a person, force a person to serve in the military

13. draftverb

    to select and separate an animal or animals from a group.

14. draftverb

    to force or convince a person to do a job they do not want to do

15. draftverb

    to select a rookie player onto a professional sports team

16. draftverb

    To follow very closely behind another vehicle, thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower, thereby conserving energy or increasing speed.

17. draftverb

    the act of drawing fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn

18. draftnoun

    the pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.

19. draftadjective

    Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled

    I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer.

20. Etymology: draught, from dragan; see draw.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Draftadjective

   Etymology: corrupt for draught.

   Ulysses and old Nestor yoke you like draft oxen, and make you plough up the wair. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Draftadjective

   pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught

2. Draftadjective

   relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught

3. Draftverb

   to draw the outline of; to delineate

4. Draftverb

   to compose and write; as, to draft a memorial

5. Draftverb

   to draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select

6. Draftverb

   to transfer by draft

7. Etymology: [The same word as draught. OE. draught, draht, fr. AS. dragan to draw. See Draw, and cf. Draught.]

FreebaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Draft

   A draft is a process used to allocate certain players to sports teams. In a draft, teams take turns selecting from a pool of eligible players. When a team selects a player, the team receives exclusive rights to sign that player to a contract, and no other team in the league may sign the player. The best-known type of draft is the entry draft, which is used to allocate players who have recently become eligible to play in a league. Depending on the sport, the players may come from college, high school or junior teams or teams in other countries. An entry draft prevents expensive bidding wars for young talent and ensures that no one team can sign contracts with all of the best young players and make the league uncompetitive. To encourage parity, teams that do poorly in the previous season usually get to choose first in the postseason draft. Other types of drafts include the expansion draft, in which a new team selects players from other teams in the league; and the dispersal draft, in which a league's surviving teams select players from the roster of a newly defunct franchise. Drafts are usually permitted under anti-trust or restraint of trade laws because they are included in collective bargaining agreements between leagues and labor unions representing players. These agreements generally stipulate that after a certain number of seasons, a player whose contract has expired becomes a free agent and can sign with any team. They also require minimum and sometimes maximum salaries for newly drafted players.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Draft

   dräft, n. anything drawn: a selection of men from an army, &c.: an order for the payment of money: lines drawn for a plan: a rough sketch: the depth to which a vessel sinks in water.—v.t. to draw an outline of: to compose and write: to draw off: to detach.—ns. Draft′-bar, a swingle-tree, the bar to which the coupling of a railway-carriage is attached; Draft′-horse, a horse used for drawing the plough, heavy loads, &c., in distinction to a carriage or saddle horse; Draft′-ox, an ox used for drawing loads; Drafts′man, one who draws plans or designs; Drafts′manship. [A corr. of Draught.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. draft

   1. The conscription of qualified citizens in military service. See also active duty; Military Service. 2. The depth of water that a vessel requires to float freely; the depth of a vessel from the water line to the keel. See also watercraft.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. DRAFT

   (DRAUGHT) What gives a cold, cures a cold, and pays the doctor's bill.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. draft

   A small allowance for waste on goods sold by weight.

2. draft

   The depth of water a ship displaces, or of a body of fluid necessary to float a vessel; hence a ship is said to draw so many feet of water when she requires that depth to float her, which, to be more readily known, are marked on the stem and stern-post from the keel upwards. Also, the old name for a chart. Also, the delineation of a ship designed to be built, drawn on a given scale, generally a quarter-inch to the foot, for the builders. (See SHEER-DRAUGHT.)

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. draft

   A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or any part of it, or from a military post; also from any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large for military service.

2. draft

   See Draught.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DRAFT

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Draft is ranked #80419 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Draft surname appeared 236 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Draft.
   
   54.6% or 129 total occurrences were White.
   40.2% or 95 total occurrences were Black.
   3.8% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Authorship
   • Depth
   • Dose
   • Drink
   • Negotiable Instrument
   • Regulator
   • Swallow
   • Wind
   • Write

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Draft' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3814

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Draft' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3397

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Draft' in Nouns Frequency: #1456

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Draft' in Verbs Frequency: #861

How to pronounce Draft?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Draft in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Draft in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Draft in a Sentence

1. Mark Duro:

   The draft guidance would have made a difference if it had been finalized, this was asking the manufacturers to give us more information about how to reprocess the (duodenoscopes), and every bit of additional information would be better than we have now.

2. James Leibold:

   One of the big concerns I have with this draft counter-terrorism bill is that the definition of terrorism is quite vague and open-ended and if we look at how Chinese officials and the media have used the terrorism tag in the past, it's chiefly applied to the Uyghurs as well as the Tibetans.

3. Barbara Flynn Currie:

   We can’t draft a budget with magic money that does not exist.

4. Hair:

   The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.

5. Bowornsak Uwanno:

   We are still drafting the constitution. If there is any part that worries society then the committee is ready to listen, there is time until the end of March. We will introduce the draft in April. Don't worry yet.

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