draft — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

1. Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows: A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.

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   • cách dùng ở Mỹ
   • đếm được
   • không đếm được

2. Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows: The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.

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   • đếm được
   • không đếm được

3. Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows: An act of drinking.

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   • cách dùng ở Mỹ
   • đếm được
   • không đếm được

4. Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows: The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.

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   • cách dùng ở Mỹ
   • đếm được
   • không đếm được

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   swig

   Ví dụ

   to drink at a draft

   She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.

5. Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows: A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).

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   • đếm được
   • không đếm được

6. Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows: Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.

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   • cách dùng ở Mỹ
   • đếm được
   • không đếm được

   Ví dụ

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   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[…]

7. Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows: 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.

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   • cách dùng ở Mỹ
   • đếm được
   • không đếm được

8. (Preliminary) written work: A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.

   Cách dùng

   • đếm được
   • không đếm được
   • in both American spelling and British spelling

   Ví dụ

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

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

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

9. (Preliminary) written work: An unsent e-mail.

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   • đếm được
   • không đếm được
   • in both American spelling and British spelling

10. (Preliminary) written work: A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.

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    • đếm được
    • không đếm được
    • in both American spelling and British spelling

11. (Preliminary) written work: An order for money to be paid; the document that states it: a cheque, note, bond, bill of exchange, money order, or IOU.

    Cách dùng

    • cổ ngữ
    • đếm được
    • không đếm được
    • in both American spelling and British spelling

12. Senses relating to conscription or selection from a pool: Conscription; the system of forcing people to serve in the military.

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    • Canada
    • cách dùng ở Mỹ
    • đếm được
    • không đếm được
    • usually
    • with the
    • in both American spelling and British spelling

    Ví dụ

    He left the country to avoid the draft.

13. Senses relating to conscription or selection from a pool: A person who has been drafted; a conscript or draftee.

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    • đếm được
    • không đếm được
    • in both American spelling and British spelling

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    With these counsels, and many others equally valuable, did Papa Wick fortify Bobby ere that last awful night at Portsmouth when the Officers' Quarters held more inmates than were provided for by the Regulations, and the liberty-men of the ships fell foul of the drafts for India, and the battle raged from the Dockyard Gates even to the slums of Longport, while the drabs of Fratton came down and scratched the faces of the Queen's Officers.

14. Senses relating to conscription or selection from a pool: A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.

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    • cách dùng ở Mỹ
    • đếm được
    • không đếm được
    • in both American spelling and British spelling

15. Senses relating to conscription or selection from a pool: A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.

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    • cách dùng ở Mỹ
    • đếm được
    • không đếm được
    • in both American spelling and British spelling

16. Senses relating to conscription or selection from a pool: A style of play in collectible card games, where players select from a shared pool of cards.

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    • đếm được
    • không đếm được
    • in both American spelling and British spelling

17. Senses relating to conscription or selection from a pool: A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population.

    Cách dùng

    • British
    • English
    • cổ ngữ
    • đếm được
    • possibly
    • không đếm được
    • in both American spelling and British spelling

    Ví dụ

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    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;...

    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.

    The Complaint about the Beef lately furnished for the use of the Troops &c at Parramatta, is not without foundation; when I commenced supplying the several Stations with animal food in January last, — a Draft of very fat Oxen was brought from Wellington for that purpose, — that draft has met the consumption of several Stations until now. — the Cattle lately remaining fell very much off in condition, though I certainly consider they were not inferior to a great deal of Beef, I have seen taken from Contractors.

    An earlier draft of horses for the 4th Light Dragoons, however,was very different.

    The Light Brigade have got a draft of about 250 horses from England, and we expect ours shortly.

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

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    • đếm được
    • không đếm được

19. Senses relating to pulling: The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack (stretched) condition.

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    • đếm được
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20. Senses relating to pulling: The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.

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    • cách dùng ở Mỹ
    • cổ ngữ
    • đếm được
    • possibly
    • không đếm được

    Ví dụ

    using oxen for draft

    shot forth an arrow with a mighty draft

    Thêm ví dụ (1)

    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.

