Word Finder - drafts

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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.

Like almost all Universal Service countries, Italy only drafts a small proportion of the available recruits into the army.

In a few days he had completed rough drafts of the necessary apparatus, which he displayed to his fellow-passengers.

On the 29th of September Cardinal Ant onelli further apprised Baron Blanc that he was about to issue drafts for the monthly payment of the 50,000 crowns inscribed in the pontifical budget for the maintenance of the pope, the Sacred College, the apostolic palaces and the papal guards.

The Italian treasury at once honored all the papal drafts, and thus contributed a first instalment of the 3,225,000 lire per annum afterwards placed by Article 4 of the Law of Guarantees at the disposal of the Holy See.

In 1822, however, when he had just completed his seventeenth year, this intention was abandoned, and he entered as a clerk in the examiner's office of the India House, "with the understanding that he should be employed from the beginning in preparing drafts of despatches, and be thus trained up as a successor to those who then filled the highest departments of the office."

A large increase in imports, caused by fictitious prosperity and inability to obtain drafts against guano shipments, led to the exportation of coin to meet commercial obligations, and this soon reduced the currency circulation to a paper basis.

In the case of important despatches and correspondence, these, with the drafts of answers, are sent first to the permanent under-secretary, then to the prime minister, then to the sovereign and, lastly, are circulated among the members of the cabinet.

Up to 1908 the personnel was found by yearly drafts of two to three thousand men from army recruits designated by the minister of war; the term of service was 12 years, of which 5 were in the first line, 3 in the reserve, 4 in the coastguard.

If such drafts upon the reserve fund become necessary, they are to be made good in the following years out of the surplus above mentioned.

The majority of the banks are members of the Clearing House, Post Office Court, where a daily exchange of drafts representing millions of pounds sterling is effected.

Hamilton had cabled home asking for reinforcements and for very large drafts that were needed to bring the depleted units under his command up to their war establishment.

But as their numbers grew in the autumn, and as their headquarters staff noted how the invaders were dwindling away owing to transfers to Salonika and to no drafts arriving to replenish wastage, it became possible to keep a number of the Ottoman divisions in reserve, well in rear of the fighting fronts or else on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.

Besides the published writings, there are several memoranda, letters, rough drafts, &c., in the Shaftesbury papers in the Record Office.

In commercial and banking usage "cash" is sometimes confined to specie; it is also, in opposition to bills, drafts or securities, applied to bank-notes.

Of the vessels to be sent to Paris with American cargoes which were to be sold for the liquidation of French loans to the colonies made through Beaumarchais, few arrived; those that did come did not cover Beaumarchais's advances, and hardly a vessel came from America without word of fresh drafts on Franklin.

Their refutation of the Protestant positions seemed needlessly sharp to the emperor, and five drafts were made of it.

She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign ministers, before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse; to receive the foreign despatches in good time, and to have the drafts for her approval sent her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they must be sent off.

Accordingly, the prime ministers of all the self-governing colonies, with their families, were invited to come to London as the guests of the country to take part in the Jubilee procession; and drafts of the troops from every British colony and dependency were brought home for the same purpose.

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.

Or, extending himself as it were still more, he might write two drafts, or double versions of his own, on the same subject; e.g.

Also some writings are more rudimentary than others on the same subject; and some have the appearance of being first drafts of others.

These considerations make it probable that the author of all three treatises was Aristotle himself; while the analysis of the treatises favours the hypothesis that he wrote the Eudemian Ethics and the Magna Moralia more or less together as the rudimentary first drafts of the mature Nicomachean Ethics.

They are, in short, neither independent works, nor mere commentaries, but Aristotle's first drafts of his Ethics.

But occasionally one or more drafts are mixed together, when price is the determining factor.

In the first stages of the spun-silk industry, the silk was dressed before boiling the gum out; the resulting drafts were cut into lengths of one or two inches.

The drafts from the dressing frame are made into little parcels of a few ounces in weight, and given to the spreader, who opens out the silk and spreads it thinly and evenly on to the feeding sheet, placing a small portion of the silk only on the sheet.

The drafts for the other two laws were not so successful.

First the two ministries had to agree on the drafts of all the bills; then the bills had to be laid before the two parliaments.

The ministries are those of the interior, finance, public works, justice, war, foreign affairs and public instruction,1 and in each of these are prepared the drafts of decrees, which are then submitted to the council of ministers for approval, and on being signed by the khedive become law.

At Copenhagen his advisers were busy framing drafts of a Lex Regia Perpetua; and the one which finally won the royal favour was the famous Kongelov, or " King's Law."

Not the least of these burdens were the personal and irregular drafts of some of the executives upon the treasury and revenue officers, particularly the custom-house of this port, upon which the republic depended for the major part of its revenue.

He was especially anxious as the units which had suffered heavily during the last offensive were but newly filled with fresh drafts, and he had found reason before to fear the influence of some of the men fresh from the depots.

These last are a compromise between the opposite needs of short service, producing large reserves, and long service, which minimizes the seatransport of drafts; they are also influenced by the state of the labour market at any given moment, as recruiting is voluntary.

Originally meeting in all probability for more thoroughgoing study of the Cartesian philosophy, they looked naturally to Spinoza for guidance, and by and by we find him communicating systematic drafts of his own views to the little band of friends and students.

On the other hand, drafts had come up, the 9th Div.

The grounds of the supposition are some drafts occurring among his MSS.

In these drafts Leonardo describes in the first person, with sketches, a traveller's strange experiences in Egypt, Cyprus, Constantinople, the Cilician coasts about Mount Taurus and Armenia.

In 1641 Sir Christopher Hatton, foreseeing the war and dreading the ruin and spoliation of the Church, commissioned him to make exact drafts of all the monuments in Westminster Abbey and the principal churches in England, including Peterborough, Ely, Norwich, Lincoln.

Thus while in1882-1883the ratio of illiterate recruits amounted to 9.75%, in 1901 less than one quarter per cent of the military drafts were without schooling.

The spacious buildings at the back are devoted to the "Lehrbataillon," a battalion of infantry composed of drafts from different regiments trained here to ensure uniformity of drill throughout the army.

Two drafts of a complete p civil code were made and, although neither was enacted, particular changes of great moment were decreed.

In December 1860, on ascertaining that Floyd had honoured heavy drafts made by government contractors in anticipation of their earnings, the president requested his resignation.

There were many drafts and plans which never saw the light, ht but it was at last resolved to adopt the policy g ?

Please note that the College only accepts checks drawn on a UK clearing bank, sterling drafts or postal orders.

Under the light of a large candlestick several youths pursued the amusement of the popular game of drafts.

Fun for all ages is to be found on the putting greens, as well as with the giant chess and drafts.

We have a number of pieces, like those in drafts, set out on an infinite chessboard.

Also detailed were a large chessboard and a table for playing drafts.

Anybody claiming conformance to all of the POSIX standards (or drafts) is having you on.

The students will also submit a dossier of drafts of their own academic writing, which will be worked on with the tutor.