Draft vs. Project — What's the Difference?

A current of air in an enclosed area.

A project (or program) is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned (usually by a project team, but sometimes by a project manager or by a project planner) to achieve a particular aim.An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of events: a "set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations".A project may be a temporary (rather than permanent) social system (work system), possibly staffed by teams (within or across organizations) to accomplish particular tasks under time constraints.A project may form a part of wider programme management or function as an ad hoc system.Note that open-source software "projects" or artists' musical "projects" (for example) may lack defined team-membership, precise planning and/or time-limited durations.

A device that regulates the flow or circulation of air.

An undertaking requiring concerted effort

The act of pulling loads; traction.

An extensive task undertaken by a student or group of students to apply, illustrate, or supplement classroom lessons.

Something that is pulled or drawn; a load.

A plan or proposal for accomplishing something.

A team of animals used to pull loads.

Also projects A housing project.

(Nautical)The depth of a vessel's keel below the water line, especially when loaded

To thrust outward or forward

A heavy demand on resources.

To throw forward; hurl

A written order directing the payment of money from an account or fund.

To send out into space; cast

A gulp, swallow, or inhalation.

To cause (an image) to appear on a surface by the controlled direction of light

The amount taken in by a single act of drinking or inhaling.

(Mathematics) To produce (a projection).

A measured portion; a dose.

To direct (one's voice) so as to be heard clearly at a distance.

The drawing of a liquid, as from a cask or keg.

(Psychology) To attribute (one's own emotion or motive, for example) to someone else unconsciously in order to avoid anxiety or guilt.

An amount drawn

To convey an impression of to an audience or to others

The process or method of selecting one or more individuals from a group, as for a service or duty

To form a plan or intention for

Compulsory enrollment in the armed forces; conscription.

To calculate, estimate, or predict (something in the future), based on present data or trends

A body of people selected or conscripted.

To extend forward or out; jut out

(Sports)A system in which the exclusive rights to new players are distributed among professional teams.

To direct one's voice so as to be heard clearly at a distance.

The act of drawing in a fishing net.

A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.

The quantity of fish caught.

An urban low-income housing building.

Any of various stages in the development of a plan, document, or picture

(dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.

A representation of something to be constructed.

A raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough

A narrow line chiseled on a stone to guide a stonecutter in leveling its surface.

(obsolete) A projectile.

A slight taper given a die to facilitate the removal of a casting.

(obsolete) A projection.

An allowance made for loss in weight of merchandise.

(intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.

To select from a group for some usually compulsory service

(transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

To select from a group for placement on a sports team.

(transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.

To draw up a preliminary version of or plan for.

(transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.

To create by thinking and writing; compose

To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.

To work as a drafter.

To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.

To move, ride, or drive close behind a fast-moving object so as to take advantage of the slipstream, especially in a race.

(cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.

Suited for or used for drawing heavy loads

(geometry) To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.

Drawn from a cask or tap

(neuroanatomy) (of a neuron or group of neurons) to have axon(s) extending to and therefore able to influence a remote location

(US spelling) A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.

To speak or sing in such a way that one can be heard from a large distance away.

(US spelling) The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

(US spelling) An act of drinking.

That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

(US spelling) The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.

An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.

(US spelling) A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).

To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

(US spelling) Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.

To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.

The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.

To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; - sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.

An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.

To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.

A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.

To form a project; to scheme.

A cheque, an order for money to be paid.

Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted;

Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.

A planned undertaking

A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.

Communicate vividly;

A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.

Extend out or project in space;

The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.

Transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another

The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.

Project on a screen;

The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.

Cause to be heard;

The act of drawing in a net for fish.

Draw a projection of

That which is drawn in; a catch, a haul.

Make or work out a plan for; devise;

A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population.

Present for consideration

(transitive) To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.

Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

Put or send forth;

To write a law.

Throw, send, or cast forward;

To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.

Regard as objective

To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.

To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.

To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.

(ambitransitive) To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.

To draw out; to call forth.

To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.

(not comparable) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.

Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.

The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.

A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.

An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.

An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods.

A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.

The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.

A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.

The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

A current of air. Same as Draught.

A quantity of liquid poured out for drinking; a dose.

The act of drawing a quantity of liquid from a large container; also, the quantity of liquid so drawn.

A device for regulating the flow of gases in a chimney, stovepipe, fireplace, etc.; as, to close the chimney draft. It is usually a flat plate of the same internal dimensions as the flue, which can be rotated to be parallel to or perpendicular to the current of gases.

Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught; as, a draft horse.

Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.

To draw the outline of; to delineate.

To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.

To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select; especially, to compulsorily select and induct members of a population to serve in the armed forces.

To transfer by draft.

A document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another

A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle)

A preliminary sketch of a design or picture

A serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg;

Preliminary version of a written work

The depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)

A regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace

A dose of liquid medicine;

Compulsory military service

A large and hurried swallow;

The act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

Draw up an outline or sketch for something;

Engage somebody to enter the army

Make a blueprint of