draft
/dɹæft/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.61 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows:
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows:
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows:
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows:
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows:
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Senses relating to a current or flow or an amount which flows:
American usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "to drink at a draft"
- "She took a deep draft from the bottle of water."
- "From 1767 to 1774 no pale wine was bottled but for immediate use; only draft wine of all kinds was used in the principal taverns, and it was often very bad, not from tricks of the vintners, but from bad management."
- "Another positive trend is the increase of quality in draft cider options. Draft cider has often been, and sometimes still is, considered an inferior product by cider traditionalists, who believe a true cider should come in a bottle or[…]"
- "I have to revise the first draft of my term paper."
- "His first drafts were better than most authors' final products."
Etymology
A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”). Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur. By surface analysis, draw + -t.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɹæft/
- British English: /dɹɑːft/
Usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Archaic
- Canadian usage
- Transitive verb