(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.
Traction
Definition:
(n.) The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.
(n.) Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.
(n.) Attraction; a drawing toward.
(n.) The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 3-5 days of side-arm traction, swelling had usually diminished sufficiently to allow the elbow to be safely hyperflexed to stabilize the fracture after elective closed reduction.
(2) The effects exerted on the cervical spine by a traction of 150 N was studied by means of an improved radiographic technique.
(3) The tractional resistance carried out on the laminate fronts where a treatment of only silane and resin of connection was applied, was greater where the treatment of silane was employed.
(4) Although the entire cohort of neck patients, regardless of group assignment, improved significantly on all the outcome variables over the 6-week period, patients receiving intermittent traction performed significantly better than those assigned to the no traction group in terms of pain (P = 0.03), forward flexion (P = 0.01), right rotation (P = 0.004) and left rotation (P = 0.05).
(5) In a group of 35 patients with cervical painful syndromes due to degenerative changes the authors applied traction treatment together with pharmacological agents.
(6) To avoid the complications attributable to the cervical spine, we recommend roentgenographic examination in all neurofibromatosis patients who are about to have general anesthesia or skull traction for treatment of scoliosis.
(7) Traction spurs with segmental hypermobility were found more commonly at the L4-5 level in patients whose spines were not fused, particularly women.
(8) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(9) Kirschner improved the wire traction procedure decisevely.
(10) The pair arrived back in the office shortly before 6pm, as reports that the incident was a terrorist attack began to gain traction.
(11) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
(12) Normal neck-shaft angle accounted to 53.1% in the traction group.
(13) Most arteries follow a straight course because they are stretched by longitudinal traction.
(14) Postoperatively, the patient is placed in traction for a time and then is allowed to walk with non-weight-bearing.
(15) It was also recorded that patients with edematous fibroplastic process in the central zone accompanied by vitreoretinal tractions often develop equatorial dystrophies, this being a risk factor of retinal detachment.
(16) Peroneal nerve traction does not result in abnormalities of the dorsalis pedis pulse, pain on passive muscle stretch or a tense anterior tibial compartment.
(17) It is concluded that the coefficient of limiting friction obtained during full-sole contact with the floor is a suitable means of distinguishing between tractional qualities of shoes.
(18) Patients with a femoral neck fracture often undergo skeletal traction until surgery.
(19) Retinal traction can be counteracted by the oil up to a calculated threshold value, depending on the size and shape of the tear, the strength of the surface tension and, most importantly, the distance between the retina and choroid.
(20) An area of translucence around a dense zone, appearing more clearly with traction, is suspicious.