different between dwelling vs foredraft

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dw?.l??/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Etymology 1

From Middle English dwelling, duelling (“delay, continuance, abode”). More at dwell.

Noun

dwelling (plural dwellings)

1. A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abode

Derived terms

• dwellinghouse, dwelling house
• dwelling-place
• lake dwelling (“prehistoric structure”)

Translations

References

• dwelling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

From dwell +? -ing.

Verb

dwelling

1. present participle of dwell

English

Alternative forms

• fore draft

Etymology

fore +? draft

Noun

foredraft (plural foredrafts)

1. Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.

   Farm containing messuage, barns, stable, buildings, gardens, foldyard and rickyard (1.1.39), the lane or Foredraft … — Shropshire Archives, 1835

   He returned at last, and pointing to a tree that stood over on the far side of the foredraft which led up to the farm,… — A Modern Antaeus, 1901

   We would have scurried across the farmyard, scattering the flustered fowl as we went, then down the foredraft to wait by the gate… — Richard P. Mayer, The Young Gongoozler, 2010

2. A current of air that flows forward

   If the connections to the two plenums are air-tite, then there will be a back draft in one stream and a foredraft … — HVAC-Talk, 2006

   Not phased by trucks or light winds. You drift into their foredraft and then back out of their backdraft as one solid unit … — TundraTalk, Towing Report, 2007

   The freight, after passing through Brick Station, would switch onto a trunk line and skirt the yards on its way north to Chicago. He listened intently, and picked up the foredraft of its cattle cars. — C.K. Robin, Judas Goat: A Fable

3. (nautical) The draft at the fore perpendicular. Also "fore draft".

   ... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985