draft vs windmill

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. 

windmill

noun
  • The false shower. 

  • A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball. 

  • A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind. 

  • Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper. 

  • Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill. 

  • An imaginary enemy, but presented as real. 

  • A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill. 

  • A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails. 

  • The structure containing such machinery. 

  • A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air. 

  • A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop. 

verb
  • To rotate with a sweeping motion. 

  • Of a rotating part of a machine, to (become disengaged and) rotate freely. 

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