Draft

/dɹɑːft/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
2. The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.
3. An act of drinking.
4. The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
5. A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
6. Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
7. 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.
8. A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.

Example Sentences

to drink at a draft

She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.

From 1767 to 1774 no pale wine was bottled but for immediate use; only draft wine of all kinds was used in the principal taverns, and it was often very bad, not from tricks of the vintners, but from bad management.

Another positive trend is the increase of quality in draft cider options. Draft cider has often been, and sometimes still is, considered an inferior product by cider traditionalists, who believe a true cider should come in a bottle or[…]

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

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

Dr Richard Beeching's handwritten draft of his report survives in the National Archives.

He left the country to avoid the draft.

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• drafts
• draught
• drafting
• drafted

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