21. Senses relating to pulling: The act of drawing in a net for fish.

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    • cách dùng ở Mỹ
    • cổ ngữ
    • đếm được
    • possibly
    • không đếm được

22. Senses relating to pulling: That which is drawn in; a catch; a haul.

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    • cách dùng ở Mỹ
    • cổ ngữ
    • đếm được
    • possibly
    • không đếm được

    Ví dụ

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

23. A valley, or the stream that flows through it: A small stream or tributary.

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    • Appalachia
    • đếm được
    • không đếm được

    Ví dụ

    Crossing several ridges & hollows & two small drafts of water.

    Hollows were tributary to a cove or another type of sizable valley threaded by a creek or, in Pennsylvania, a “run,” and in Virginia, a “draft.”

24. A valley, or the stream that flows through it: A ravine or narrow valley, especially one through which a stream (at least intermittently) flows.

    Cách dùng

    • Appalachia
    • Pennsylvania
    • Virginia
    • West
    • đếm được
    • especially
    • không đếm được

    Ví dụ

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    [page 24:] About one quarter of a mile up the draft, the same blue-gray limestone is opened in a quarry on the Graham and Robinson farm, […] [page 31:] Up along a narrow draft heading south-east from the creek at Southern's place, a series of small pits and trenches have been dug close to the ridge […] above the level of the creek.

    Then came the pleasant toil up and down the ridges and drafts of the Knob.

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    Now you have left the dividing "backbone", and climb up and down a never-ending succession of ridges and "drafts," as the ravines are called. […] a searching reconnoitre of the next long draft opened to view.

Động từ

1. To write a first version; to make a preliminary sketch.

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   • ngoại động từ

2. To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

3. To write a law.

4. To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.

   Ví dụ

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

   They drafted me to be the chairperson of the new committee.

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   Class "H16" 4-6-2T No. 30516 has been drafted to the Fawley branch and is here seen working a 747-ton test train across Frost Lane crossing, near Hythe, on March 6 [...].

5. To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose. To conscript (a person); to force (a person) to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.

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   • cách dùng ở Mỹ
   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   He was drafted during the Vietnam War.

6. To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose. To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.

   Ví dụ

   The calves were drafted from the cows.

7. To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose. To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.

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   • cách dùng ở Mỹ
   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

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

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

   Cách dùng

   • nội hoặc ngoại động từ

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   slipstream

   Ví dụ

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   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.

9. To draw out; to call forth.

10. To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.

11. To play a collectible card game by strategically selecting from a shared pool of cards.

Tính từ

1. Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.

   Cách dùng

   • cách dùng ở Mỹ
   • not-comparable

   Ví dụ

   I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer.

2. Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.

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   • cách dùng ở Mỹ
   • not-comparable

   Ví dụ

   A Clydesdale is a draft horse.

Danh từ

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

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   bill of exchangeorder of payment

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   negotiable instrument

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

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   draught

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   windair currentcurrent of air

3. a preliminary sketch of a design or picture

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   rough drawing

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   sketchstudy

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

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   draughtpotationtipple

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   drink

   Ví dụ

   they served beer on draft

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

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   draft copy

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   texttextual matter

   Ví dụ

   a preliminary draft

   the final draft of the constitution

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

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   draught

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   depthdeepness

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

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   regulator

8. a dose of liquid medicine

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   draught

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   dosedosage

   Ví dụ

   he took a sleeping draft

9. compulsory military service

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   conscriptionmusterselective service

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   mobilizationmobilisationmilitarizationmilitarisation

10. a large and hurried swallow

    Từ đồng nghĩa

    gulpdraughtswig

    Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

    swallowdrinkdeglutition

    Ví dụ

    he finished it at a single gulp

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

    Từ đồng nghĩa

    draughtdrawing

    Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

    pullpulling

Động từ

1. draw up an outline or sketch for something

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   outline

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   writecomposepenindite

   Ví dụ

   draft a speech

2. engage somebody to enter the army

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   enlistmuster in

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   enrollinscribeenterenrolrecruitraise

3. make a blueprint of

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   blueprintdraught

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   planprojectcontrivedesign