draft

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
2. isim The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.
3. isim An act of drinking.
4. isim The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.

   “to drink at a draft”

5. isim A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
6. isim Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.

   “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.”

7. isim 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. isim A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.

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

9. isim An unsent e-mail.
10. isim A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
11. isim An order for money to be paid; the document that states it: a cheque, note, bond, bill of exchange, money order, or IOU.
12. isim Conscription; the system of forcing people to serve in the military.

    “He left the country to avoid the draft.”

13. isim A person who has been drafted; a conscript or draftee.
14. isim A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
15. isim A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
16. isim A style of play in collectible card games, where players select from a shared pool of cards.
17. isim A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population.

    “These drafts left between the 17th March and 28th April. After this there was no regular system of artillery drafts. A draft of 80 was detailed to take charge of horses on board ship as all cavalry drafts were for the time exhausted, and this draft sailed on the 30th June.”

18. isim The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack (stretched) condition.
19. isim The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
20. isim The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.

    “using oxen for draft”

21. fiil To write a first version; to make a preliminary sketch.
22. fiil To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
23. fiil To write a law.
24. fiil To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.

    “There was a campaign to draft Smith to run for President.”

25. fiil To conscript (a person); to force (a person) to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.

    “He was drafted during the Vietnam War.”

26. fiil To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.

    “The calves were drafted from the cows.”

27. fiil To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.

    “After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins.”

28. fiil To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.

    “At the restart, the positions of the Mercedes drivers was reversed. Hamilton drafted Bottas down to Turn One and took the lead around the outside, controlling the race from there.”

29. fiil To draw out; to call forth.
30. fiil To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.