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Definition: DRAFF |
DRAFFNoun1. An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods. 2. An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. 3. A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted. 4. The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught. 5. Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter. 6. A current of air. Same as Draught. 7. Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught. 8. The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone. 9. A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter. 10. A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face. 11. The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught. 12. A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught. |
Date "DRAFF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"DRAFF" is a common misspelling or typo for: deaf, draffy, draft, raff. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings; (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "DRAFF" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DRAFF" is used about 2 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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 |
draff | 3 |
del draff futbol mexicano | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DRAFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кюспе от бира, помия (dishwater, hog-wash, pigwash, rinsings, slipslop, slops, swill, wash, wish-wash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | urt (brewer'grains, distiller's wash, vegetable, vegetable crop, wort), mask (brewer'grains, brewing dregs and waste, distiller's wash, dregs of cereals, hog-wash, pig swill, pig-wash, swill, swillings, wort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | draf (brewer'grains, distiller's wash, marc, pomace), spoeling (brewer'grains, cooling mud, distiller's wash, distilling slops, drilling fluid, drilling mud, drilling sludge, flushing, greasy wastes, hog-wash, irrigation, lavage, mud flush, pig swill, pig-wash, scalded fodder, scavenging, still slops, still wash, stillage sludge, stillage(sludge), swill, swillings), bostel (brewer'grains, brewing dregs and waste, distiller's wash, dregs of cereals), bierbostel (brewer'grains, distiller's wash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mäski (mash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | drêche, drèche. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Treber (brewer'grains, brewing dregs and waste, distiller's wash, dregs of cereals), Schlempe (mash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατακάθι απόσταξης (brewer'grains, distiller's wash), ρεύμα αέροσ (air current), σχέδιο (concept, course of action, design, designing, drawing, layout, pattern, plan, plat, project, prospectus, scheme), τραβηχτική. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sep k. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scorie del malto (brewer'grains, distiller's wash), feccia del vino (brewer'grains, distiller's wash), feccia (dregs, Lees, scum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | drow (brewer's grains, dreg, hogwash), drou (brewer's grains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | affdray borra (dreg, grain, grout). (various references) drojdie (barm, dregs, grounds, Lees, residue, scum, tailing, yeast), zaţ (dregs, ground, grounds, matter), resturi (garbage, Grout, jetsam, leavings, litter, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, offal, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, rubbish, scrap, scraps, tailings, wreck), borhot (grain, Marc). (various references) барда (grains), пойло (hogwash, mash), дрянь (gunk, nit, rotter, schlock, stuff, trash). (various references) talog (dreg, grout, lees, precipitate, residue, sediment, subsidence). (various references) basura (catlap, dirt, dregs, dust, dustbin, garbage, junk, leak, litter, mullock, refuse, rubbish, scourings, tat, trash, waste), bagazo (bagasse, chaff, chuff, Marc). (various references) drav (brewer'grains, distiller's wash, marc, pomace). (various references) กากอาหาร. (various references) tortu (crust, deposit, deposition, dregs, faeces, fecula, feculence, foots, grounds, Lees, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, sediment, settlings, tailings), posa (dreg, dregs, faeces, feculence, foots, Marc, residuum, sediment, settlings, tailings), mutfak artığı (wash). (various references) пійло (cat-lap, slipslop, sozzle), погань (foul, muck, rotter, tripe), помиї (cat-lap, dishwater, hog-wash, pig's wash, slop, swill). (various references) soeg (brewers' grains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DRAFF": draffier, draffiest, draffish, draffs, draffy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-f-r" | |
-1 letter: daff, fard, raff. | |
-2 letters: aff, arf, fad, far, rad. | |
-3 letters: ad, ar, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-f-r" | |
+1 letter: afford, draffs, draffy. | |
+2 letters: affords, daffier, raffled. | |
+3 letters: affirmed, afforded, affrayed, dandriff, dandruff, diffract, draffier, draffish, offguard, tariffed, tradeoff. | |
+4 letters: affording, affronted, chaffered, cofferdam, dandriffs, dandruffs, dandruffy, diffracts, disaffirm, draffiest, fieldfare, gauffered, reaffixed, restaffed, tradeoffs. | |
+5 letters: affordable, affordably, afforested, affrighted, breadstuff, cofferdams, diffracted, disaffirms, farfetched, fieldfares, firefanged, paraffined, reaffirmed, trafficked. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 52 41 46 46 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. .- ..-. ..-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01010010 01000001 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D R A F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0052 0041 0046 0046 |
| 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)3852354040 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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