Synonyms of the word

draft

• n. (possibly archaic) The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something…
• n. (possibly archaic) The act of drawing in a net for fish.
• n. (possibly archaic) That which is drawn in; a catch, a haul.
• n. An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing; a preliminary sketch or outline.
• n. (nautical) Depth of water needed to float a ship; depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's…
• n. A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
• n. Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
• n. An amount of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) that is drunk in one swallow.
• n. Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
• n. A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
• n. Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
• n. (politics) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
• n. (sports) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
• n. (rail transport) The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
• n. The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the…
• v. (transitive) To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
• v. To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
• v. To write a law.
• v. (transitive) To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
• v. To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
• v. (transitive, sports) To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
• v. (intransitive) To follow very closely behind another vehicle, thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage…
• v. To draw out; to call forth. See draft.
• v. To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
• adj. (not comparable) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.

blueprint

• n. A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical…
• n. A print produced with this process.
• n. (architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically…
• n. (informal, by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
• v. To make a blueprint for.
• v. To make a detailed operational plan for.

compose

• v. (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
• v. (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
• v. (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create…
• v. (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
• v. To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
• v. To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
• v. To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
• v. (printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

conscription

• n. involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
• n. An enrolling or registering.

deglutition

• n. (physiology) The act or process of swallowing.

depth

• n. The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep.
• n. The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet.
• n. (figuratively) The intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation,…
• n. Lowness.
• n. (computing, colors) The total palette of available colors.
• n. (art, photography) The property of appearing three-dimensional.
• n. (literary, usually in the plural) The deepest part. (Usually of a body of water.).
• n. (literary, usually in the plural) A very remote part.
• n. The most severe part.
• n. (logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension…
• n. (horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
• n. (aeronautics) The perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface.
• n. (statistics) The lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values.

design

• n. A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
• n. A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
• n. The composition of a work of art.
• n. Intention or plot.
• n. The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
• n. The art of designing.
• v. (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

dose

• n. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
• n. The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
• n. A venereal infection.
• v. to administer a dose.
• v. to prescribe a dose.

draught

• n. (Britain) Alternative form of draft in its various senses.
• n. (Britain) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
• n. (Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
• n. (Britain, medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
• n. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) Any picture or drawing.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A sudden attack upon an enemy.
• v. British spelling spelling of draft.

drawing

• v. present participle of draw.
• n. A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
• n. (uncountable) The act of producing such a picture.
• n. Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
• n. The process of drawing or pulling something.
• n. An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of…
• n. A small portion of tea for steeping.

drink

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
• v. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
• v. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
• v. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
• n. A beverage.
• n. A (served) alcoholic beverage.
• n. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
• n. A type of beverage (usually mixed).
• n. Alcoholic beverages in general.
• n. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink.

enlist

• v. (transitive) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
• v. (intransitive) To join a cause or organization, especially military service.
• v. (transitive) To recruit the aid or membership of others.
• v. To secure, to obtain.

enrol

• v. (Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland) Standard spelling of enroll.

enroll

• v. (transitive) To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list.
• v. (transitive) To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.
• v. (intransitive) To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To envelop; to enwrap.

enter

• v. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
• v. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
• v. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
• v. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
• v. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
• v. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
• v. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
• v. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in…
• v. to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods),…
• v. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars…
• v. to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”).

gulp

• n. The usual amount swallowed.
• n. The sound of swallowing.
• n. A sound of swallowing indicating fear.
• v. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
• v. To react nervously by swallowing.
• interj. Indication of an involuntary fear reaction.

indite

• v. (transitive) To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe.
• v. (transitive) To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose.
• v. To dictate; to prompt.
• v. (obsolete) To invite or ask.
• v. (obsolete) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
• n. (mineralogy) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.

inscribe

• v. (transitive) To write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave.
• v. (geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.

militarisation

• n. Alternative form of militarization.

militarization

• n. The process whereby some area of land or procedure becomes controlled by the military or administered…

mobilisation

• n. the act of mobilising.

