All draft synonyms
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D d verb draft
- outline β the line by which a figure or object is defined or bounded; contour.
- prepare β to put in proper condition or readiness: to prepare a patient for surgery.
- devise β If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it.
- design β When someone designs a garment, building, machine, or other object, they plan it and make a detailed drawing of it from which it can be built or made.
- forge β to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
- draw up β to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- press β to force into service, especially naval or military service; impress.
- choose β If you choose someone or something from several people or things that are available, you decide which person or thing you want to have.
- recruit β a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- call up β If you call someone up, you telephone them.
- manufacture β the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- delineate β If you delineate something such as an idea or situation, you describe it or define it, often in a lot of detail.
- sketch β a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
- compose β The things that something is composed of are its parts or members. The separate things that compose something are the parts or members that form it.
- concoct β If you concoct an excuse or explanation, you invent one that is not true.
- skeleton β Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
- form β external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- fabricate β to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- make β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- contrive β If you contrive an event or situation, you succeed in making it happen, often by tricking someone.
- draw β to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- invent β to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
- project β something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- characterize β If something is characterized by a particular feature or quality, that feature or quality is an obvious part of it.
- shape β Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe.
- fashion β a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- plan β a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- rough β having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- adumbrate β to outline; give a faint indication of
- frame β a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- muster β to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
- impress β to press or force into public service, as sailors.
- indite β to compose or write, as a poem.
- induct β to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- conscript β A conscript is a person who has been made to join the armed forces of a country.
- dragoon β (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
adjective draft
- provisional β providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
noun draft
- summary β a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.
- version β a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- blueprint β A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- abstract β An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
- delineation β the act or process of delineating.
- current β A current is a steady and continuous flowing movement of some of the water in a river, lake, or sea.
- flow β to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- waft β to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water: The gentle breeze wafted the sound of music to our ears.
- breeze β A breeze is a gentle wind.
- breath β Your breath is the air that you let out through your mouth when you breathe. If someone has bad breath, their breath smells unpleasant.
- eddy β a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- puff β a short, quick blast, as of wind or breath.
- wind β the act of winding.