(n.) One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.
(n.) A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.
(n.) One who drinks drams; a tippler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the decades he has cemented his position as an important artistic figure and extended his talents to work as a photographer, draughtsman, printmaker and stage designer.
(2) The works will be displayed in the Queen's gallery of Buckingham Palace alongside an exhibition of drawings and prints by the 17th-century artist Giovanni Castiglione, regarded as the most innovative and technically brilliant draughtsman of his day.
(3) He was a Christ-like hobo in Whistle Down The Wind (1961), a draughtsman forced into a shotgun marriage in A Kind Of Loving (1962), a prissy, poetry-reading Englishman in Zorba The Greek (1964), a Bathsheba-adoring shepherd in John Schlesinger's underrated Far From The Madding Crowd (1967).
(4) First of all, amid the chaos Degas found endless repetition of standard movements and poses, providing plenty of opportunities for the relentless copyist, the champion draughtsman, to get some daring and implausible postures absolutely convincing and right, creating a series of interior landscapes accessible without having to go outdoors.
(5) Over the next few years he acquired a reputation not only as a draughtsman of exceptional capabilities but also as an ingenious interior decorator.
(6) By now, he was a draughtsman participating in an early scientific project to codify the diversity of nature: henceforward, text would always be a behind-the-scenes presence in his work.
(7) For example, the estimates of one observer who was a well-trained professional draughtsman did not show this systematic error.
(8) Jane Campion , director The music Michael wrote for The Draughtsman's Contract had such clarity, voice and vision that I knew he was the person I needed.
(9) Raphael's drawing Head of a Young Apostle, which the Renaissance draughtsman created in about 1519-21, was also issued with an export licence after no British buyer could match the £29m New York billionaire Leon Black offered for it at auction.
(10) Anaerobic incubation gave large moist or mucoid colonies that were easy to recognise, but it suppressed the typical draughtsman colony of S pneumoniae.
(11) It is suggested that draughtsman colonies occur because of a relative lack of the coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (factor V), which is required as a reducing agent in aspartate and glutamate metabolism.
(12) He had worked at EMI in wartime as a jig and tool draughtsman.
(13) He was well educated, qualifying as a draughtsman before enlisting in the 34 th Battalion in 1916.
(14) Though a poor draughtsman, Johnson proved able to design well and quickly and could afford to build what he liked.
(15) The factor V supplement routinely used in our medium also inhibited the formation of draughtsman colonies.
(16) He grew up in New Jersey and dropped out of high school to take a job as a draughtsman when his parents divorced and money ran low.
(17) She wanted a different style from the music I'd written for The Draughtsman's Contract , and the three other films I'd scored for Peter Greenaway in the 1980s.
(18) This nutritional deficiency may lead to bacterial cell wall defect and hence to the autolysis which gives the typical draughtsman colony.
(19) Because Degas was so familiar, because I felt over-exposed to his talent and therefore somewhat inured to his charms, I acknowledged rather than appreciated the greatness of his work; he was the impressionist for people who didn't really like impressionists, the same prettiness but with line, structure and form, a brilliant draughtsman, yawn, a 19th-century classic.
(20) Most significantly, it was in Arles that Van Gogh developed as a draughtsman, producing some of his most exquisite works.
Plan
Definition:
(a.) A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
(a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.
(a.) A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
(v. t.) To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
(v. t.) To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.
Example Sentences:
(1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(2) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(3) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(4) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
(5) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(6) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(7) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
(8) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(9) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(10) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(11) Amid the passionate discussion at the NDA meeting, the two women began to develop a plan.
(12) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(13) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(14) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(15) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
(16) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
(17) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
(18) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
(19) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(20) The planned development (october 1989) is also depicted.