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Draft

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

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Narrower term 6

Acceptance 76% connected

The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acce…

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Cheque 76% connected

See Check.

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Levy 76% connected

A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence wh…

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Quaff 76% connected

To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.

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Redraft 76% connected

To draft or draw anew.

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Broader term 28

Compose 76% connected

To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.

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Contrive 76% connected

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

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Deepness 76% connected

The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.

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Deglutition 76% connected

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

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Depth 76% connected

The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the…

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Design 76% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Dose 76% connected

The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

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Drink 76% connected

To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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Enrol 76% connected

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Enroll 76% connected

To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; a…

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Enter 76% connected

To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…

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Indite 76% connected

To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.

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Inscribe 76% connected

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.

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Mobilization 76% connected

The act of mobilizing.

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Pen 76% connected

A feather.

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Project 76% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Pulling 76% connected

of Pull

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Recruit 76% connected

To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spi…

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Regulator 76% connected

One who, or that which, regulates.

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Sketch 76% connected

An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a repres…

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Study 76% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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Swallow 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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Text 76% connected

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, o…

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Wind 76% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Write 76% connected

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the charact…

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Manner of action 3

Levy 76% connected

A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence wh…

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Recruit 76% connected

To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spi…

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Derivationally related 10

Hitch 74% connected

To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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Hitch 74% connected

To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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Muster 74% connected

Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

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Muster 74% connected

Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

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Recruit 74% connected

To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spi…

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Recruit 74% connected

To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spi…

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Recruitment 74% connected

The act or process of recruiting; especially, the enlistment of men for an army.

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Recruitment 74% connected

The act or process of recruiting; especially, the enlistment of men for an army.

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Synonym 11

Blueprint 92% connected

See under Print.

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Conscription 92% connected

An enrolling or registering.

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Draught 92% connected

The act of drawing or pulling

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Drawing 92% connected

of Draw

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Enlist 92% connected

To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.

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Gulp 92% connected

To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.

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Muster 92% connected

Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

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Outline 92% connected

The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.

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Potation 92% connected

The act of drinking.

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Swig 92% connected

To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.

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Tipple 92% connected

To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently…

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Discharge 94% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Discharge 94% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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