draft vs slug

draft

noun
  • An act of drinking. 

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

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

  • The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. 

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

  • A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position. 

  • A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan. 

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

  • The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow. 

  • An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing. 

  • The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel. 

  • Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can. 

  • A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.). 

  • A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams. 

  • A cheque, an order for money to be paid. 

verb
  • To draw out; to call forth. 

  • To write a law. 

  • To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military. 

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

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

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

  • To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose. 

  • To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch. 

  • To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team. 

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

adj
  • Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads. 

  • Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled. 

slug

noun
  • A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic. 

  • A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use. 

  • A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. 

  • The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename. 

  • A hard blow, usually with the fist. 

  • A black screen. 

  • A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together. 

  • A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug. 

  • A ship that sails slowly. 

  • The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it. 

  • A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal. 

  • Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. 

  • An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab. 

  • A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes. 

  • A hitchhiking commuter. 

  • A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines. 

  • A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material. 

verb
  • To hit very hard, usually with the fist. 

  • To drink quickly; to gulp; to down. 

  • To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. 

  • To make sluggish. 

  • To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. 

  • To load with a slug or slugs. 

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