What's the difference between drafty and draughty?
Drafty
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Draughty
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
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(1) Instead of feeling helpless, you feel positive and think ‘Well, I made a difference last weekend, sealing up that draughty room.’ There is a wave of change building and people doing things slowly influences governments and companies too.
(2) I am reluctant to visit hospitals too often, because two contemporaries have died in hospital from MRSA in the past 13 months, and I don't like hanging around endlessly in draughty waiting rooms, waiting to see the doctor.
(3) He thinks the party’s current stance on solving 21st-century problems is as outdated as “trying to overhaul an Apple MacBook with a spanner” and says decisions should be made by members networked via the internet rather than in local party meetings in draughty church halls.
(4) Closer to home, people are living in draughty tents in the rain and mud ofnorthern France.
(5) Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Barker said the figures showed the "huge potential rewards" of the government's Green Deal scheme, which aims to improve the UK's draughty housing stock by providing financing packages to cover the upfront cost of refurbishments.
(6) The family has a draughty 19th century house and heating and electricity bills have soared, partly because of the Russian gas supply crisis of 2015 and partly because of the contributions paying for thousands of new offshore wind turbines.
(7) This is what happens when your city becomes a global reserve currency.” Before you know it a draughty Victorian terraced house in what was once a slum costs more than £1m Danny Dorling warns of the UK becoming a resort for the jet set: “London takes the role that Mayfair had in the past, where the gentry came in for the season.
(8) It's draughty and none of the radiators or the boiler are working properly.
(9) "The green deal is about putting energy consumers back in control of their bills and banishing Britain's draughty homes to the history books," Huhne said.
(10) When Rose Watson moved into her Nottingham home nine years ago, there was no central heating, the gas heater in the living room was leaking carbon monoxide, and any warmth in the building tended to leach out of the draughty single-glazed windows.
(11) Otherwise it's hard to find evidence that the couple have taken the sort of eco-nightmare draughty Victorian house lived in by millions of people in the UK and turned it into an almost totally carbon-free home, with a gas bill of £20 a year.
(12) *** It’s a bitter evening, sea winds strafing the sand as we trudge towards the Walpole Bay hotel in Cliftonville, a self-styled “living museum” where I once saw a punch-up between pensioners over a draughty window.
(13) I'm pushing the big six suppliers to help their customers overhaul their draughty homes and understand the best tariffs on offer, and I'm backing new entrants to bring more competition to the market.
(14) It might look as thought it's all done in a draughty house on a remote Irish island, but in fact it's a studio set.
(15) Windows Draughty windows are a big area of heat loss.
(16) Landlords will be forced to refurbish hundreds of thousands of the UK's most draughty and energy-inefficient homes or find themselves blocked from renting them out, under proposals unveiled on Tuesday.
(17) Miliband's partner, Justine, in socks and jeans with 14-day-old Samuel in one arm and occasionally a notepad in the other, nips in and out of rooms stuffed with her partner's advisers, who are clearly delighted to be in a elegant and warm family home rather than a draughty parliamentary space.
(18) Aside from the fact that the buildings are extraordinarily draughty, badly designed for insulation (by Finland's high standards) and wasteful of energy, the street is peculiar because of the marked absence of any sense of community.
(19) It’s known as the Long Store and at first sight this draughty building – with endless rows of plain cardboard boxes stacked neatly on shelving from floor to ceiling – could be any distribution warehouse in the UK.
(20) The green deal is aimed at encouraging people to install loft, cavity and solid wall insulation, which would reduce energy bills and the heat leaking from the UK's draughty homes.