draw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɔː/
note: Southern England, triggers Intrusive R
ipa: [dɹoː(‿ɹ)]
ipa: /dɹɔ/
ipa: [d͡ʒɹɔ]
note: intrusive r, New England
ipa: [d͡ʒɹɔɹ]
ipa: /dɹɑ/
ipa: /ˈdɹo/
homophone: drawer (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: draws
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form: drawing
form: drawn
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English drauen, drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull; to draw (out); to attract; to entice, lure; to lead; to make a drawing; to move, travel; etc.”), from Old English dragan (“to drag, draw”), from Proto-West Germanic *dragan (“to carry; to haul”), from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to carry; to pull, draw”); further etymology uncertain, often said to be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to pull, draw”), but possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate root which is also the source of Latin trahō (“to pull, draw; etc.”). Doublet of drag and draught.
The noun is derived from Middle English drau, draue (“action of shooting with a bow”), from drauen, drawen (verb).
cognates
* Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
* Danish drage
* Dutch dragen
* German tragen (“to carry”)
* Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
* Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
* West Frisian drage
Senses: examples: text: He drew a sheaf of papers from his bag.
text: Lys shuddered, and I put my arm around her and drew her to me; and thus we sat throughout the hot night. She told me of her abduction and of the fright she had undergone, and together we thanked God that she had come through unharmed, because the great brute had dared not pause along the danger-infested way.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To pull (someone or something) in a particular direction or manner.
examples: text: She settled in the window seat, drawing her leg up beneath her.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To move (a body part) in a particular direction.
examples: text: She took a deep breath and drew her corset-strings.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
Often followed by tight: to pull (something, such as a belt or string) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
examples: text: Seals […] throw their bodies forward, drawing their hinder-parts after them.
ref: 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World. […], London: […] James Knapton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To drag (something), especially along the ground.
examples: text: She drew the curtains to let in the sunlight.
text: You should draw the curtains at night for privacy.
text: It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.
ref: 1944 November and December, “"Duplex Roomette" Sleeping Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To pull (blinds, a curtain, etc.) open or closed.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To pull out (a bolt or latch) to unlock a door, gate, etc.; also, to push in (a bolt or latch) to lock a door, gate, etc.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
Chiefly followed by aside or to one side: to move (someone) away from a group of people in order to speak to them privately.
examples: text: He drew himself to his full height and glowered at the interloper.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To assume a specific attitude or position, either by pulling in or stretching out one's body or limbs.
examples: text: How long her face is drawn!
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To cause (a body part) to contract or shrink; also, to pull (the mouth, the face or features, etc.) out of shape from emotion, etc.; to distort.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To cause (someone or something) to go from one place to another, or from one condition to another.
examples: text: the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee
ref: 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People:
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To construct (a canal, wall, etc.) from one point to another.
topics: ball-games
billiards
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glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To strike (the cue ball) below the centre so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to move backwards on striking another ball.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To cause (a bowl) to move in a curve to a certain place.
qualifier: bowls
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
Of a batter: to hit (a ball) from the off side to the leg side, especially with an inclined bat; also, to hit (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To play (a shot or a stone) that lands in the house (“circular target”).
examples: text: […] the golfer thinks, “Ah! To draw the ball, I must be like the old pros and incorporate hand action through impact, twisting the clubhead to the left.” All you have to do to apply the spin needed to draw the ball left is to create a very small conflict between the clubface aim and the path the clubhead is traveling.
ref: 2013, Nick Bradley, Kinetic Golf:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left (or, for a left-handed player, toward the right, originally in an uncontrolled and now a controlled manner.
examples: text: This ship draws ten feet of water.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
Of a vessel: to require (a certain depth of water) to float in.
examples: text: And if any manner of perſon attempted to moue the King to infringe any parte of thys ordynaunce, and that being knowne, for the firſt time, he ſhould be depriued of his goodes and poſſeſſions, and for the ſecond time, to be drawen thorough the Citie, and ſo put to execution as an arrant traytor.
ref: 1569, Richard Grafton, “Richarde the Seconde”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 351:
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To drag (someone) by tying behind a horse or on a frame as a form of punishment or torture, or to bring to a place of execution.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To kill someone as a form of punishment or torture by tearing apart (their body) by tying their limbs to horses which run in different directions; also, to tear (the limbs) from someone's body in this manner.
