A mild vesicatory.
Used in a Sentence
draughts
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for draughts.
Editorial note
Sage Draughts is a very comprehensive Draughts or Checkers playing program, now released as open source software.
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Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A mild vesicatory.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of draughts gathered in one view.
(board games, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for draughts.
noun
A mild vesicatory.
noun
(board games, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.
Example sentences
Sage Draughts is a very comprehensive Draughts or Checkers playing program, now released as open source software.
Christopher Strachey wrote a version of draughts/checkers for the Manchester Mark 1 that was fully functional in 1952.
Problem is that draughts and poor insulation in winter then result in significant spiking energy usage.
Climate change causes draughts, which causes food shortages in countries heavily dependent on their agricultural sector.
Apion's description of the pessoi game mentioned in the Odyssey: flicking pebbles toward the Penelope-pebble convinces me more than translating pessoi as draughts.
Moreover a king in Russian draughts can travel an arbitrary number of squares.
Similarly, our houses down here are cold and filled with draughts.
This should be an explicit goal, because you can't get there by just cranking up the heat since it doesn't deal with draughts and the like.
They expect warm, air conditioned buildings without draughts.
Rather than to counteract 'cool draughts'.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
I am very happy despite the rats, the rain, the mud, the draughts, the roar of the cannon and the scream of shells.
Quote examples
I've been thinking about doing this, and my main thought is that the insulation standards were probably effectively non-existent at the time, beyond "as few draughts as possible"!
And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity; he is like the "tribeless, lawless, hearthless one," whom Homer denounces—the natural outcast is forthwith a lover of war; he may be compared to an isolated piece at draughts.
There's a similar passage from Pope's "An Essay on Criticism that I'm particularly fond of and I think illustrates the kind of hubris the OP was suffering from: A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Proper noun examples
Before it in 1958 came Tennis for Two and even before that, in 1952 Christopher Strachey made Draughts.
A 'board game equivalent' to this concept might be Go (or if we are being less flattering to the video game industry, Draughts/Checkers).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use draughts in a sentence?
Sage Draughts is a very comprehensive Draughts or Checkers playing program, now released as open source software.
What does draughts mean?
A mild vesicatory.
What part of speech is draughts?
draughts is commonly used as noun.