Draught vs Wind - What's the difference?
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The action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.
* Sir W. Temple
The act of drawing, or pulling back.
* Spenser
That which is drawn.
* L'Estrange
That which draws, such as a team of oxen or horses.
Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
* Mortimer
The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation; a draft.
* Macaulay
* South
A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle).
* Charles Dickens
(maritime) The depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull.
An amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow.
* 1851 ,
*:“Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the nearest seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short draughts —long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof.
The act of drawing in a net for fish.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke V:
* Sir M. Hale
(British) A game piece used in the game of draughts.
(Australia) A type of beer, brewed using a top-fermenting yeast; ale.
(UK, Ireland) Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
(dated) A dose of medicine in liquid form.
* 1919 ,
(medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
(obsolete) A privy.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:
* 1623 , William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens :
(obsolete) A drawing or picture.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.22:
(obsolete) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
* Spenser
(military) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft.
(military) The force drawn; a detachment; a draft.
To draw out; to call forth. See draft.
To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
* Sir Walter Scott
To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
(Webster 1913)
(countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
(countable, uncountable) The ability to exert oneself without feeling short of breath.
* Shakespeare
news of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip - used with catch often in past tense
(India, and, Japan) One of the five basic elements (see ).
(uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
* (John Dryden)
A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
* Bible, (Ezekiel) xxxvii. 9
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
* (John Milton)
A bird, the dotterel.
To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
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To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
(reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
(British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
To perceive or follow by scent.
To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
(lb) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
:
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
(lb) To tighten the spring of the clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
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To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
(lb) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
:
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path whichwinded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.
*(Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)
*:The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
*1969 , (Paul McCartney)
*:The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.
To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
* (1591-1674)
*:Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please / And wind all other witnesses.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:You have contrivedto wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.
*Government of Tongues
*:little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse
To cover or surround with something coiled about.
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The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
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In british terms the difference between draught and wind
is that draught is a game piece used in the game of draughts while wind is to turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.As nouns the difference between draught and wind
is that draught is the action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor while wind is real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.As verbs the difference between draught and wind
is that draught is to draw out; to call forth. See {{term|draft|lang=en}} while wind is to blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.draught
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Alternative forms
* draft (US)Noun
(en noun)- A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement.
- She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught .
- He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught .
- The Hertfordshire wheel plough is of the easiest draught .
- (Dryden)
- A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.
- No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.
- He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.
- She took a deep draught from the bottle of water.
- he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught .
- Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.
- Finally I gave him a draught , and he sank into uneasy slumber.
- to apply draughts to the feet
- Then sayde Jesus: are ye yett withoute understondinge? perceave ye not, that whatsoever goeth in at the mouth, descendeth doune into the bely, and ys cast out into the draught ?
- Rid me these Villaines from your companies; / Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught , / Confound them by some course, and come to me, / Ile giue you Gold enough.
- And therefore, for the whole process, and full representation, there must be more than one draught ; the one representing him in station, the other in session, another in genuflexion.
- drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you
Synonyms
* (game) checkers * (mouthful of liquid) swigVerb
(en verb)- (Addison)
- The Parliament so often draughted and drained.
wind
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) ; ultimately probably cognate with (weather).Noun
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- If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.
- Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind .
- Come from the four winds , O breath, and breathe upon these slain.
- Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe.
Synonyms
* (movement of air) breeze, draft, gale; see also * (flatus) gas (US); see alsoDerived terms
* break wind * close to the wind * crosswind * downwind * fair wind * foul wind * get one's wind back * get the wind up * get wind of * headwind * like the wind * long-winded * pass wind * sail close to the wind * scattered to the four winds * second wind * see which way the wind is blowing * sow the wind and reap the whirlwind * tailwind * the winds * trade wind * take the wind out of someone's sails * three sheets to the wind * throw caution to the wind * throw to the wind * twist in the wind * upwind * whirlwind * willow in the wind * windbag * wind band * wind-blown * windboard * windbound * wind-break, windbreak * windbreaker * wind-breaker * windburn * wind chart * wind-cheater, windcheater * windchill * wind chimes * wind cone, windcone * wind egg * windfall * wind farm * windflaw * wind force * wind-gauge * wind gun * wind instrument * windily * windiness * windjammer * windless * windmill * window * windpipe * wind power * wind rose * wind scale * windscreen * wind shake * windshield * wind sleeve, windsleeve * wind sock, windsock * winds of change * windstorm * windsurf * windsurfer * windsurfing * wind-swept, windswept * wind tunnel * windward * windySee also
* blizzard * breeze * cyclone * gale * gust * hurricane * nor'easter, northeaster * northwester * sou'easter, southeaster * sou'wester, southwester * storm * tempest * tornado * twister * typhoon * zephyrVerb
(en verb)- The boxer was winded during round two.
- I can’t run another step — I’m winded .
- The hounds winded the game.