mobilization

• n. The act of mobilizing.
• n. The marshalling of troops and national resources in preparation for war.
• n. The process by which the armed forces of a nation are brought to a state of readiness for a conflict.
• n. (geology) The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place.
• n. (genetics) The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another.

muster

• n. Gathering.
• n. Showing.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show, exhibit.
• v. (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a…
• v. (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders,…
• v. (transitive, US) To enroll (into service).

outline

• n. A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
• n. The outer shape of an object or figure.
• n. A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
• n. A general description of some subject.
• n. A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
• n. A preliminary plan for a project.
• n. (film industry) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and…
• v. (transitive) To draw an outline of something.
• v. (transitive) To summarize something.

pen

• n. An enclosed area used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
• n. A place to confine a person; a prison cell, though likelier an abbreviation of penitentiary.
• n. (baseball) The bullpen.
• v. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
• n. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used…
• n. (figuratively) A writer, or his style.
• n. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
• n. A light pen.
• n. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
• n. (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
• n. (poetic) A wing.
• v. (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
• n. A female swan.
• n. penalty.

plan

• n. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often…
• n. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
• n. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as…
• n. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
• n. A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an internet plan.
• v. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To create a plan for.
• v. (intransitive) To intend.
• v. See plan on.
• v. (intransitive) To make a plan.

potation

• n. (often plural) The act of drinking.
• n. A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

pulling

• v. present participle of pull.
• n. The act by which something is pulled.

recruit

• n. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
• n. A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
• n. A hired worker.
• n. (biology, ecology) A new member of a certain population, usually referring to a juvenile.
• v. To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports…
• v. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster.
• v. (archaic) To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy lack or deficiency in.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.
• v. (biochemistry) To prompt a protein, leucocyte etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.

regulator

• n. A device that controls or limits something.
• n. A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially those established by law.
• n. A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
• n. (genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
• n. (rail transport) A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.

sketch

• v. To make a brief, basic drawing.
• v. To describe briefly and with very few details.
• n. A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude…
• n. A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
• n. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
• n. A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; eg. a short, often humorous…
• n. (informal) An amusing person.
• n. (slang, Ireland) Keeping sketch: to keep a lookout.
• n. (Britain) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase…
• n. (mathematics) A category together with a set of limit cones and a set of colimit cones.
• adj. Sketchy, shady, questionable.

study

• v. (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them,…
• v. (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
• v. To acquire knowledge on a subject.
• v. To look at minutely.
• v. To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
• v. To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
• n. (obsolete) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
• n. (archaic) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one's concern.
• n. Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
• n. The act of studying or examining; examination.
• n. Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
• n. A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of…
• n. An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
• n. (music) A piece for special practice; an étude.

swallow

• v. (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach…
• v. (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
• v. (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus…
• v. (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
• v. To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
• v. To retract; to recant.
• v. To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
• n. (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
• n. The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
• n. A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked…
• n. (nautical) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

swig

• v. To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
• v. (obsolete) To suck.
• v. (nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling…
• n. A long draught from a drink.
• n. (nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
• n. Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.

text

• n. A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
• n. A book, tome or other set of writings.
• n. (colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
• n. (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data).
• n. A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
• n. Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.; topic; theme.
• n. A style of writing in large characters; text-hand; also, a kind of type used in printing.
• v. (transitive) To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or…
• v. (intransitive) To send and receive text messages.
• v. To write in large characters, as in text hand.

tipple

• n. An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
• n. (rail transport) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this…
• n. (slang) Any alcoholic drink.
• v. To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.
• v. To drink too much alcohol.
• v. To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.
• v. To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.

wind

• n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
• n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
• n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
• n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
• n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
• n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
• n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
• n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
• n. A bird, the dotterel.
• n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
• v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
• v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
• v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
• v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
• v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
• v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
• v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
• v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
• v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
• v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
• v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
• v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
• v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
• n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

write

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
• v. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To send written information to.
• v. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
• v. (intransitive) To be an author.
• v. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.
• v. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
• v. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
• v. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
• n. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.