(a.) Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.
(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.
(v. t.) To draw the outline of; to delineate.
(v. t.) To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
(v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.
(v. t.) To transfer by draft.
Example Sentences:
(1) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(2) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
(3) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
(4) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(5) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
(6) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
(7) Despite his misgivings, Griffith-Jones agreed to draft new legislation that sanctioned beatings, as long as the abuse was kept secret.
(8) The airport drafted in extra staff to help passengers.
(9) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(10) At the time MPs were debating a draft bill outlining the unpopular economic reforms that will have to be imposed.
(11) Chilcot has now embarked on the “Maxwellisation process”, whereby those the inquiry intends to criticise will be sent draft passages of the report for comment.
(12) Castin' makes me feel good: Ghostbusters' diverse team is a victory Read more Dan Aykroyd heralds Ghostbusters cast as 'most magnificent women in comedy' Read more “There’s three drafts of the old concept that exists,” said Aykroyd.
(13) UK in denial over Saudi arms sales being used in Yemen, claims Oxfam Read more A previous draft report prepared by the arms export controls select committee was set to call for a suspension of UK arms sales to Saudi pending an independent investigation into the way the Saudi-led coalition was conducting a bombing campaign in Yemen.
(14) Recently, social phobia has been described in DSM-III and in International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 (1986 Draft), as a diagnostic entity and classified under the anxiety disorders.
(15) Indeed, he was invited to help draft Johnson's first state of the union speech.
(16) Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.
(17) Even so, Dinsmore, known to colleagues in Scotland for being very cool and disciplined, was soon drafted down to Wapping to become the Sun's managing editor in London as new senior staff were brought in after the sudden closure of the News of the World.
(18) One of the criticisms of Obama is that instead of asking vice-president Joe Biden to oversee a task force looking at proposals for reform in January and then leaving Congress to come up with a draft bill, he should have pushed his own set of proposals when emotions were still raw.
(19) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(20) "We have done everything humanly possible to ensure that every stage of drafting, every stage of comments and expert reviews carried out, that we look for any potential error or any source of information that might not carry the highest levels of credibility," he said.
Swig
Definition:
(v. t.) To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
(v. t.) To suck.
(n.) A long draught.
(n.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
(n.) A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.
(v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
(v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A paramedic taking a swig from the Coke bottle in his glove compartment that's half vodka."
(2) Just when you’re wondering if the real Nigel Farage will stand up, he ends the ad by swigging from a good old pint of ale.
(3) One man took turns swigging from what appeared to be a bottle of pink champagne in each hand, shouting “no justice, no peace” to no one in particular.
(4) Goldfish are swallowed, whisky is swigged from condoms, bodily fluids are smeared on furniture.
(5) And in case you wondered where she stood on this final, most pathetic failure of New York's imperious chief executive, on Monday night across from Piers Morgan, Quinn took a massive swig from a 32oz soft drink.
(6) When two men dressed entirely in tin foil with silver bobbles on their heads walked into the village swigging beer, TV reporters immediately surrounded them.
(7) They sew, but they also knit (at Knit and Natter), and cycle (with Radiant Riders), and taste beer (Swig for Victory).
(8) Nadal trots to his chair for a quick swig of an energy drink.
(9) The battered boozer taking an occasional swig from his bottle of Whyte and Mackay on the late Inverness-to-Glasgow train shares an ambition with the progressive lawyer nursing a glass of red Burgundy in his lovely north Edinburgh home.
(10) Like every appletini-swigging SATC devotee who swore watching Carrie or Samantha was like seeing themselves, the Entourage audience gravitated quickly to Vince's effortless starpower, to E's everyman, to Turtle's dogged hustler and to Drama's … OK, only a member of the Screen Actors Guild could truly empathise with the relentless humiliation of Johnny Drama, but it was impossible not to celebrate his few small instances of victory.
(11) Not to be put off, the British comic’s latest film Grimsby has drawn fury for depicting the Lincolnshire port as a rundown badlands strewn with litter and peopled by beer-swigging children and hooligan parents.
(12) People swigged beer, marijuana spiced the air, hip-hop streamed from a sound system.
(13) Swigging his brown bitter while Morrissey sipped his orange juice, he tried to find out whether this Smiths person liked Special K, Prefab Sprout or the Beatles.
(14) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian We found a spot outside HSBC, sniggered at the irony, and I took a swig from my hip flask of hot water, honey and lemon, and another swig of Buttercup cough syrup before we kicked off.
(15) Ahrendts, who is married to her childhood sweetheart and has three children, rises at 5am and swigs Diet Coke.
(16) Remember the rise of the 90s “ladette”, personified in 1999 by the then Radio 1 Breakfast Show presenter Zoë Ball swigging from a bottle of Jack Daniel’s on the morning of her wedding to Norman Cook?
(17) In my view, people are searching for a different coffee experience, and that’s what artisan coffee is.” When Extract started roasting coffee beans in a shed in 2007, there were no hordes of bearded, craft beer swigging hipsters banging down the door for their daily caffeine hit.
(18) The two leaders, along with Merkel’s chemistry professor husband, Joachim Sauer, then sat down with locals for a specially brewed G7 summit banana and clove-flavour weissbier, weisswurst and pretzels, all of them appearing to swig back the beer, despite the early hour.
(19) A portly, bespectacled figure sporting a plum-coloured tie, Cayne swigged from a plastic bottle of water while answering questions.
(20) One quick swig from the magic bottle later and he's okay.