| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle 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 dashing or walloping.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being scheming. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being shocking or jarring. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being whacking.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DRAUGHTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DRAUGHTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Industry | The conversion of a design into diagrammatic form preparatory to punching the jacquard cards. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: DRAUGHTING
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Draughting room | A room draughtsmen to work in, and where plans are kept. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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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). | ||||
