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drawers
  • n  underpants worn by men
  • n  underpants worn by women
  • n  a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
  • n  the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
  • n  an artist skilled at drawing
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drawing
  • 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
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drawing-room car
  • n  a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs
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drawing board
  • n  a smooth board on which paper is placed for making drawings
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