Write and Draft

verb

• Produce a literary work.
  • usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
  • synonyms: compose, pen, indite
• Communicate or express by writing.
  • usage: "Please write to me every week"
• Have (one's written work) issued for publication.
  • usage: "How many books did Georges Simenon write"; "She published 25 books during her long career"
  • synonyms: publish
• Communicate (with) in writing.
  • usage: "Write her soon, please"
  • synonyms: drop a line
• Communicate by letter.
  • usage: "He wrote that he would be coming soon"
• Write music.
  • usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
  • synonyms: compose
• Mark or trace on a surface.
  • usage: "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
• Record data on a computer.
  • usage: "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
  • synonyms: save
• Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word. )
  • usage: "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
  • synonyms: spell
• Create code, write a computer program.
  • usage: "She writes code faster than anybody else"

• (v.t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
• (v.i.) To form characters, letters or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
• (v.i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
• (v.t.) To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
• (v.t.) To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
• (v.i.) To compose or send letters.
• (v.t.) To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
• (v.t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
• (v.i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.

Sell an option. Applies to derivative products.

noun

• A document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another.
  • synonyms: bill of exchange, order of payment
• A current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle.
  • synonyms: draught
• A preliminary sketch of a design or picture.
  • synonyms: rough drawing
• A serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg.
  • usage: "they served beer on draft"
  • synonyms: draught, potation, tipple
• Any of the various versions in the development of a written work.
  • usage: "a preliminary draft"; "the final draft of the constitution"
  • synonyms: draft copy
• The depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded.
  • synonyms: draught
• A regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace.
• A dose of liquid medicine.
  • usage: "he took a sleeping draft"
  • synonyms: draught
• Compulsory military service.
  • synonyms: conscription, muster, selective service
• A large and hurried swallow.
  • usage: "he finished it at a single gulp"
  • synonyms: gulp, draught, swig
• The act of moving a load by drawing or pulling.
  • synonyms: draught, drawing

verb

• Draw up an outline or sketch for something.
  • usage: "draft a speech"
  • synonyms: outline
• Engage somebody to enter the army.
  • synonyms: enlist, muster in
• Make a blueprint of.
  • synonyms: blueprint, draught

• (v.t.) To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
• (v.t.) To draw the outline of; to delineate.
• (a.) Pertaining to or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.
• (v.t.) To draw from a military band or post or from any district, company or society; to detach; to select.
• (v.t.) To transfer by draft.
• (a.) Relating to or characterized by, a draft or current of air. Same as Draught.

(DoD) The conscription of qualified citizens in military service. See also active duty; Military Service.
(DoD) The depth of water that a vessel requires to float freely; the depth of a vessel from the water line to the keel. See also watercraft.

draft is a written order drawn by one party, called a drawer, that directs a second party (almost always a bank), called a drawee, to pay a sum of money to a third party, called the payee. For example, a check. Drafts are used with letters of credit. Drafts may be sight drafts, payable upon receipt, or time drafts, payable on some specified future date.