draft
/dɹæft/ noun B2- A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
- The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.
- An act of drinking.
- The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow. · to drink at a draft· She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.
- A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
- Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
- The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
- A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing. · I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.· His first drafts were better than most authors' final products.
Plural drafts
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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When you have finished, relock both the original and the draft in the desk, and hand them over to me personally to-morrow morning.’
This is it on the blue paper, and these slips, as I have explained, are the rough draft.
Holmes had picked up the pages which formed the rough draft of the will, and was looking at them with the keenest interest upon his face.
“‘In order to save Major Cavalcanti the trouble of drawing on his banker, I send him a draft for 2,000 francs to defray his travelling expenses, and credit on you for the further sum of 48,000 francs, which you still owe me.’”
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