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To pull back (an arrow or bowstring) in preparation for shooting the arrow; also, to cause (a bow) to bend by pulling back the bowstring.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To subject (a number) to an arithmetic operation.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
to haul in (a fishing net) which has been cast; also, to drag (a fishing net) alongside a boat.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To hoist (a sail).
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To carry (a load) in a vehicle; to cart, to haul.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To sew together (the edges of a tear); also, to mend (a hole or tear) in fabric.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To use (a draught animal) to pull a plough or vehicle.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To attribute (something) to a person or thing; to ascribe.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To change (something) into another thing; to convert, to transform.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To convert (a passage) from one literary style to another (for example, from prose to verse); or to translate (a text) from one language to another.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To direct (one's heart, thoughts, etc.) in a certain way or towards someone or something.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To give (courage, strength, etc.) to oneself; to summon up; also, to produce (evil, wickedness, etc.) in oneself.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To give (words) a certain meaning, especially one which is distorted; to distort, to misrepresent.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
Followed by through: to pass (food) through a strainer.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To mix (an ingredient) with another ingredient or ingredients to form a liquid or paste; to mix (ingredients) together to form a liquid or paste.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To be (able to be) pulled in a particular direction or manner.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
Of blinds, a curtain, etc.: to be pulled open or closed.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
Of a bowl: to move in a curve to a certain place.
qualifier: bowls
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To make a shot that lands in the house.
examples: text: Greater hulks draw deep.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
Followed by an adverb, such as deep or shallow: of a vessel: to require a depth of water of a certain characteristic to float in.
examples: text: This horse draws well.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
Especially of a draught animal: to pull something, such as a plough or vehicle, along; to have force to move something by pulling.
examples: text: The carriage draws easily.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
Of a plough or vehicle: to be pulled along in a specified manner.
examples: text: water[…] will shrink or draw into less room
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To become contracted; to shrink.
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To pull back an arrow or bowstring in preparation for shooting the arrow; also, to cause a bow to bend by pulling back the bowstring.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To work together towards a common aim; to cooperate, to pull together; also, to have a good relationship with; to get on with.
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To be dragged along; to drag.
examples: text: […] No rogue e'er felt the halter [i.e., the hangman's noose] draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it.
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
To pull at something; to tug.
examples: text: From the moment she entered the room, all eyes were drawn to her.
text: His mind was drawn back to the events of the preceding morning.
text: Handsignalmen, where needed, ought to wear a conspicuous orange/yellow cape (like many road workmen) to draw attention to them.
ref: 1964 April, “Letters: Rethinking emergency procedures”, in Modern Railways, page 274:
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To induce (the attention, the eyes or mind, etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
examples: text: A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To attract or cause (someone) to come to a particular place or to take a particular course of action; also, to cause (someone) to turn away from a particular condition or course of action.
examples: text: These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: Keep a watch upon the particular bias which nature has fixed in their minds, that it may not draw too much.
ref: 1711 August 7 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, July 27, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 128; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially gravity or magnetism.
examples: text: The president’s comments have drawn strong criticism from right-wing media outlets.
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To attract or provoke (a particular reaction or response) from someone.
examples: text: In a desperately tight opening set, the pace and accuracy of the Serbian's groundstrokes began to draw errors from the usually faultless Nadal and earned him the first break point of the day at 5-4.
ref: 2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To cause (something) to occur as a consequence; to bring about.
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
Followed by on or upon: to bring (disaster or misfortune) on oneself.
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To receive (a particular prison sentence).
examples: text: I drew a deep breath and wiped my brow.
text: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: So always look on the bright side of death, / Just before you draw your terminal breath.
ref: 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life:
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To take (air, smoke, etc.) into the lungs; to breathe in, to inhale.
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To cause (air) to be sucked into a duct, a room, etc.
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To drag or suck deeply on (a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement).
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To attract or provoke gunfire, either intentionally or unintentionally.
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To attract or influence a person or group of people; to be an inducement or enticement.
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
To take a drink of a beverage, especially an alcoholic one; to swig.
examples: text: The chimney won’t draw properly if it’s clogged up with soot.
