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- [draft, drahft]
- /dræft, drɑft/
- /drɑːft/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [draft, drahft]
- /dræft, drɑft/
Definitions of draft word
- noun draft a drawing, sketch, or design. 1
- noun draft a first or preliminary form of any writing, subject to revision, copying, etc. 1
- noun draft act of drawing; delineation. 1
- noun draft a current of air in any enclosed space, especially in a room, chimney, or stove. 1
- noun draft a current of air moving in an upward or downward direction. 1
- noun draft a device for regulating the current of air in a stove, fireplace, etc. 1
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Parts of speech for Draft
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draft popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for draft
verb draft
- outline — the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- prepare — to put in proper condition or readiness: to prepare a patient for surgery.
- devise — If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it.
- design — When someone designs a garment, building, machine, or other object, they plan it and make a detailed drawing of it from which it can be built or made.
- forge — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
adjective draft
- provisional — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
noun draft
- summary — a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.
- version — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
- delineation — the act or process of delineating.
Antonyms for draft
verb draft
- disorganize — to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
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