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Definition: Draft Board |
Draft BoardNoun1. A board to select personnel for involuntary military service. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Draft Board (1918) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Draft Board Number 5 which takes care of Lititz cases along with neighboring towns. Left to right: back to camera, John L. Bowman, attorney; George C. Ballman (secretary), hat manufacturer; Harold Shirker, full tim. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Japanese enlistment. These Americans of Japanese ancestry are about to enter their draft board at Waipahu, Territory of Hawaii, to apply for voluntary induction into the U.S. Army. They intend to fight for Uncle Sam as member of a combat regiment made up. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Japanese-American volunteers. Second and larger group on Kauai, Hawaii to go up for physical examination, the Makaweli draft board registrants answer roll call outside their board prior to going up for the physical. Calling roll is Captain J.J. Fallon of. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | President of the draft board in Center City, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fantasy football draft board | 11 |
draft board | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "draft board"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | sorozóbizottság (draftboard). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aftdray oardbay призывной пункт (recruiting office). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-f-o-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: dartboard. | |
-4 letters: abator, aboard, abroad, arroba, dotard, forbad, rabato, tabard. | |
-5 letters: abaft, abort, aorta, arbor, ardor, board, boart, broad, dobra, draft, farad, rabat, radar, tabor, tardo. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 61 66 74 42 6F 61 72 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100001 01100110 01110100 00100000 01000010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r a f t   B o a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0061 0066 0074 0042 006F 0061 0072 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388467728623681678470 |
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