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Draft   /dræft/   Listen
noun
Draft  n.  
1.
The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught. "Everything available for draft burden."
2.
(Mil.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted. "Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year."
3.
An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. "I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan."
4.
An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods.
5.
A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.
6.
The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.
7.
(Masonry)
(a)
A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.
(b)
A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.
8.
(Milling) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.
9.
(Naut.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.
10.
A current of air. Same as Draught.
11.
A quantity of liquid poured out for drinking; a dose.
12.
The act of drawing a quantity of liquid from a large container; also, the quantity of liquid so drawn.
13.
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.


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."


adjective
Draft  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught; as, a draft horse.
2.
Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught. Note: The forms draft and draught, in the senses above-given, are both in approved use.
Draft box, Draft engine, Draft horse, Draft net, Draft ox, Draft tube. Same as Draught box, Draught engine, etc. See under Draught.





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"Draft" Quotes from Famous Books



... "schweben" are not easily translated. The English words, by which we attempt to render them, are either vulgar or pedantic, or not of sufficiently general application. So "der Wolken Zug"—literally, The Draft, the Procession of clouds; freely—The Masses of the Clouds sweep ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III • Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief)
... before Congress agreed that war existed and over a month passed before Congress agreed upon the nature of the army to be raised. Nearly four months passed before the draft was made. ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening. It is but woman, it is a fragile vase, made ...
— The Confession of a Child of The Century • Alfred de Musset
... him in the spring of 1859. My father injured himself by a walk on his seventieth birthday (January 3, 1859), and his health afterwards showed symptoms of decline. In the autumn he was advised to go to Homburg; and thence, on August 30, he wrote his last letter, criticising a draft of a report which Fitzjames was preparing for the Education Commission, and suggesting a few sentences which would, he thinks, give greater clearness and emphasis to the main points. Immediately afterwards serious symptoms appeared, due, I believe, to the old break-down of 1847. My father ...
— The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. - A Judge of the High Court of Justice • Sir Leslie Stephen
... that my brother gave it to your father—or rather he sold it to him for a nominal sum. I must tell you that it was a most complicated transaction. He had the greatest difficulty in getting any lawyer to draft the deed of sale. There were so many ancient rights and privileges which it was impossible to deal with. Even now there are grave doubts as to the validity of the transaction. When nothing was heard of you, and we all concluded ...
— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim


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