| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Draught.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb draught.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (draught) | 1. Make a blueprint of.[Wordnet]. 2. To draw out; to call forth.[Websters]. 3. To diminish or exhaust by drawing.[Websters]. 4. To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: draughting, draughted, draughts, draughter, draughters, draughtingly and draughtedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being shocked.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being projected. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being patterned or textured. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being tapered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being clotted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being tiered.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DRAUGHTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1751. (references) |
Specialty Definition: draught
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] Draft. . | 2: [Noun] The act of drawing; as a horse or ox fit for draught.. | 3: [Noun] The quality of being drawn; as a cart of plow of easy draught.. | 4: [Noun] The drawing of liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.. | 5: [Noun] The quantity of liquor drank at once.. | 6: [Noun] The act of delineating, or that which is delineated; a representation by lines, as the figure of a house, a machine, a fort, &c., described on paper.. | 7: [Noun] Representation by picture; figure painted, or drawn by the pencil.. | 8: [Noun] The act of drawing a net; a sweeping for fish.. | 9: [Noun] That which is taken by sweeping with a net; as a draught of fishes. Luke 5.. | 10: [Noun] The drawing or bending of a bow; the act of shooting with a bow and arrow.. | 11: [Noun] The act of drawing men from a military band, army or post; also, the forces drawn; a detachment. [See Draft, which is more generally used.]. | 12: [Noun] A sink or drain. Matthew 15.. | 13: [Noun] An order for the payment of money; a bill of exchange. [See Draft.]. | 14: [Noun] The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as a ship of twelve feet draught.. | 15: [Noun] In England, a small allowance on weighable goods, made by the king to the importer, or by the seller to the buyer, to insure full weight.. | 16: [Noun] A sudden attack or drawing on an enemy. [Query.]. | 17: [Noun] A writing composed.. | 18: [Noun] Draughts, a kind of game resembling chess.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| 19th Century Satire | What gives a cold, cures a cold, and pays the doctor's bill. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. | ||
| Food & Agriculture | 1: A single draught of a net. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: The depth of water which a ship requires to float freely. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Mechanical Engineering | The amount of taper in a mould necessary to allow the withdrawal of the moulding. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Metallurgy | The angle of taper on the side walls of the die impressions to permit the removal of the forging from the dies. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Physics | 1: Current of air in room, chimney, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: The pressure difference which causes a current of air or gases to flow through a flue, chimney, space, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: Unwanted local convective cooling of a person. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Public Administration | The distance from the bottom of a ship to its floating waterline. It plays a role in the seaworthiness and safety of the vessel. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Slang in 1811 | DRAUGHT, or BILL, ON THE PUMP AT ALDGATE. A bad or false bill of exchange. See ALDGATE. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Transportation | Depth between the water surface and the bottom of a craft. (Jane's Yearbooks, Surf. skimmer syst. , 69, p. 298). Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (Australia) A type of beer, brewed using a top-fermenting yeast; ale. (references) | 2: [Noun] (UK) A game piece used in the game of draughts. (references) | 3: [Noun] A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle). (references) | 4: [Noun] An amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow. She took a deep draught from the bottle of water. (references) | 5: [Noun] Capacity of being drawn. (references) | 6: [Noun] That which draws. (references) | 7: [Noun] That which is drawn. (references) | 8: [Noun] The act of drawing. (references) | 9: [Noun] The action or an act of pulling something along, esp. a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor. (references) | 10: [Noun] The depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull. (references) |
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Common Expressions: draught
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Angle of draught | The angle made with the plane over which a body is drawn by the line in which the pulling force acts, when the latter has the direction best adapted to overcome the obstacles of friction and the weight of the body. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Blast draught | The draught produced by a blower, as by blowing in air beneath a fire or drawing out the gases from above it. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Carlton Draught | Carlton Draught is a lager beer made by Carlton & United Beverages. It is the most popular full-strength beer sold on tap in Victoria, Australia. It is also sold in bottles and cans, but in this market its stablemate Victoria Bitter is probably more popular. It can also be found on tap in New South Wales and Queensland. In 2003, its formulation was changed slightly to reduce the alcohol content from 5.0% to 4.6% in response to an increase in alcohol taxes by the Federal government. The logo was also changed, and a new advertising campaign was introduced to target a wider market. Featuring quirky, comical advertisements and billboards; the beer was promoted as simply being made from beer. (references) | ||
