draw

verb

1. (formal, often, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

   “He drew a sheaf of papers from his bag.”

   “Lys shuddered, and I put my arm around her and drew her to me; and thus we sat throughout the hot night. She told me of her abduction and of the fright she had undergone, and together we thanked God that she had come through unharmed, because the great brute had dared not pause along the danger-infested way.”

   “At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.”

2. (transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

   “She settled in the window seat, drawing her leg up beneath her.”

3. (transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

   “She took a deep breath and drew her corset-strings.”

4. (transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

   “Seals […] throw their bodies forward, drawing their hinder-parts after them.”

5. (transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

   “She drew the curtains to let in the sunlight.”

   “You should draw the curtains at night for privacy.”

   “It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.”

6. (transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
7. (transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
8. (reflexive, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

   “He drew himself to his full height and glowered at the interloper.”

9. (figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

   “How long her face is drawn!”

10. (archaic, figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
11. (archaic, figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

    “the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee”

12. (figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
13. (figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
14. (archaic, figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
15. (figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
16. (figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

    “[…] the golfer thinks, “Ah! To draw the ball, I must be like the old pros and incorporate hand action through impact, twisting the clubhead to the left.” All you have to do to apply the spin needed to draw the ball left is to create a very small conflict between the clubface aim and the path the clubhead is traveling.”

17. (figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

    “This ship draws ten feet of water.”

18. (historical, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

    “And if any manner of perſon attempted to moue the King to infringe any parte of thys ordynaunce, and that being knowne, for the firſt time, he ſhould be depriued of his goodes and poſſeſſions, and for the ſecond time, to be drawen thorough the Citie, and ſo put to execution as an arrant traytor.”

19. (historical, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
20. (transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
21. (transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
22. (transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
23. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
24. (UK, regional, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
25. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
26. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
27. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
28. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
29. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
30. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
31. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
32. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
33. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
34. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
35. (intransitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
36. (intransitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
37. (figuratively, intransitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
38. (figuratively, intransitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
39. (figuratively, intransitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

    “Greater hulks draw deep.”

40. (archaic, intransitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

    “This horse draws well.”

41. (archaic, intransitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

    “The carriage draws easily.”

42. (archaic, intransitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

    “water[…] will shrink or draw into less room”

43. (intransitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
44. (Scotland, archaic, figuratively, intransitive)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
45. (intransitive, obsolete)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
46. (intransitive, obsolete)Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.

    “[…] No rogue e'er felt the halter [i.e., the hangman's noose] draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it.”

47. (transitive)Senses relating to attracting.

    “From the moment she entered the room, all eyes were drawn to her.”

    “His mind was drawn back to the events of the preceding morning.”

    “Handsignalmen, where needed, ought to wear a conspicuous orange/yellow cape (like many road workmen) to draw attention to them.”

48. (transitive)Senses relating to attracting.

    “A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.”

    “The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.”

49. (transitive)Senses relating to attracting.

    “These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]”

    “Keep a watch upon the particular bias which nature has fixed in their minds, that it may not draw too much.”

50. (transitive)Senses relating to attracting.

    “The president’s comments have drawn strong criticism from right-wing media outlets.”

51. (transitive)Senses relating to attracting.

    “In a desperately tight opening set, the pace and accuracy of the Serbian's groundstrokes began to draw errors from the usually faultless Nadal and earned him the first break point of the day at 5-4.”

52. (transitive)Senses relating to attracting.
53. (transitive)Senses relating to attracting.
54. (transitive)Senses relating to attracting.

    “I drew a deep breath and wiped my brow.”

    “Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.”

    “So always look on the bright side of death, / Just before you draw your terminal breath.”

55. (transitive)Senses relating to attracting.
56. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to attracting.
57. (transitive)Senses relating to attracting.
58. (intransitive)Senses relating to attracting.
59. (intransitive)Senses relating to attracting.
60. (intransitive)Senses relating to attracting.

    “The chimney won’t draw properly if it’s clogged up with soot.”

61. (intransitive)Senses relating to attracting.
62. (intransitive)Senses relating to attracting.
63. (transitive)Senses relating to extending or protracting.

    “The dough was run through the pasta machine and drawn into a long ribbon.”

64. (transitive)Senses relating to extending or protracting.
65. (transitive)Senses relating to extending or protracting.

    “to draw a mass of metal into wire”

66. (transitive)Senses relating to extending or protracting.
67. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to extending or protracting.
68. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to extending or protracting.
69. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to extending or protracting.
70. (intransitive)Senses relating to extending or protracting.
71. (intransitive)Senses relating to extending or protracting.
72. (intransitive)Senses relating to extending or protracting.

    “The ship’s sail drew when the wind blew strongly.”

73. (intransitive, obsolete)Senses relating to extending or protracting.
74. (intransitive, obsolete)Senses relating to extending or protracting.
75. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
76. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

    “Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.”

77. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

    “The cat scratched her, drawing blood.”

78. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
79. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

    “They drew their swords and fought each other.”

    “Matthew Garth woulda let Tom Dunstan drill him insteada drawin’ against him.”

    “Pensak made an inarticulate shout of surprise, and O stepped away from the sudden precipice so hard that she collided with the back of the elevator, and yelped. Both of them drew their weapons, as they were trained to do when confronted with the unknown, and there was something almost touchingly naïve about that. About drawing down on a featureless void.”

80. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
81. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

    “to draw water from a well using a bucket”

82. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
83. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
84. (historical, transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
85. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

    “In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.”

86. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
87. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
88. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

    “The winning lottery numbers were drawn every Tuesday.”

