What's the difference between draught and swig?

Draught


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of drawing or pulling
  • (n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.
  • (n.) The drawing of a bowstring.
  • (n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.
  • (n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
  • (n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
  • (n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)
  • (n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
  • (n.) That which is drawn
  • (n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.
  • (n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.
  • (n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.
  • (n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.
  • (n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.
  • (n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.
  • (n.) That which draws
  • (n.) A team of oxen or horses.
  • (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
  • (n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.
  • (n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
  • (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.
  • (n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
  • (n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.
  • (n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.
  • (n.) See Draft, n., 7.
  • (a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
  • (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
  • (a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
  • (a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.
  • (v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
  • (v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In order to investigate the effect of food intake on the amount of fluid ingested and the intervals between draughts and the effect of fluid intake on the amount of food ingested and the intervals between meals, the eating, drinking, and core temperature of 15 adult male rats were continuously monitored for 14 days.
  • (2) Lester Young often commented that “I feel a draught” when he sensed a racist atmosphere, and his personality became radically more insular after the abuse he suffered in the US army in 1945.
  • (3) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
  • (4) The brace has strong anti-bending strength and draught force.
  • (5) So they got rid of the car, installed low-energy bulbs , insulation and draught-proofing, and a year-and-a-half ago they bought a wood-burning stove .
  • (6) The results of a series of cold challenges to the hand, repeated on a normal subject in a temperature-controlled room and in other parts of a rheumatology ward, show very good reproducibility outside the temperature-controlled room, provided that the immediate environment is draught-free.
  • (7) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
  • (8) But that may be the least of Ukip’s woes as it sups the bitter draught of victory.
  • (9) Relief from the complaints is improved by physiotherapy and by avoiding the detrimental influence of bad posture, nervous stress, air draughts, cold chills etc.
  • (10) Muscle fibre recruitment was investigated during draught loaded exercise by studying glycogen depletion patterns from histochemical stains of muscle biopsies from the gluteus and semitendinosus muscles.
  • (11) The increase in metabolic requirements during the three levels of draught exercise was associated with increases in arterial hemoglobin concentration and oxygen content of blood.
  • (12) Draught-free homes are comfortable at lower temperatures, so you'll be able to turn down your thermostat, which could save another £55 a year.
  • (13) In particular, connections between population and presence of some fish species draughted has been studied, considering ecological, reproductive and trophic habits of fishes, in order to value relations between the influence these populations exert on fishing and biological characteristics of the quantitatively more meaningful fish species.
  • (14) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
  • (15) It was concluded that high oxidative capacity is of importance both for fast trotting and for draught work.
  • (16) The major clinical conditions encountered were those which adversely affect the performance of draught animals and those causing infertility.
  • (17) The role of camels in transport and draught is discussed.
  • (18) A cart equipped with an odometer, for measuring distance, and a hydraulic dynamometer, for measuring draught force, was used.
  • (19) Cask beer aside, Fringe majors on continental and Belgian bottles, with the likes of Duvel, Leffe and Timmerman's on draught, as well as real perries and ciders.
  • (20) Draught whisky and whisky in cans – available in vending machines in Japan to consumers with an ID smartcard to prove their age – are still a long way off in the west.

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.