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Definition: Drafter |
DrafterNoun1. A writer of a draft. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drafter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Prepares working plans and detail drawings from rough or detailed sketches and notes for engineering or manufacturing purposes according to dimensional specifications: Calculates and lays out dimensions, angles, curvature of parts, materials to be used, relationship of one part to another, and relationship of various parts to entire structure or project, utilizing knowledge of engineering practices, mathematics, building materials, manufacturing technology, and related physical sciences. Creates preliminary or final sketch of proposed drawing, using standard drafting techniques and devices, such as drawing board, T-square, protractor, and drafting machine, or using computer-assisted design/drafting equipment. Modifies drawings as directed by engineer or architect. Classifications are made according to type of drafting, such as electrical, electronic, aeronautical, civil, mechanical, or architectural. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Drafter |
| English words defined with "drafter": Jefferson ♦ President Jefferson ♦ Thomas Jefferson. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drafter": CHIEF DRAFTER, CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN ♦ DESIGN DRAFTER, ELECTROMECHANISMS, DETAILER, FURNITURE, DISTRIBUTION-FIELD ENGINEER, DRAFTER, AERONAUTICAL, DRAFTER, ASSISTANT, DRAFTER, AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN LAYOUT, DRAFTER, CARTOGRAPHIC, DRAFTER, CASTINGS, DRAFTER, CIVIL, DRAFTER, COMMERCIAL, DRAFTER, DIRECTIONAL SURVEY, DRAFTER, ELECTRICAL, DRAFTER, ELECTRONIC, DRAFTER, GEOLOGICAL, DRAFTER, GEOPHYSICAL, DRAFTER, HEATING AND VENTILATING, DRAFTER, LANDSCAPE, DRAFTER, MARINE, DRAFTER, MECHANICAL, DRAFTER, PATENT, DRAFTER, PLUMBING, DRAFTER, STRUCTURAL, DRAFTER, TOOL DESIGN ♦ film cutter ♦ SILK-SCREEN CUTTER, silk-screen maker, stencil cutter. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Minorities | Morocco | Press reports indicated that the rector of ICRAM would be Mohamed Chafik, the drafter of the Berber Manifesto. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Drafter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drafter" is used about 137 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% | 137 | 27,138 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "drafter": pin drafter. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "drafter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | чертожник (draftsman, draughtsman, drawer), товарен кон (cart horse, draught horse, dray horse, pack-horse, roadster), впрегнат кон, плановик (planner). (various references) | |
Czech | kdo navrhuje. (various references) | |
German | Verfasser (author, authors, compiler, essayist, scriptwriter, writer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fogalmazó (draftsman, draftsmen, draughtsman, drawer, drawer up). (various references) | |
Italian | redattore (compiler, copyreader, editor, redactor). (various references) | |
Korean | 초안자. (various references) | |
Manx | draghteyr (draughtsman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | afterdray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esboçador. (various references) | |
Russian | ломовая лошадь (cart horse, cart-horse, draught horse, dray horse, dray-horse). (various references) | |
Spanish | caballo (Dobbin, equine, hack, horse, jibber, knight, starter, vaulter). (various references) | |
Swedish | spannhäst. (various references) | |
Turkish | teknik ressam (draftsman, draughtsman, tracer), tasarımcı (designer, draftsman, draughtsman, planner), tasarı hazırlayan kimse (draftsman), plânlayan kimse. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | битюг. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người vẽ sơ đ" thiết kế (draftsman), người vẽ đ" án (draftsman), người phác thảo (draftsman), người phác hoạ (delineator, designer, draftsman). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drafter": drafters. (additional references) | |
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"Drafter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ardfert, d'autre, drafe, draftex, prafter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drafter" (pronounced dra"fter) |
| 5 | -r a" f t er | hereafter, rafter, thereafter. |
| 4 | -a" f t er | after, laughter. |
| 3 | -f t er | drifter, Hefter, lifter, shifter, shoplifter, softer, swifter, weightlifter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: redraft. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: dafter, darter, frater, rafted, rafter, retard, tarred, trader. | |
-2 letters: after, darer, dater, defat, derat, draft, drear, fader, fared, farer, fated, rared, rated, rater, tared, tarre, terra, trade, tread. | |
-3 letters: daft, dare, dart, date, deaf, dear, deft, drat, fade, fard, fare, fate, fear, feat, feta, frae, frat, fret, raft, rare, rate, read, rear, reft. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: drafters, draftier, raftered, redrafts. | |
+2 letters: afterward, afterword, fractured, overdraft, redrafted, refracted, regrafted. | |
+3 letters: afterwards, afterwords, afterworld, breadfruit, forwardest, fratricide, frustrated, overdrafts, perforated, redrafting, tradecraft. | |
+4 letters: afterworlds, breadfruits, footdragger, forgathered, fraternized, fratricides, freehearted, grandfather, reformatted, terraformed, tradecrafts, transferred, transformed, trifurcated. | |
+5 letters: airfreighted, draftsperson, flutterboard, footdraggers, foregathered, grandfathers, handicrafter, intergrafted, preformatted, proliferated, reafforested, reformulated, refrigerated, transfigured, ultrarefined, waterproofed. | |
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