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Definition of Draft

Draft

Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.

Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.

To draw the outline of; to delineate.

To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.

To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.

To transfer by draft.

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Draft Quotations

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Ambrose Bierce

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
Daphne Zuniga

I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
R. Lee Ermey

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
Steven Tyler

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.
Bo Jackson

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
Nicholas Sparks

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.
Shelby Foote

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
Dag Hammarskjold

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.
Margaret Haddix

Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it.
Margaret Haddix

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Dean Koontz

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
Jesse Ventura

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.
Ellsworth Huntington

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
Michael Ignatieff

We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don't see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn't need a draft.
Montel Williams

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.
Sargent Shriver

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.
Diana Wynne Jones

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
Anne Tyler

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
Anne Tyler

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.
Jeremy Lin

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
Chaim Potok

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
Jean de la Bruyere

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
Maya Lin

The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).
Ibrahim Rugova

It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
Amos Oz

Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
Ed O'Neill

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
Jack Youngblood

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Draft Translations

draft in Afrikaans is konsep
draft in Dutch is cambio, wissel
draft in French is traite
draft in German is Ausarbeitung {f}
draft in Italian is lettera di cambio
draft in Norwegian is veksel, utkast
draft in Spanish is proyecto
draft in Swedish is uttag, utkast, koncept

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