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
Of a duct, smoking implement, etc.: to allow air to be passed through it in order that combustion can occur.
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
Followed by at or on: to drag or suck deeply on a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
glosses: Senses relating to attracting.
Chiefly followed by about or around: of a group of people: to come together; to assemble, to congregate, to gather.
examples: text: The dough was run through the pasta machine and drawn into a long ribbon.
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
To make (something) larger or longer; to elongate, to stretch.
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
Followed by out: to flatten (a piece of metal), usually by hammering.
examples: text: to draw a mass of metal into wire
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
To make (wire) by pulling a rod or other piece of metal through one or more apertures; also, to stretch (a rod or other piece of metal) into a wire.
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
To make (straw straight for thatching by pulling it through the hands.
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
To amount to (a certain quantity or sum).
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
To extend the duration of (something); to prolong.
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
To stretch (someone) on a rack as a form of punishment or torture.
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
To be made larger or longer; to be elongated or stretched.
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
To make straw straight for thatching by pulling it through the hands.
examples: text: The ship’s sail drew when the wind blew strongly.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
Of a sail: to fill with wind and become taut.
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
To amount to a certain quantity or sum.
glosses: Senses relating to extending or protracting.
To extend in area or space; to spread, to stretch.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To extract (a tooth); to pull.
examples: text: Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.
ref: 1705, George Cheyne, Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed:
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To extract (juice, oil, or some other fluid) from something by osmosis, pressure, or another process.
examples: text: The cat scratched her, drawing blood.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To extract (a small amount of liquid, especially blood) by puncturing a surface, or by using a pipette, syringe, or other suction device.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase; to infuse, to steep.
examples: text: They drew their swords and fought each other.
text: Matthew Garth woulda let Tom Dunstan drill him insteada drawin’ against him.
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 16:
text: Pensak made an inarticulate shout of surprise, and O stepped away from the sudden precipice so hard that she collided with the back of the elevator, and yelped. Both of them drew their weapons, as they were trained to do when confronted with the unknown, and there was something almost touchingly naïve about that. About drawing down on a featureless void.
ref: 2024 September 8, HarryBlank, “Next to Nothing”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024:
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To pull out (a firearm, sword, or other weapon) from a holster, sheath, etc.; to unsheathe.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To take (a beverage) from a cask or keg using a pump or tap; to tap.
examples: text: to draw water from a well using a bucket
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To take up (water) from a well or other source, especially by lifting in a container or pumping.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To soak up (a liquid, etc.); to absorb; specifically, of an organism (especially a plant) or one of its parts: to take in (nutrients, water, etc.).
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
Of a channel, drain, etc.: to carry (water) away.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
Chiefly in draw and quarter and hang, draw and quarter: to disembowel (someone), especially after hanging as a punishment for high treason.
examples: text: In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.
ref: 1709, William King, The Art of Cookery:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To remove the viscera from (an animal, especially a bird) before cooking.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To attract (humours, pus, etc.), chiefly by bringing to the surface of the body, so it can be dispersed or removed; also, to treat (a wound) in this way.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull (something) out; to extract, to remove.
To raise (coal or ore) from an underground mine to the surface.
examples: text: The winning lottery numbers were drawn every Tuesday.
text: Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn.
ref: 1784, Edward Augustus Freeman, An essay on parliamentary representation, and the magistracies of our boroughs royal: […]:
text: In the drawing of lots, my sister drew her own room, and I drew Master B.'s.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To select (one or more things) at random from a collection of similar things to decide which of a group of people will receive something such as a prize, or undergo something such as an assignment; also, to select (someone) by this process; to win (a prize) in a lottery or lucky draw.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To conduct, or select the winning numbers, tickets, etc., for, (a lottery).
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To remove the contents of (something, especially a kiln or oven); to empty.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To fill a bathtub with (water for a bath); to run (a bath).
examples: text: Go, wash thy face, and draw thy action.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To withdraw (something); specifically (gambling), to withdraw (a bet or wager); also (horse racing), to withdraw (a horse) from a race.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
Of a plant or its roots: to deplete (soil) of nutrients.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To separate (sheep) from a flock for a particular purpose, such as breeding or selling.
examples: text: At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To be dealt or to take (a playing card) from the deck; also, to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To fish by dragging a fishing net along (a shore) or in (a body of water).
