ALL meanings of draughts
draught
D d - noun draughts a drawing, sketch, or design. 1
- noun draughts a first or preliminary form of any writing, subject to revision, copying, etc. 1
- noun draughts act of drawing; delineation. 1
- noun draughts a current of air in any enclosed space, especially in a room, chimney, or stove. 1
- noun draughts a current of air moving in an upward or downward direction. 1
- noun draughts a device for regulating the current of air in a stove, fireplace, etc. 1
- noun draughts an act of drawing or pulling loads. 1
- noun draughts something that is drawn or pulled; a haul. 1
- noun draughts an animal or team of animals used to pull a load. 1
- noun draughts the force required to pull a load. 1
- noun draughts the taking of supplies, forces, money, etc., from a given source. 1
- noun draughts a selection or drawing of persons, by lot or otherwise, from the general body of the people for military service; levy; conscription. 1
- noun draughts the persons so selected. 1
- noun draughts Sports. a selecting or drawing of new players from a choice group of amateur players by professional teams, especially a system of selecting new players so that each team in a professional league receives some of the most promising players. 1
- noun draughts British. a selection of persons already in military service to be sent from one post or organization to another; detachment. 1
- noun draughts a written order drawn by one person upon another; a writing directing the payment of money on account of the drawer; bill of exchange. 1
- noun draughts a drain or demand made on anything. 1
- noun draughts draft beer. 1
- noun draughts an act of drinking or inhaling. 1
- noun draughts something that is taken in by drinking or inhaling; a drink; dose. 1
- noun draughts a quantity of fish caught. 1
- noun draughts Nautical. the depth to which a vessel is immersed when bearing a given load. 1
- noun draughts Also called leave. Metallurgy. the slight taper given to a pattern so that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold. 1
- noun draughts Metalworking. the change in sectional area of a piece of work caused by a rolling or drawing operation. a taper on a die or punch permitting it to be withdrawn readily from the work. 1
- noun draughts Masonry. a line or border chiseled at the edge of a stone, to serve as a guide in leveling the surfaces. 1
- noun draughts Textiles. the degree of attenuation produced in fibers during yarn processing, expressed either by the ratio of the weight of raw to the weight of processed fiber, or by the ratio between the varying surface speeds of the rollers on the carding machine. the act of attenuating the fibers. 1
- noun draughts an allowance granted to a buyer for waste of goods sold by weight. 1
- verb with object draughts to draw the outlines or plan of; sketch. 1
- verb with object draughts to draw up in written form; compose. 1
- verb with object draughts to draw or pull. 1
- verb with object draughts to take or select by draft, especially for military service. 1
- verb with object draughts Masonry. to cut a draft on. 1
- verb without object draughts to do mechanical drawing; work as a draftsman. 1
- verb without object draughts (in an automobile race) to drive or ride close behind another car so as to benefit from the reduction in air pressure created behind the car ahead. 1
- adjective draughts used or suited for drawing loads: a draft horse. 1
- adjective draughts drawn or available to be drawn from a cask rather than served from a sealed bottle: draft ale. 1
- adjective draughts being a tentative or preliminary outline, version, design, or sketch. 1
- idioms draughts on draft, available to be drawn from a cask rather than from a sealed bottle: imported beer on draft. 1
- noun draughts Checkers. 1
- uncountable noun draughts Draughts is the same as checkers. 0
- noun draughts a game for two players using a draughtboard and 12 draughtsmen each. The object is to jump over and capture the opponent's pieces 0
- noun draughts the game of checkers 0
- noun draughts plural of draught. 0
- noun draughts (Uncountable Noun) (board games, Britain) A board game for two players in which the players each have 20 pieces, known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces. (See the Wikipedia page for the full rules of the game. There are various variants of the game.). 0
- noun draughts A mild vesicatory. 0
- verb draughts third-person singular simple present indicative form of draught. 0