DRAWING
draft, draught, drawing
(noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
drawing, drawing off
(noun) act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source; “the drawing of water from the well”
lottery, drawing
(noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
drawing, draftsmanship, drafting
(noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams; “he learned drawing from his father”
drawing
(noun) a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines; “drawings of abstract forms”; “he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures”
drawing
(noun) an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper; “it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
drawing
present participle of draw
Etymology 2
Noun
drawing (countable and uncountable, plural drawings)
A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
(uncountable) The act of producing such a picture.
Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
The process of drawing or pulling something.
An act or event in which the outcome (e.g, designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.
A small portion of tea for steeping.
Anagrams
• Wingard, warding
Source: Wiktionary
Draw"ing, n.
1. The act of pulling, or attracting.
2. The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines
and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or
in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for
effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk,
etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.
3. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or,
as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by
pulling them through dies.
4. (Textile Manuf.)
Definition: The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the
carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
5. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Note: Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of compounds
in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for drawing (in the sense of
pulling, and of pictorial representation); as, drawing master or
drawing-master, drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine,
drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing pencil, etc. A
drawing of tea, a small portion of tea for steeping.
– Drawing knife. See in the Vocabulary.
– Drawing paper (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for draughtsman
and for water-color painting.
– Drawing slate, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; --
called also black chalk, or drawing chalk.
– Free-hand drawing, a style of drawing made without the use of
guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or
geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed.
DRAW
Draw, v. t. [imp. Drew; p. p. Drawn; p. pr. & vb. n. Drawing.] Etym:
[OE. dra, drahen, draien, drawen, AS. dragan; akin to Icel. & Sw.
draga, Dan. drage to draw, carry, and prob. to OS. dragan to bear,
carry, D. dragen, G. tragen, Goth. dragan; cf. Skr. dhraj to move
along, glide; and perh. akin to Skr. dhar to hold, bear. Drag, Dray a
cart, 1st Dredge.]
1. To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the
thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
He cast him down to ground, and all along Drew him through dirt and
mire without remorse. Spenser.
He hastened to draw the stranger into a private room. Sir W. Scott.
Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats
James ii. 6.
The arrow is now drawn to the head. Atterbury.
2. To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an
attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to
entice; to allure; to induce.
The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak.
All eyes you draw, and with the eyes the heart. Dryden.
3. To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to
educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out,
from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a
cask or well, etc.
The drew out the staves of the ark. 2 Chron. v. 9.
Draw thee waters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14.
I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop
of blood. Wiseman.
(b) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Ex. xv. 9.
(c) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices,
which shall flame and fume of themselves. Cheyne.
Until you had drawn oaths from him. Shak.
(d) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or
reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history. Burke.
(e) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and
receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.
(f) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from
a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks;
hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a
prize.
(g) To select by the drawing of lots.
Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn.
Freeman.
4. To remove the contents of; as:
(a) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can
generated. Wiseman.
(b) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to
hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe. King.
5. To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to
utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave. "Where I first drew
air." Milton.
Drew, or seemed to draw, a dying groan. Dryden.
6. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to
extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
How long her face is drawn! Shak.
And the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that
of Dee. J. R. Green.
7. To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also,
to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to
produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.
8. To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to
represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words;
to depict; to describe.
A flattering painter who made it his care To draw men as they ought
to be, not as they are. Goldsmith.
Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, Or thou draw beauty
and not feel its power Prior.
9. To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a
memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.
Clerk, draw a deed of gift. Shak.
10. To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said
of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of
water.
11. To withdraw. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Go wash thy face, and draw the action. Shak.
12. To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
Note: Draw, in most of its uses, retains some shade of its original
sense, to pull, to move forward by the application of force in
advance, or to extend in length, and usually expresses an action as
gradual or continuous, and leisurely. We pour liquid quickly, but we
draw it in a continued stream. We force compliance by threats, but we
draw it by gradual prevalence. We may write a letter with haste, but
we draw a bill with slow caution and regard to a precise form. We
draw a bar of metal by continued beating. To draw a bow, to bend the
bow by drawing the string for discharging the arrow.
– To draw a cover, to clear a cover of the game it contains.
– To draw a curtain, to cause a curtain to slide or move, either
closing or unclosing. "Night draws the curtain, which the sun
withdraws." Herbert.
– To draw a line, to fix a limit or boundary.
– To draw back, to receive back, as duties on goods for
exportation.
– To draw breath, to breathe. Shak.
– To draw cuts or lots. See under Cut, n.
– To draw in. (a) To bring or pull in; to collect. (b) To entice;
to inveigle.
– To draw interest, to produce or gain interest.
– To draw off, to withdraw; to abstract. Addison.
– To draw on, to bring on; to occasion; to cause. "War which either
his negligence drew on, or his practices procured." Hayward.
– To draw (one) out, to elicit cunningly the thoughts and feelings
of another.
– To draw out, to stretch or extend; to protract; to spread out.
– "Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations" Ps. lxxxv. 5.
"Linked sweetness long drawn out." Milton.
– To draw over, to cause to come over, to induce to leave one part
or side for the opposite one.
– To draw the longbow, to exaggerate; to tell preposterous tales.
– To draw (one) to or on to (something), to move, to incite, to
induce. "How many actions most ridiculous hast thou been drawn to by
thy fantasy" Shak.
– To draw up. (a) To compose in due form; to draught; to form in
writing. (b) To arrange in order, as a body of troops; to array.
"Drawn up in battle to receive the charge." Dryden.
Syn.
– To Draw, Drag. Draw differs from drag in this, that drag implies
a natural inaptitude for drawing, or positive resistance; it is
applied to things pulled or hauled along the ground, or moved with
toil or difficulty. Draw is applied to all bodies moved by force in
advance, whatever may be the degree of force; it commonly implies
that some kind of aptitude or provision exists for drawing. Draw is
the more general or generic term, and drag the more specific. We say,
the horses draw a coach or wagon, but they drag it through mire; yet
draw is properly used in both cases.
Draw, v. i.
1. To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to
move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship
draw well.
Note: A sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind.
2. To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and
the well is deep. John iv. 11.
3. To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or
enticement.
Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not
draw too much. Addison.
4. (Med.)
Definition: To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; --
said of a blister, poultice, etc.
5. To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish
transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
6. To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
So soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou drawest, swear
horrible. Shak.
7. To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to
sketch; to form figures or pictures. "Skill in drawing." Locke.
8. To become contracted; to shrink. "To draw into less room." Bacon.
9. To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with
prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in
racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw
back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to
come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to
draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near,
nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to
collect.
10. To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited
or due; -- usually with on or upon.
You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey. Jay.
11. To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught;
as, a carriage draws easily.
12. To sink in water; to require a depth for floating. "Greater hulks
draw deep." Shak. To draw to a head. (a) (Med.) To begin to
suppurate; to ripen, as a boil. (b) Fig.: To ripen, to approach the
time for action; as, the plot draws to a head.
Draw, n.
1. The act of drawing; draught.
2. A lot or chance to be drawn.
3. A drawn game or battle, etc. [Colloq.]
4. That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn
aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under
Drawbridge. [U.S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition