drafting

4 definitions found

drafting - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  drafting \drafting\ n.
     1. writing a first version to be filled out and polished
        later.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. the craft of drawing blueprints.
  
     Syn: mechanical drawing.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. a creation of artistic drawings.
  
     Syn: drawing, draftsmanship.
          [WordNet 1.5]

  Draft \Draft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drafted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Drafting.]
     1. To draw the outline of; to delineate.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
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     3. To draw from a military band or post, or from any
        district, company, or society; to detach; to select;
        especially, to compulsorily select and induct members of a
        population to serve in the armed forces.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
              HotLips Houlihan: How did a degenerate person like
              him achieve such a position of responsibility in the
              army? Radar: He was drafted.          --M*A*S*H (the
                                                    movie)
  
              Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they
              drafted novices to supply their colleges and
              temples.                              -- Holwell.
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     4. To transfer by draft.
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              All her rents been drafted to London. -- Fielding.
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drafting - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  drafting
      n 1: writing a first version to be filled out and polished later
      2: the craft of drawing blueprints [syn: drafting, mechanical   drawing
         ]
      3: the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams; "he learned
         drawing from his father" [syn: drawing, draftsmanship,
         drafting]

drafting - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "drafting":
     aspiration, black and white, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching,
     call, call-up, charcoal, compulsory military service, conscription,
     cupping, delineation, draft, draft call, drainage, draining,
     drawing, emptying, enlistment, enrollment, impressment, induction,
     levy, milking, mobilization, muster, phlebotomy, pipetting, press,
     pumping, recruiting, recruitment, selective service, siphoning,
     sketching, sucking, suction, summons, tapping, venesection