Word Finder - draft

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A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.

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

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An act of drinking.

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The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.

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She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.

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A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.)

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Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.

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Depth of water needed to float a ship; depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull; depth of water drawn by a vessel.

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An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.

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

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A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.

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A cheque, an order for money to be paid.

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

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He left the country to avoid the draft.

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A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.

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A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.

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

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The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.

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(possibly obsolete) The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.

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using oxen for draft   shot forth an arrow with a mighty draft

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(possibly obsolete) The act of drawing in a net for fish.

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(possibly obsolete) That which is drawn in; a catch, a haul.

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he cast his net, which brought him a very great draft

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A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population.

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To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.

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To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

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To write a law.

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To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.

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He was drafted during the Vietnam War.

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To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.

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There was a campaign to draft Smith to run for President.

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

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The calves were drafted from the cows.

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To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.

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After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins.

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

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To draw out; to call forth.

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To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.

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Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.

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

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Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.

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A Clydesdale is a draft horse.

It was a draft of the work published in 1650 under the same title.

Even the smallest draft will cause a candle to flicker.

Your first draft does not have to be perfect.

The facts of the problem would all appear covered by the hypothesis that John the presbyter, the eleven being all dead, wrote the book of Revelation (its more ancient Christian portions) say in 69, and died at Ephesus say in loo; that the author of the Gospel wrote the first draft, here, say in 97; that this book, expanded by him, first circulated within a select Ephesian Christian circle; and that the Ephesian church officials added to it the appendix and published it in 110 -120.

Provided the ship is designed to float upright at the smallest draft with no load on board, the stability at any other draft of water can be arranged by the stowage of the weight, high or low.

Draw a rough draft on a piece of paper and get it just right.

The original draft of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 was prepared by Vice-President Thomas Jefferson, although the fact that he was the author of them was kept from the public until he acknowledged it in 1821.

Each draft may be worked into a quality of its own, and by such means the most level yarns are obtained.

Enjoy a full service bar with bottled and draft beer or wine.

The restaurant has an extensive wine list and offers several draft and bottled beer selections.

The result was that a representative assembly of delegates was elected, empowered to draft a constitution.

The restaurant offers a full bar with draft and bottled beer, wine, and signature margaritas.

There is a large selection of draft beers and bottles.

There is a kids menu, tempting desserts and a drinks menu with draft beer, non-alcoholic beverages and exotic cocktails.

Any member may bring in a " project of law," but it has to be submitted to the minister of the department concerned, who is allowed a month to consider it, and himself prepares the final draft laid on the table of the House.

The negotiations were successful, but the draft treaty failed to pass the United States Senate.

He presented a draft of the famous " Solemn League and Covenant," which was received with great enthusiasm.

Fortunately, although the draft of an ultimatum was lying in the state secretary's office in Pretoria, the Boers, unprepared in departmental arrangements which are necessary in large military operations, were unable to take the field with the promptitude that the situation demanded.

In all the others, and especially in the last three, the continuity of the argument is frequently broken by passages which must have been inserted after the first draft of the arguments was written out.

The "Tom Thumb," as Cooper called the locomotive, was about the size of a modern hand-car; as the natural draft was far from sufficient, Cooper devised a blowing apparatus.

On the 1st of August 1907 the Belgian minister in London transmitted to Sir Edward Grey a draft, additional act prepared by the commission for carrying out the proposal of His Britannic Majesty's government, and on the 28th of August following an additional act was signed at Brussels by the plenipotentiaries of the contracting parties, by which they undertook to maintain the convention of the 5th of March 1902 in force for a fresh period of five years.

As a literary composition they do not rank very high, which may be due partly to the author's years, partly to the inequality of his sources, sometimes superabundant, sometimes defective, partly perhaps to the somewhat hasty condensation of his original draft.

All these plans failed at the critical moment, and the most effective work done by the order was in encouraging desertion from the Federal armies, preventing enlistments, and resisting the draft.

Immediately after his return from Montreal he was a member of the committee of five appointed to draw up the Declaration of Independence, but he took no actual part himself in drafting that instrument, aside from suggesting the change or insertion of a few words in Jefferson's draft.

Three theologians, including a conservative Lutheran, were chosen to draft 1555.

During the war all but twelve small townships raised troops in excess of every call, the excess throughout the state amounting in all to more than 15,000 men; while the total recruits to the Federal army (including re-enlistments) numbered, according to the adjutantgeneral of the state, 159,165 men, of which less than 7000 were raised by draft.

No less than ten draft treaties were discussed in vain between August 1903 and February 1904, and finally negotiations were broken off on February 5th.1 Japan had already on the 4th decided to use force, and her military and naval preparations, unlike those of Russia, kept pace with her diplomacy.