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To search (a covert, a wood, etc.) for game or a quarry.
examples: text: I drew my last game against him.
text: The game is won when a player places any of his pieces on the same square with his opponent's Princess, or when a Chief takes a Chief. It is drawn when a Chief is taken by any opposing piece other than the opposing Chief;[…]
ref: 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To end (a game or match) with neither side winning, that is, in a draw.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To end (a game or match) with neither side winning, that is, in a draw.
In a match scheduled to last for a certain period of time: to end (a match) with neither side winning because the team batting last has not completed its innings when the playing time concludes.
coordinate_terms: tie
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To separate (a length of lace made by machine) into sections by removing the threads connecting the sections.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To take milk from (a cow); to milk.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To separate (seeds) from the husks of clover or trefoil; also, to separate seeds from the husks of (clover or trefoil).
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To take (a wicket).
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To remove (a hawk) from a mew after it has moulted.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To steal (something) from a person, especially by picking a pocket; also to pick the pocket of (someone); to steal from (a place).
qualifier: thieves' cant
examples: text: The circuit draws three hundred watts.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To consume (power).
qualifier: analogous
examples: text: He drew comfort from the thought that he was not the first to suffer this way.
text: She draws her subject matter from the events of her own life.
text: [Chappell] Roan draws from the mega-pop of the 2010s, from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift – then laces it with sexually frank asides and lavish doses of camp, and performs it with a maximalist, absurd aesthetic indebted to drag, John Waters and Freddie Mercury.
ref: 2024 August 9, Laura Snapes, “It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To obtain, elicit.
To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
examples: text: I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until / You have drawn oaths from him not to stay.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To obtain, elicit.
To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
examples: text: He tried to draw a conclusion from the facts.
text: We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To obtain, elicit.
To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
examples: text: to draw money from a bank
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To obtain, elicit.
To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
examples: text: He refused to be drawn on the subject
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To obtain, elicit.
To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To pull out a firearm, sword, or other weapon from a holster, sheath, etc.
examples: text: The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 4:11:
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To take up water from a well or other source, especially by lifting it in a container or pumping it.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To select one or more things at random from a collection of similar things to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something.
examples: text: Tea is much nicer if you let it draw for more than two minutes before pouring.
text: "There's your tay set for you an' drawin' nicely this minute, Miss Ethel," called old Bridget from the hall.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 207:
text: She made a pot of very strong tea, and while she was waiting for it to draw she opened the kitchen door to inspect her garden.
ref: 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 119:
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To leave tea temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase; to infuse, to steep; also, of a teapot: to cause tea to infuse.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
Of a bathtub: to be filled with water for a bath; to be run.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
Of a channel, drain, etc.: to carry water away.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
Of a liquid: to drain away, to percolate.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To treat a wound by attracting humours, pus, etc., chiefly by bringing such material to the surface of the body, so it can be dispersed or removed.
examples: text: Jill has four diamonds; she’ll try to draw for a flush.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To be dealt or to take a playing card from the deck.
topics: dominoes
games
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To take a domino from the stock.
examples: text: We drew the last time we played.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To end a game or match with neither side winning, that is, in a draw; to tie.
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To take alcoholic beverages from casks or kegs in an inn or tavern; to work as a drawer or barman.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
To remove a hawk from a mew after it has moulted.
examples: text: She thought she heard a noise in her chamber, and she drew herself within the casement.
ref: 1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho:
glosses: Senses relating to moving or travelling.
To move in a specific direction.
examples: text: The runners drew level with each other as they approached the finish line.
text: Draw near to the fire and I will tell you a tale.
text: The end of the world draws near.
text: Heavy clouds drew together above our heads.
glosses: Senses relating to moving or travelling.
To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
raw_tags: used with prepositions and adverbs
examples: text: As it drew towards evening, I packed up and headed for home.
text: As the war drew to its end, it became evident that repairs and rebuilding in the heavily blitzed Greater London area would be so extensive as to afford opportunity for effective large-scale planning.
ref: 1962 October, “The Victoria Line was only part of the plan”, in Modern Railways, page 258:
glosses: Senses relating to moving or travelling.
