Drafting

drafting
    n 1: writing a first version to be filled out and polished later
    2: the craft of drawing blueprints [syn: {drafting}, {mechanical
       drawing}]
    3: the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams; "he learned
       drawing from his father" [syn: {drawing}, {draftsmanship},
       {drafting}]
    

drafting \drafting\ n.
   1. writing a first version to be filled out and polished
      later.
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   2. the craft of drawing blueprints.

   Syn: mechanical drawing.
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   3. a creation of artistic drawings.

   Syn: drawing, draftsmanship.
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Draft \Draft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drafted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Drafting}.]
   1. To draw the outline of; to delineate.
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   2. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
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   3. 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.
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            HotLips Houlihan: How did a degenerate person like
            him achieve such a position of responsibility in the
            army? Radar: He was drafted.          --M*A*S*H (the
                                                  movie)

            Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they
            drafted novices to supply their colleges and
            temples.                              -- Holwell.
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   4. To transfer by draft.
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            All her rents been drafted to London. -- Fielding.
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40 Moby Thesaurus words for "drafting":
      aspiration, black and white, bleeding, bloodletting, broaching,
      call, call-up, charcoal, compulsory military service, conscription,
      cupping, delineation, draft, draft call, drainage, draining,
      drawing, emptying, enlistment, enrollment, impressment, induction,
      levy, milking, mobilization, muster, phlebotomy, pipetting, press,
      pumping, recruiting, recruitment, selective service, siphoning,
      sketching, sucking, suction, summons, tapping, venesection