DRAUGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does draught mean? 

• DRAUGHT (noun)
  The noun DRAUGHT has 6 senses:

1. a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg

2. a large and hurried swallow

3. a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)

4. the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)

5. a dose of liquid medicine

6. the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

  Familiarity information: DRAUGHT used as a noun is common.

• DRAUGHT (verb)
  The verb DRAUGHT has 1 sense:

1. make a blueprint of

  Familiarity information: DRAUGHT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAUGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

draft; draught; potation; tipple

Context example:

they served beer on draft

Hypernyms ("draught" is a kind of...):

drink (a single serving of a beverage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "draught"):

quaff (a hearty draft)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large and hurried swallow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

draft; draught; gulp; swig

Context example:

he finished it at a single gulp

Hypernyms ("draught" is a kind of...):

deglutition; drink; swallow (the act of swallowing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

draft; draught

Hypernyms ("draught" is a kind of...):

air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "draught"):

updraft (a strong upward air current)

downdraft (a strong downward air current)

Derivation:

draughty (not airtight)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

draft; draught

Hypernyms ("draught" is a kind of...):

deepness; depth (the extent downward or backward or inward)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A dose of liquid medicine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

draft; draught

Context example:

he took a sleeping draft

Hypernyms ("draught" is a kind of...):

dosage; dose (a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

draft; draught; drawing

Hypernyms ("draught" is a kind of...):

pull; pulling (the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you)

• DRAUGHT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a blueprint of

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

blueprint; draft; draught

Hypernyms (to "draught" is one way to...):

design; plan (make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

He walked up to the sideboard, and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, washing it down with a long draught of water.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He very kindly made me up a sleeping draught, which he gave to me, telling me that it would do me no harm, as it was very mild....

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in the dark and a strong draught, until he was again sent for.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Though his dignity was sorely hurt by thus being made a draught animal, he was too wise to rebel.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

You remember that you did not take your usual draught that night.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I sent out for a fresh supply and mixed the draught; the ebullition followed, and the first change of colour, not the second; I drank it and it was without efficiency.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As he journeyed he bit into a crust which remained from his Beaulieu bread, and he washed it down by a draught from a woodland stream.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He, for his part, took a great draught of the wine and spoke with the most unusual solemnity.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And as for this soldier, even if I had not given him his sleeping draught, he would have slept soundly enough.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)