| DB Draught Classic | The DB Draught Classic is a major thoroughbred horse race in New Zealand. (references) | ||
| Down draught | A downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Draught beer | Beer drawn from a keg. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Draught engine | (Mining), an engine used for pumping, raising heavy weights, and the like. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Draught hook | (Mil.), one of the hooks on a cannon carriage, used in drawing the gun backward and forward. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Draught horse | 1: A horse employed in drawing loads, plowing, etc., as distinguished from a saddle horse or carriage horse. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Horse adapted for drawing heavy loads. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Draught net | A seine or hauling net. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Draught ox | An ox employed in hauling loads, plowing, etc. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Draught tube | (Water Wheels), an air-tight pipe extending downward into the tailrace from a turbine wheel located above it, to make the whole fall available; -- called also draught box . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Exhaust draught | A forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Forced draught | The draught produced by a blower, as by blowing in air beneath a fire or drawing out the gases from above it. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Natural draught | The draught produced by the atmosphere flowing, by its own weight, into a chimney wherein the air is rarefied by heat. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Pottle draught | Taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Sheer draught | (Shipbuilding), a projection of the lines of a vessel on a vertical longitudinal plane passing through the middle line of the vessel. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Sleeping draught | A soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: draught
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Air draught | Transportation | Vertical distance from the surface of the water to the highest point of mast or aerial. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Angelica's Draught | Literature | Something which completely changes affection. The tale is that Angelica was passionately in love with Rinaldo, who hated her, whereas Orlando, whom she hated, actually adored her shadow. Angelica and Rinaldo drink from a certain fountain, when a complete change takes place; Rinaldo is drunk with love, and Angelica's passion changes to abhorrence. Angelica ultimately married Medoro, and Orlando went mad. (Ariosto: Orlando Furioso.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Back draught | Industry | A complexity in the design of a mould which prevents the removal of the article from the compression mould without the use of a split mould. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Draft or draught | Food & Agriculture | Beer drawn from a keg or cask. Also called tap beer. Beer packaged in a container holding one or more gallons may be described as draft beer if the contents are tap-drawn. Unpasteurized beer requiring refrigeration for preservation, or beer that has been sterile filtered and aseptically filled, and packaged in normal bottles and cans, may also be described as draft beer. Pasteurized beer packaged in normal bottles and cans may be described as "draft brewed," "draft beer flavor" if the label or advertisement states the beer has been pasteurized. (references) | |
| Draught of Thor | Literature | (The). The ebb of the sea. When Asa Thor visited Jötunheim he was set to drain a bowl of liquor. He took three draughts, but only succeeded in slightly reducing the quantity. On leaving Jötunheim, the king, Giant Skrymir, told him he need not be ashamed of himself, and showed him the sea at low ebb, saying that he had drunk all the rest in his three draughts. We are told it was a quarter of a mile of sea-water that he drank. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Draught tube | Environment | In a plumbing system, a drainage pipe that carries or is designed to carry human excrement. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Draught tube | Mechanical Engineering | An expanding tube connecting the outlet passages of a turbine runner with the tail water. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Draught unit | Food & Agriculture | Z. B. Pferd, mittel:1, 0; Zugochse:0, 5; Zugkuh:0, 2. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Induced draught fan | Mechanical Engineering | A fan producing a mechanical draught at the point where air or gases leave a unit, under suction. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Keel draught | Food & Agriculture | The vertical distance from the designed load waterline to the lowest projecting portion of the vessel at any point in a vessel's length. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Natural draught burner | Chemical Industry | A burner system using the momentum of a jet of low pressure gas(up to and including 0. 5 psig or 14" W. C. )to entrain from the atmosphere a portion of the air required for combustion. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Unequal draught | Metallurgy | Irregularity in rolled metal, i. e. it is lighter on one edge due to nonparallel rolls. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Very deep draught ship | Military | A ship with a laden draught of 13.75 meters (45 feet) or more. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: draught | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Draught beer | 15 | Black draught | 4 | |
| Irish Draught | 13 | Carlton Draught | 7 | |
| Lithuanian Heavy Draught | 12 | Carlton Draught Stakes | 7 | |
| Carlton Draught Stakes | 7 | DB Draught Classic | 2 | |
| Carlton Draught | 7 | Draught beer | 15 | |
| Waikato Draught | 5 | Irish Draught | 13 | |
| Worthington Draught bitter | 4 | Lithuanian Heavy Draught | 12 | |
| Black draught | 4 | Waikato Draught | 5 | |
| DB Draught Classic | 2 | Worthington Draught bitter | 4 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