To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
examples: text: On one of my expeditions, after a stormy night, at the end of March, the hounds drew all day without finding a fox.
ref: 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 87:
topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to moving or travelling.
To search for game; to track a quarry.
examples: text: He had drawn a mural on the wall of his apartment.
text: A flattering painter, vvho made it his care / To dravv men as they ought to be, not as they are.
ref: 1774, [Oliver] Goldsmith, Retaliation: A Poem. […], new (2nd) edition, London: […] G[eorge] Kearsly, […], →OCLC, page 10:
text: Can I untouch'd the Fair ones Paſſions move? / Or Thou draw Beauty, and not feel it's Pow'r?
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “To Mr. Howard: An Ode”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 70:
text: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter III, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Senses relating to depicting or representing.
To produce (a figure, line, picture, representation of something, etc.) with a piece of chalk, a crayon, a pen, a pencil, or other instrument.
glosses: Senses relating to depicting or representing.
To carve or shape (something) by cutting off thin pieces.
glosses: Senses relating to depicting or representing.
To make (a comparison or contrast) between two or more things; to compare; to contrast, to distinguish.
glosses: Senses relating to depicting or representing.
Often followed by on or upon and the person or institution providing the money: to write (a bill, cheque, or draft) to authorize payment of money.
examples: text: to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange
text: Clerk, draw a deed of gift.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Senses relating to depicting or representing.
Now chiefly in the form draw up: to compose or write (a piece of text, especially a formal document).
examples: text: Her first novel contained a host of characters who were richly and convincingly drawn.
glosses: Senses relating to depicting or representing.
To depict (something) linguistically; to portray (something) in words; to describe.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Senses relating to depicting or representing.
To create (a furrow) by pulling a plough through soil.
glosses: Senses relating to depicting or representing.
To arrange or devise (something); to contrive.
glosses: Senses relating to depicting or representing.
To produce (a three-dimensional figure of something); to model, to mould, to sculpt.
examples: text: When I came in she was drawing on a big piece of coloured paper.
glosses: Senses relating to depicting or representing.
To produce an image of something with a piece of chalk, a crayon, a pen, a pencil, or other instrument; to make a drawing or drawings.
Derived terms: adraw
at daggers drawn
bedraw
box-drawing character
cold-drawn
counterdraw
deep-draw
deep drawing
dogdraw
downdraw
draw a bath
draw a bead on
drawability
draw a blank
drawable
draw ahead
drawal
draw a line
draw a line in the sand
draw a line under
draw a long bow
draw and quarter
draw a parallel
draw a sober breath
draw a sponge over the slate
draw a straight furrow
draw attention
draw a veil over
draw away
drawback
draw back
drawbar
drawbench
draw blank
draw blood
drawbolt
drawbore
drawboy
draw breath
drawbridge
draw bridle
drawcord
draw cuts
draw dead
drawee
drawer
drawfile
draw fire
drawgear
drawhead
draw hoe
drawhook
draw in
drawing
drawing card
drawing frame
drawing hand
drawing knife
drawing pin
drawing room
drawing slate
drawing table
draw in one's horns
draw into
draw iron
draw it fine
draw it mild
drawknife
drawknob
drawl
drawlatch
draw left
draw level
draw lines in the sand
drawlink
draw live
drawloom
draw lots
drawmaster
drawmetric
drawn and quartered
draw near
drawnet
drawn even
drawn-out
drawn out
draw off
draw on
draw one's horns in
draw one's last breath
draw out
draw parallels
drawplate
draw poker
draw raise
draw rein
draw right
drawrod
drawshave
drawspring
draw straws
drawstring
draw stumps
drawth
draw the cloth
draw the curtains
draw the line
draw the longbow
draw the long bow
draw the short straw
draw through
draw to a close
draw to an end
draw together
drawtube
draw up
draw-up
draw upon
draw weight
every miller draws water to his own mill
finedraw
foredraw
forthdraw
heal and draw
horse-drawn
indraw
indrawal
in drawing
line drawn in water
line drawn on water
long-drawn
long-drawn-out
misdraw
one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen
outdraw
overdraw
redraw
sneckdraw
solid-drawn
special drawing right
to-draw
todraw
umbedraw
underdraw
undraw
updraw
wiredraw
withdraw