The memorandum from the queen on this point was the prince consort's last political draft.

Even in the Bill of Rights the phrase "Protestant religion" occurs, but not "Protestant Church," and it was reserved for the Liberal government, in the original draft (afterwards changed) of the Accession Declaration Bill introduced in 1910, to suggest "Protestant Reformed Church of England" as a new title for the Established Church.

The ruthless determination of the superior leaders had been answered splendidly by the devotion of the troops, but the men of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg were mostly dead or wounded, and the recruits attracted by bounties or compelled by the "draft," which had at last been enforced in the North, proved far inferior soldiers to the gallant veterans whom they replaced.

In July 1898 Lord Peel drew up a draft report for discussion, in five parts.

Some differences of opinion arose in connexion with the report, and at a meeting of the commissioners on the 12th of April 1899, when part 5 of the draft report was to be considered, a proposal was made to substitute an alternative draft for Lord Peel's, and also a series of alternative drafts for the four sections already discussed.

He lost no time in entering into fresh negotiations with the French government, and a draft treaty was already early in October drawn up in Paris and the Count d'Estrades was commissioned to deliver it in person to the prince of Orange.

Kentucky is governed under a constitution adopted in 1891.3 A convention to revise the constitution or to draft a new one meets on the call of two successive legislatures, ratified by a majority of the popular vote, provided that majority be at least one-fourth of the total number of votes cast at the preceding general election.

The city is in a blue grass country, in which much live stock is bred; and it is an important market for draft horses.

Because, then, it is very like, but more rudimentary and more Platonic, we conclude that the Eudemian is an earlier draft of the Nicomachean Ethics, written by Aristotle when he was still in process of transition from Plato's ethics to his own.

Because, then, the Magna Moralia is very like the Nicomachean Ethics, but more rudimentary, nearer to the Platonic dialogues in style and to a less degree in matter, and also like the Eudemian Ethics, we conclude that it is also like that treatise in having been written as an earlier draft of the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle himself.

The intention of the Hague draft annexed to the Vc u was to create a permanent court as distinguished from that established in 1899, which, though called permanent, was not so, having to be put together ad hoc as the occasion arose.

On the 11th of May he sent the draft to Luther, who approved it, adding that he himself "could not tread so softly and gently."

His treatise De natura novi orbis libri duo (Salamanca, 1588-1589) may be regarded as the preliminary draft of his celebrated Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Seville, 1590) which was speedily translated into Italian (1596), French (1597), Dutch (1598), German (1601), Latin (1602) and English (1604).

Though a few Unionists transferred their allegiance, notably Mr. Winston Churchill, and by-elections went badly, Mr Balfour still commanded a considerable though a dwindling majority, and the various contrivances of the opposition for combining all free-traders against the government were obstructed by the fact that anything tantamount to a vote of censure would not be supported by the "wobblers" in the ministerial party, while the government could always manage to draft some "safe" amendment acceptable to most of them.

It was suspected, although denied, that a treaty was in draft under which Russia should assume the suzerainty of Tibet.

The achievement would have been impossible, but for the fact that Grotius had with him the first draft of the work made in 1604.

A provisional draft of a treaty had already been drawn up before the demise of Frederick Henry, and afterwards, despite the strenuous opposition of the new prince of Orange (who, under the Acte de Survivance, had inherited all his father's offices and dignities) and of two of the provinces, Zeeland and Utrecht, the negotiations were by the powerful support of the States of Holland and of the majority of the States-General, quickly brought to a successful issue.

Pieces of very small cross section, like wire, are more conveniently made by drawing through a die than by rolling, essentially because a single draft reduces the cross section of a wire much more than a single pass between rolls can.

The city is built on sandy ground on both sides of the river and has a good harbour, which has been considerably improved by the Federal government; in 1907 the maximum draft that could be carried over the shallowest part of the channel was 14 ft.

We are therefore to understand, first, that he wrote the earliest draft of his political theory some years before the outbreak of the Civil War, and, secondly, that this earliest draft was not written till, in accordance with his philosophical conception, he had established the grounds of polity in human nature.

The draft code of civil procedure, which was published in December 1872, introduced many important reforms, especially by substituting public and verbal procedure for the older German system, under which the proceedings were almost entirely carried on by written documents.

A draft of a constitution in Randolph's handwriting, discovered in 1887, seems to have been the report (6th August) of a Committee of Detail of five members (John Rutledge, Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Gorham, Oliver Ellsworth and James Wilson).

The third part of the system - the ethical theory - seems to have been composed afterwards; it is contained in its first draft in another MS. of 30 sheets.