drawing
d raw ing
- n an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper
it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7 - n 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 - n the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams
he learned drawing from his father - n players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
- n act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source
the drawing of water from the well - n the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
- v cause to move by pulling
- v get or derive
- v make a mark or lines on a surface
- v make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- v bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- v represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface
- v take liquid out of a container or well
- v give a description of
- v select or take in from a given group or region
- v elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
- v suck in or take (air)
- v move or go steadily or gradually
- v remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- v choose at random
- v earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- v bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
- v cause to flow
- v write a legal document or paper
- v engage in drawing
He spent the day drawing in the garden - v move or pull so as to cover or uncover something
- v allow a draft
- v require a specified depth for floating
- v pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
- v cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- v take in, also metaphorically
- v direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- v thread on or as if on a string
- v stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
The archers were drawing their bows - v pass over, across, or through
- v finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- v contract
- v reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die
- v steep; pass through a strainer
- v remove the entrails of
- v flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
- v cause to localize at one point
- The wall drawings of Sol LeWitt are art's equivalent of gifts that come with "some assembly required.
- When French-Khmer graphic artist Ing Phousra or Sra, to use his pen name first started drawing comics about life under the Khmer Rouge, he didn't have a lot to go on .
- But in 1968 he made his first wall drawing at the Paula Cooper gallery in Manhattan, a drawing (which he executed himself) of a kind that not only brought drawing back to its most .