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Definition: Drafty |
DraftyAdjective1. Not airtight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DraftySynonym: draughty (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Drafty |
| English words defined with "drafty": cunning. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Must the church be so drafty, Mr. Elton? (Emma; writing credit: Douglas McGrath) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Isn't It? Drafty (1957) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Yugoslavia | A report by the U.S. Committee for Refugees describes collective centers for refugees as varying widely in quality and population density, ranging from "decent" to "dismal, drafty, and crowded." It is impossible to estimate unemployment figures among IDP's. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Drafty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drafty" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see 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 |
drafty | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drafty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مفتوح للريح العاتية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vystavený prùvanu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | plein de courants d'air, exposé tout les vents. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | windig (blowy, breezy, dodgy, dubious, maneuverable, windily, windy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פתוח לרוח פרצים (draughty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | huzatos (blowy, draughty), széljárta (bleak, draughty, wind swept, windswept, wind-swept), léghuzatos (draughty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pieno di correnti d'aria (draughty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aftydray esfriado (draughty), arteiro (draughty, mischievous, pawky, playful). (various references) сквозит. (various references) izložen promaji (draughty). (various references) abierto a corrientes de aire (draughty). (various references) เบียร์ (beer, slosh). (various references) hava akımlı, cereyanlı (draughty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Drafty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dafty, darft, diraft, dreft, Durupty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drafty" (pronounced dra"ftē) |
| 5 | -r a" f t ē | crafty. |
| 3 | -f t ē | biosafety, fifty, hefty, lefty, lofty, nifty, safety, shifty, thrifty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: draft, tardy. | |
-2 letters: arty, daft, dart, drat, dray, fard, fart, frat, fray, raft, trad, tray, yard. | |
-3 letters: aft, arf, art, day, dry, fad, far, fat, fay, fry, rad, rat, ray, rya, tad, tar, try, yar. | |
-4 letters: ad, ar, at, ay, fa, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: draftily. | |
+3 letters: feudatory. | |
+4 letters: defamatory. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 61 66 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. .- ..-. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100001 01100110 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r a f t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0061 0066 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388467728691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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