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# draughts

noun (draughts, used with a singular verb, the game); plural of draught (a draught, draughts)

«draughts» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Draughts is a board game for two players who move round flat pieces diagonally and jump over each other's pieces to take them; in the USA it is called checkers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#m1)
2. Draughts are cold currents of air that come into a room through gaps. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#m2)
3. Draughts can also be long swallows of a drink. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life children play draughts at home or in a games club; it teaches planning and taking turns. At home, draughts come under doors and through windows, so people use draught excluders. Phrases: «a game of draughts», «play draughts», «keep out the draughts».

### Examples

- Grandpa taught me to play draughts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#x1)
- Draughts is played on a board of sixty-four squares. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#x2)
- I jumped two of his pieces in one move at draughts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#x3)
- There are cold draughts coming under the door. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#x4)
- We put a draught excluder by the door to stop the draughts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#x5)
- Is draughts the same as checkers? Yes, mostly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#x6)
- She won three games of draughts in a row. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#x7)
- “Let us keep to the story,” said Mongan, and, having taken some few dozen deep draughts of the wine, he became even more jovial than before. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/#x8)

### Note

British spelling; pronounced «drafts», and Americans spell the air sense «drafts». The game name takes a singular verb: «Draughts is fun». The game is called checkers in the USA and Canada. Do not confuse with «drafts» meaning first versions of writing.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «draughts» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draughts/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«draughts» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/draughts.html) on Mova free.