Draft and Weight

Draft

Draft noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.

Usage example: the draft of an average-sized oil tanker

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Weight and draft are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Weight" instead a noun "Draft".

Nearby Words: drafted, drafting, draftee, drafter, draftsman

Weight noun - A mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported.

Usage example: those books are a heavy weight to have to carry around all day

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Draft and weight are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Draft" instead a noun "Weight".

Nearby Words: weigh, weighty, weighted, weighting, weighed

high	high draft	high weight
certain	certain draft	certain weight
standard	standard draft	standard weight
light	light draft	light weight
Other adjectives: actual, great, serious, little, political, overall.

Ships typically carry a supply of weight known as a Ballast, used to help maintain the ship's balance and draft in the water with varying loads of cargo and fuel.

Source: Emergency Cargo Dump
When Ivar suggests making a saddle for the local equivalent of a draft animal (which are only used to pull chariots), the locals are horrified at burdening such majestic creatures with the weight of a person, precluding them being used as mounts.

Source: Enforced Technology Levels

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