English Dictionary

draft

/dɹɑːft/

noun

A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle. / The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. / An act of drinking.

There was a draft coming from the open window.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

An act of drinking.

意味（4）

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

to drink at a draft

意味（5）

A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.)

意味（6）

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

意味（7）

(nautical) The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.

意味（8）

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

I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.

意味（9）

A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.

意味（10）

A cheque, an order for money to be paid.

意味（11）

(usually with the) Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.

He left the country to avoid the draft.

意味（12）

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

意味（13）

(sports) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.

意味（14）

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

意味（15）

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

意味（16）

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

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in the U.S., strong ploughs requiring the draft of four and sometimes six oxen were frequently used for breaking land which had previously lain fallow for several years.

意味（17）

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

意味（18）

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

He cast his net, which brought him a very great draft.

意味（19）

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

As an instance: amongst a draft of young hounds from Earl F itzwilliam's was one, of whom Will Deane, his huntsman, made this remark in his letter, 'that he could not guess at Lord Foley's dislike to the hound called Glider, then sent, which was of the best blood in the country, being got by Mr. Meynell's Glider out of Lord Fitzwilliam's Blossom, and was moreover the most promising young hound he had ever entered;...