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Definitions for: Drawing
[n] the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
[n] act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source; "the drawing of water from the well"
[n] players buy chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots
[n] the creation of artistic drawings; "he learned drawing from his father"
[n] picture produced by representing forms or objects on a surface by means of lines; "he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures"
[n] an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine; "it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.) 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.
Synonyms: draft, drafting, draftsmanship, draught, drawing off, lottery
See Also: architectural plan, art, art, artistic creation, artistic production, artwork, charcoal, delineation, depiction, derivation, diagram, drain, gambling game, game of chance, graphics, icon, ikon, image, limning, line drawing, lucky dip, mechanical drawing, nontextual matter, numbers, numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racket, pen-and-ink, picture, plan, pull, pulling, pyrography, raffle, rendering, silhouette, silverpoint, sketch, stick figure, study, sweepstake, sweepstakes, tombola, trace, tracing, tracing
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