draft
draft is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught. Note: The forms draft and draught, in the senses above-given, are both on approved use. Draft box, Draft engine, Draft horse, Draft net, Draft ox, Draft tube. Same as Draught box, Draught engine, etc. See under Draught.
- 2.To draw the outline of; to delineate.
- 3.To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
- 4.To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select. Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.
- 5.To transfer by draft. All her rents been drafted to London. Fielding.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abbreviate
- abbreviation
- abbreviature
- ablegate
- abridge
- abridgment
- abstract
- account
- accredit
- air
- airy
- album
- analecta
- analectic
- analysis
- and
- anthology
- apercu
- aside
- astatic
- away
- balloon
- banishment
- barm
- book
- brief
- bubble
- buoy
- buoyancy
- buoyant
- capital
- card
- cart
- circular
- cobweb
- collect
- collectanea
- commonplace
- compend
- compendious
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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