DRAFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draft mean? 

• DRAFT (noun)
  The noun DRAFT has 11 senses:

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

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

3. a preliminary sketch of a design or picture

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

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

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

7. a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace

8. a dose of liquid medicine

9. compulsory military service

10. a large and hurried swallow

11. the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

  Familiarity information: DRAFT used as a noun is familiar.

• DRAFT (verb)
  The verb DRAFT has 3 senses:

1. draw up an outline or sketch for something

2. engage somebody to enter the army

3. make a blueprint of

  Familiarity information: DRAFT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAFT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

bill of exchange; draft; order of payment

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

negotiable instrument (an unconditional order or promise to pay an amount of money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "draft"):

trade acceptance (a bill of exchange for a specific purchase; drawn on the buyer by the seller and bearing the buyer's acceptance)

time bill; time draft (a draft payable at a specified future date)

sight bill; sight draft (a draft payable on presentation)

bank check; check; cheque (a written order directing a bank to pay money)

acceptance; banker's acceptance (banking: a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank)

money order; postal order (a written order for the payment of a sum to a named individual; obtainable and payable at a post office)

dividend warrant (an order of payment (such as a check payable to a shareholder) in which a dividend is paid)

bank draft; banker's draft (a draft drawn by a bank against funds deposited in another bank)

redraft (a draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again)

inland bill (a bill of exchange that is both drawn and made payable in the same country)

foreign bill; foreign draft (a bill of exchange that is drawn in one country and made payable in another)

overdraft (a draft in excess of the credit balance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

draft; draught

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "draft"):

updraft (a strong upward air current)

downdraft (a strong downward air current)

Derivation:

drafty (not airtight)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A preliminary sketch of a design or picture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

draft; rough drawing

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

sketch; study (preliminary drawing for later elaboration)

Derivation:

draft (make a blueprint of)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

draft; draught; potation; tipple

Context example:

they served beer on draft

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

drink (a single serving of a beverage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "draft"):

quaff (a hearty draft)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

draft; draft copy

Context example:

the final draft of the constitution

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

text; textual matter (the words of something written)

Derivation:

draft (draw up an outline or sketch for something)

Sense 6

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

draft; draught

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

deepness; depth (the extent downward or backward or inward)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

regulator (any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.)

Sense 8

Meaning:

A dose of liquid medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

draft; draught

Context example:

he took a sleeping draft

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

dosage; dose (a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Compulsory military service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conscription; draft; muster; selective service

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

militarisation; militarization; mobilisation; mobilization (act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "draft"):

levy; levy en masse (the act of drafting into military service)

Derivation:

draft (engage somebody to enter the army)

Sense 10

Meaning:

A large and hurried swallow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

draft; draught; gulp; swig

Context example:

he finished it at a single gulp

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

deglutition; drink; swallow (the act of swallowing)

Sense 11

Meaning:

The act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

draft; draught; drawing

Hypernyms ("draft" is a kind of...):

pull; pulling (the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you)

• DRAFT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they draft    ... he / she / it drafts   
Past simple: drafted   
Past participle: drafted   
-ing form: drafting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Draw up an outline or sketch for something

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

draft; outline

Context example:

draft a speech

Hypernyms (to "draft" is one way to...):

compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)

Domain category:

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he draft his major works over a short period of time?

Derivation:

draft (any of the various versions in the development of a written work)

drafter (a writer of a draft)

drafting (writing a first version to be filled out and polished later)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Engage somebody to enter the army

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

draft; enlist; muster in

Hypernyms (to "draft" is one way to...):

enrol; enroll; enter; inscribe; recruit (register formally as a participant or member)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "draft"):

levy; raise; recruit (cause to assemble or enlist in the military)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

draft (compulsory military service)

draftee (someone who is drafted into military service)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make a blueprint of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

blueprint; draft; draught

Hypernyms (to "draft" is one way to...):

design; plan (make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

draft (a preliminary sketch of a design or picture)

drafting (the craft of drawing blueprints)

 Context examples 

In 2003, the Human Genome Project created a draft map of the human genome—all the genes in the human body.

(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)

The team’s effort has resulted in high-quality, near chromosomal draft genomes, which is the highest level of genomic mapping.

(Researchers sequence genome of a fungus that causes life-threatening pneumonia, NIH)

Examples include responses to information requests, additional draft labeling during negotiations, etc.

(Amendment Regulatory Submission, Food and Drug Administration)

The Greater Swiss Mountain Dog is a large, strong, muscular, draft dog.

(Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, NCI Thesaurus)

The terminology that includes terms that are in draft form and relevant to the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium.

(Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Proposed Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Holmes had picked up the pages which formed the rough draft of the will, and was looking at them with the keenest interest upon his face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When you have finished, relock both the original and the draft in the desk, and hand them over to me personally to-morrow morning.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Janet was drafted into the service of Mrs. Strong, where I saw her every day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She bruised her hands with hammering, and got cold working in a draft, which last affliction filled her with apprehensions for the morrow.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

High exposure to radiofrequency radiation (RFR) in rodents resulted in tumors in tissues surrounding nerves in the hearts of male rats, but not female rats or any mice, according to draft studies from the National Toxicology Program (NTP).

(High exposure to radiofrequency radiation linked to tumor activity in male rats, National Institutes of Health)