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draughts Definition

draughts (drafts, dräfts)

noun

Brit. the game of checkers

draughts Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • air: The temperature is regulated, by controlling the drafts of air coming in through slatted windows.

Converse of object

  • keep: They're very good for security, and not bad at keeping the drafts out.
  • stop: The frame needed to be filled ( it stopped the drafts!
  • reduce: Do you put sealant or something down to reduce the drafts?
  • eliminate: Eliminating all drafts can lead to condensation problems in hidden parts of the structure.

Adjective modifier

  • cold: The stairs have been boarded in and a new door put up to keep out the cold drafts.

Modifies a noun

  • board: There is a giant outdoor drafts board, swing ball, garden and children's play area with swings and slide.
  • set: Outdoor barbecue area, outdoor drafts set & basketball net.
  • piece: Two wooden combs were found, along with a round wooden counter, similar to modern drafts pieces.
  • player: Tony wasn't too impressed but his mom advised him to become world champion drafts player first.
  • game: They have access to domino, snooker, chess and drafts games.
draughts Quotes

Headstones stagger under great draughts of time after heads pass out, and their world must reel speechless, blind in the end about its chilling star

—Berryman,John originally John Allyn Smith

Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

—Pope, Alexander

Browse dictionary entries near draughts

  1. draught
  2. dratted
  3. drat
  4. drastic
  5. drapes
  6. drapery
  7. Draper, John
  8. draper
  9. drape
  10. drank
  1. draughtsman
  2. draughty
  3. Drava
  4. drave
  5. Dravidian
  6. draw
  7. draw away
  8. draw back
  9. draw on or upon
  10. draw out