Draft vs. Craft

The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.

Example: ‘using oxen for draft’; ‘shot forth an arrow with a mighty draft’;

The act of drawing in a net for fish.

That which is drawn in; a catch, a haul.

Example: ‘he cast his net, which brought him a very great draft’;

An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing; a preliminary sketch or outline.

Example: ‘I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.’; ‘His first drafts were better than most authors' final products.’;

(nautical) Depth of water needed to float a ship; depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull; depth of water drawn by a vessel.

A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.

Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.

An amount of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) that is drunk in one swallow.

Example: ‘She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.’;

Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.

A cheque, an order for money to be paid.

Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.

Example: ‘He left the country to avoid the draft.’;

(politics) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.

(sports) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.

(rail transport) The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.

The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.

(transitive) To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.

To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

To write a law.

(transitive) To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.

Example: ‘He was drafted during the Vietnam War.’; ‘There was a campaign to draft Smith to run for President.’; ‘They drafted me to be the chairperson of the new committee.’;

To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.

Example: ‘The calves were drafted from the cows.’;

To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.

Example: ‘After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins.’;

(intransitive) To follow very closely behind another vehicle, thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower, thereby conserving energy or increasing speed.

To draw out; to call forth.

To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.

(not comparable) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.

Example: ‘I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer.’;

The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.

Example: ‘Everything available for draft burden.’;

A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.

Example: ‘Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year.’;

An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.

Example: ‘I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan.’;

An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods.

A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.

The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.

A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.

The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

A current of air. Same as Draught.

A quantity of liquid poured out for drinking; a dose.

The act of drawing a quantity of liquid from a large container; also, the quantity of liquid so drawn.

A device for regulating the flow of gases in a chimney, stovepipe, fireplace, etc.; as, to close the chimney draft. It is usually a flat plate of the same internal dimensions as the flue, which can be rotated to be parallel to or perpendicular to the current of gases.

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

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; especially, to compulsorily select and induct members of a population to serve in the armed forces.

Example: ‘HotLips Houlihan: How did a degenerate person like him achieve such a position of responsibility in the army?Radar: He was drafted.’; ‘Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples.’;

To transfer by draft.

Example: ‘All her rents been drafted to London.’;

a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another

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

a preliminary sketch of a design or picture

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

Example: ‘they served beer on draft’;

preliminary version of a written work

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

a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace

a dose of liquid medicine;

Example: ‘he took a sleeping draft’;

compulsory military service

a large and hurried swallow;

Example: ‘he finished it at a single gulp’;

the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

draw up an outline or sketch for something;

Example: ‘draft a speech’;

engage somebody to enter the army

make a blueprint of

Strength; power; might; force .

(uncountable) Intellectual power; skill; art.

Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .

Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception .

(obsolete) Occult art, magic .

A work or product of art .

(collective or plural) Handmade items, especially domestic or decorative objects; handicrafts .

A device, a means; a magical device, spell or enchantment .

Learning of the schools, scholarship; a branch of learning or knowledge, a science, especially one of the ‘seven liberal arts’ of the medieval universities .

(uncountable) Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession .

Example: ‘The craft of writing plays.’;

A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation .

Example: ‘The carpenter's craft.’; ‘He learned his craft as an apprentice.’;

(countable) A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ .

Example: ‘She represented the craft of brewers.’;

A vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space .

(nautical) Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges.

Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants.

(figurative) A woman.

Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. .

To make by hand and with much skill.

To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman).

Example: ‘state crafting; the process of crafting global policing’;

(video games) To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine.

Strength; might; secret power.

Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.

Example: ‘Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.’; ‘A poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making.’; ‘Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations,Has the craft of the smith been held in repute.’;

Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.

Example: ‘The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds.’;

Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.

Example: ‘You have that crooked wisdom which is called craft.’; ‘The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.’;

A vessel; vessels of any kind; - generally used in a collective sense.

Example: ‘The evolutions of the numerous tiny craft moving over the lake.’;

To play tricks; to practice artifice.

Example: ‘You have crafted fair.’;

the skilled practice of a practical occupation;

Example: ‘he learned his trade as an apprentice’;

a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space

people who perform a particular kind of skilled work;

Example: ‘he represented the craft of brewers’; ‘as they say in the trade’;

skill in an occupation or trade

shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

make by hand and with much skill;

Example: ‘The artisan crafted a complicated tool’;

A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small scale production of goods, or their maintenance, for example by tinkers.