    “Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn.”

    “In the drawing of lots, my sister drew her own room, and I drew Master B.'s.”

    “Well, he was up in Wyoming / And drew a bull no man could ride / He promised her he'd turn out / Well, it turned out that he lied”

89. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
90. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
91. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
92. (archaic, transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

    “Go, wash thy face, and draw thy action.”

93. (UK, archaic, regional, transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
94. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
95. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

    “At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card.”

96. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
97. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

    ““Gave us a jolly good run. Viewed him across Gamley Heath, drew Meddington Big Wood, and then we lost him. Daddy was livid.””

98. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

    “I drew my last game against him.”

    “The game is won when a player places any of his pieces on the same square with his opponent's Princess, or when a Chief takes a Chief. It is drawn when a Chief is taken by any opposing piece other than the opposing Chief;[…]”

99. (transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
100. (historical, transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
101. (Northern, Scotland, transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
102. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
103. (obsolete, rare, transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
104. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
105. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
106. Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

     “The circuit draws three hundred watts.”

107. Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

     “He drew comfort from the thought that he was not the first to suffer this way.”

     “She draws her subject matter from the events of her own life.”

     “[Chappell] Roan draws from the mega-pop of the 2010s, from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift – then laces it with sexually frank asides and lavish doses of camp, and performs it with a maximalist, absurd aesthetic indebted to drag, John Waters and Freddie Mercury.”

108. Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

     “I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until / You have drawn oaths from him not to stay.”

109. Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

     “He tried to draw a conclusion from the facts.”

     “We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.”

110. Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

     “to draw money from a bank”

111. Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

     “He refused to be drawn on the subject”

112. (intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
113. (intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

     “The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.”

114. (intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
115. (intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

     “Tea is much nicer if you let it draw for more than two minutes before pouring.”

     “"There's your tay set for you an' drawin' nicely this minute, Miss Ethel," called old Bridget from the hall.”

     “She made a pot of very strong tea, and while she was waiting for it to draw she opened the kitchen door to inspect her garden.”

116. (intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
117. (intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
118. (intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
119. (archaic, intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
120. (intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

     “Jill has four diamonds; she’ll try to draw for a flush.”

121. (intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
122. (intransitive)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.

     “We drew the last time we played.”

123. (intransitive, obsolete)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
124. (intransitive, obsolete)Senses relating to extracting or selecting.
125. (archaic, reflexive)Senses relating to moving or travelling.

     “She thought she heard a noise in her chamber, and she drew herself within the casement.”

126. (intransitive)Senses relating to moving or travelling.

     “The runners drew level with each other as they approached the finish line.”

     “Draw near to the fire and I will tell you a tale.”

     “The end of the world draws near.”

     “Heavy clouds drew together above our heads.”

127. Senses relating to moving or travelling.

     “As it drew towards evening, I packed up and headed for home.”

     “As the war drew to its end, it became evident that repairs and rebuilding in the heavily blitzed Greater London area would be so extensive as to afford opportunity for effective large-scale planning.”

128. (archaic)Senses relating to moving or travelling.

     “On one of my expeditions, after a stormy night, at the end of March, the hounds drew all day without finding a fox.”

129. (transitive)Senses relating to depicting or representing.

     “He had drawn a mural on the wall of his apartment.”

     “A flattering painter, vvho made it his care / To dravv men as they ought to be, not as they are.”

     “Can I untouch'd the Fair ones Paſſions move? / Or Thou draw Beauty, and not feel it's Pow'r?”

     “Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.”

130. (transitive)Senses relating to depicting or representing.
131. (transitive)Senses relating to depicting or representing.
132. (transitive)Senses relating to depicting or representing.
133. (transitive)Senses relating to depicting or representing.

     “to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange”

     “Clerk, draw a deed of gift.”

134. (figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to depicting or representing.

     “Her first novel contained a host of characters who were richly and convincingly drawn.”

135. (transitive)Senses relating to depicting or representing.
136. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to depicting or representing.
137. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to depicting or representing.
138. (intransitive)Senses relating to depicting or representing.

     “When I came in she was drawing on a big piece of coloured paper.”

intj

1. Pull back your bowstring in preparation to shoot.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)That which draws: that which attracts e.g. a crowd.

   “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.”

   “After It, Clara became one of the top box-office draws in Hollywood, but her popularity was short lived.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The act of drawing:

   “the Wild West's quick-draw champion”

3. (countable, uncountable)The act of drawing:

   “The draw is on Saturday.”

   “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. (countable, uncountable)The act of drawing:

   “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. (countable, uncountable)The result of drawing:

   “The game ended in a draw.”

6. (countable, uncountable)The result of drawing:
7. (countable, uncountable)That which is drawn (e.g. funds from an account).

   “They're going to take away our draw! (referring to e.g. disability assistance)”

8. (countable, uncountable)That which is drawn (e.g. funds from an account).
9. (countable, uncountable)Draft: flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.

   “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. (countable, uncountable)The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
11. (countable, uncountable)A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
12. (countable, uncountable)A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
13. (countable, uncountable)A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.

    “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. (countable, slang)A bag of cannabis.

    “So my friends and I would all chip in money to get a bag of weed or a draw.”

    “I'm twenty-something young with my priorities straight / I need to buy a booze and I need to buy a draw”

15. (slang, uncountable)Cannabis.

    “Selling draw to your mates but it's really Oxo cubes.”

    “Mick spoke to Simon, who was more of a drinker. He said that people who smoked draw were boring.”

16. (countable, uncountable)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.

    “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. (countable, uncountable)The stall from which a horse begins the race.