Synonyms of the word draught


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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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