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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for drafting:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Draft \Draft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drafted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Drafting.]
   1. To draw the outline of; to delineate.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

            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.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. To transfer by draft.
      [1913 Webster]

            All her rents been drafted to London. -- Fielding.
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

drafting \drafting\ n.
   1. writing a first version to be filled out and polished
      later.
      [WordNet 1.5]

   2. the craft of drawing blueprints.

   Syn: mechanical drawing.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   3. a creation of artistic drawings.

   Syn: drawing, draftsmanship.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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