Word: draw Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English dragen, draghen, draue, drauen, drauhen, drawe, drawen, draȝe, draȝen, draȝhenn (“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, haul”), from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to carry, draw, pull”); further etymology uncertain, often said to be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull, run”), 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 Cognate with North Frisian drai, dreeg, dreege (“to carry; to wear”), West Frisian drage (“to carry”), Central Franconian draan, drage, droon (“to bear, carry”), Dutch dragen (“to carry; to wear; to transfer”), German tragen (“to bear, carry; to wear; to support”), Low German dregen (“to carry, take”), Luxembourgish droen (“to carry; to hold, support; to wear; to travel; to fruit”), Yiddish טראָגן (trogn, “to carry, to wear; to be pregnant”), Zealandic draege, draoge (“to carry”), Danish drage (“to draw”), Elfdalian drågå (“to drag, draw, pull”), Faroese and Icelandic draga (“to drag, draw, pull”), Gutnish dräga (“to pull”), Norwegian Bokmål dra, drage (“to drag, draw, pull”), Norwegian Nynorsk dra, draga, drage, drågå, dråggå (“to drag, pull; to leave”), Swedish dra, draga (“to draw, pull; to consume; to leave; to run; to steep”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌽 (dragan, “to carry, draw, pull”); also Old Irish droch (“wheel; circlet”), Latin tragō, trahō (“to drag, pull; to trail; to extract; to plunder; to draw out; to protract; to consider, ponder, weigh”), Greek τρέχω (trécho, “to run; to flee; to flow; to execute”), Russian дро́га (dróga, “rail or perch in a cart”), Armenian դուրգ (durg, “to potter’s wheel”). Pronunciation: /dɹɑ/, /dɹɔ/, [d͡ʒɹɔ], [d͡ʒɹɔɹ], /dɹɔː/ 1. That which draws: that which attracts e.g. a crowd. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes. Example: After It, Clara became one of the top box-office draws in Hollywood, but her popularity was short lived. 2. The act of drawing: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the Wild West's quick-draw champion 3. The act of drawing: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The draw is on Saturday. Example: Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw. 4. The act of drawing: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This configuration offered the capacity for an exceptionally long draw – Manchu archers drew all the way back to the point of the right shoulder[…] 5. The result of drawing: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The game ended in a draw. 6. The result of drawing: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. That which is drawn (e.g. funds from an account). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They're going to take away our draw! (referring to e.g. disability assistance) 8. That which is drawn (e.g. funds from an account). Labels: countable, uncountable 9. Draft: flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: She looked in [to the stove] and a tight, dismayed gasp escaped her. She slammed the door shut and adjusted the draw with trembling fingers. For a moment—just a moment—she had seen her old friend Annabelle Frane in the coals. 10. The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout. Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral. 14. A bag of cannabis. Labels: countable, slang Example: So my friends and I would all chip in money to get a bag of weed or a draw. Example: I'm twenty-something young with my priorities straight / I need to buy a booze and I need to buy a draw 15. Cannabis. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Selling draw to your mates but it's really Oxo cubes. Example: Mick spoke to Simon, who was more of a drinker. He said that people who smoked draw were boring. 16. A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The player to your left immediately raises you the minimum by clicking the raise button. This action immediately suggests that he's on a draw 17. The stall from which a horse begins the race. Labels: countable, uncountable