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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.





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"Drafting" Quotes from Famous Books



... Liberal Front Bench in the Upper House (where he took an active part in criticism of Conservative policy), and Sir Charles called this proceeding "taking the bread out of a private member's mouth," despite the implied compliment to his tact in drafting the Resolution. Sunday, the 23rd March, he spent at Mentmore, Lord Rosebery's house, where Lord and Lady Granville were staying, ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... RECORDS AND PROGRAMMES ON THE WORK.—The most noteworthy result of the closer relations between records and programmes which appear during the evolution of Scientific Management is the fact that they cause constant simplification. The more carefully records are standardized, the simpler becomes the drafting of the programme. As more and more records become standard, the drafting of programmes becomes constantly an ...
— The Psychology of Management - The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and - Installing Methods of Least Waste • L. M. Gilbreth
... "You can surpass their best drafting at the shop! Your fortune is made. Any time you want to go to Onabasha you can make enough to pay your board, dress you well, and save something every week. You must leave here as soon as you can manage it. When ...
— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter
... men this way and that before the fight began, drafting them out as easily as goatherds draft their flocks when they have got mixed while feeding; and among them went King Agamemnon, with a head and face like Jove the lord of thunder, a waist like Mars, and a chest like ...
— The Iliad • Homer
... therefore, nobody can very well deny. That it is a force generally exercised for good—despite the World War—I myself, as an engineer, can truly testify. With some fifteen years spent on the creative end of the work—the drafting and designing end—I have yet to see, with but two or three rare exceptions, the genius of engineers turned into any but ...
— Opportunities in Engineering • Charles M. Horton


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