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Meaning of 'drawing' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Drawing [ n.]
- The act of pulling, or attracting.
- 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.
- 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.
- The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
- The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
2 . Drawing [ p. pr. & vb. n.]
- of Draw

Meaning of 'drawing' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . drawing [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines
Example in sentence:
  • drawings of abstract forms;
  • he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures
Meaning (2):
- the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams
Example in sentence:
  • he learned drawing from his father
Meaning (3):
- an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper
Example in sentence:
  • it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7
Meaning (4):
- act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source
Example in sentence:
  • the drawing of water from the well

Nearby Words:

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