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Draft can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
draft used as an adjective:
- Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled
"I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
draft used as a verb:
- to write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
- write a law
- to conscript a person, force a person to serve in the military
- to select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
- to force or convince a person to do a job they do not want to do
- to select a rookie player onto a professional sports team
- To follow very closely behind another vehicle, thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower, thereby conserving energy or increasing speed.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
draft used as a noun:
- An early version of a written work
"I have to revise the first draft of my term paper." - A preliminary sketch, rough outline
"His first drafts were better than most authors' final products." - Depth of water needed to float a ship [also spelled draught].
- A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle [also spelled draught].
- Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
- A cheque, an order for money to be paid
- An amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow [also spelled draught]
"She took a deep draft from the bottle of water." - conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
"He left the country to avoid the draft." - A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams
- the pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is draft?
- Adjective usage: I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer.
- Noun usage: I have to revise the first draft of my term paper.
- Noun usage: His first drafts were better than most authors' final products.
- Noun usage: She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.
- Noun usage: He left the country to avoid the draft.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of draft are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of draft, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
