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 Definitions of drawing  [ˈdrɔ ɪŋ]  

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Definition of 'drawing' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) drawing
the act of a person or thing that draws.

2.  drawing
a graphic representation by lines, tones, or colors of an object or idea:
The gallery sells drawings in pencil, pen, charcoal, pastel, and watercolor.

3.  drawing
such a representation depicting form without reference to color:
She does drawings, not paintings.

4.  drawing
a visual presentation, as of a plan or design, through a sketch or finished rendering.

5.  drawing
a graphic representation produced on a computer with specialized software.

6.  drawing
the art or technique of making these.

7.  drawing
something decided by drawing lots; lottery.

8.  drawing
the selection, or time of selection, of the winning chance or chances sold by lottery or raffle.

Etymology:  (1275–1325)

Definition of 'drawing' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) drawing
an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper
"it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7"

2. (noun) drawing
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"

3. (noun) drawing, draftsmanship, drafting
the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams
"he learned drawing from his father"

4. (noun) lottery, drawing
players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots

5. (noun) drawing, drawing off
act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source
"the drawing of water from the well"

6. (noun) draft, draught, drawing
the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling


Definition of 'drawing' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) drawing
a picture made with a pencil or pen, or the skill of doing this
to make/do a drawing of the bridge; He's good at drawing.


Definition of 'drawing' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) drawing
the act of pulling, or attracting

2. (noun) drawing
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. (noun) drawing
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. (noun) drawing
the process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning

5. (noun) drawing
the distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery

6.  drawing
of Draw


Translation of 'drawing' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (the art of making) a picture made with a pencil, crayon etc
the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci; I am no good at drawing.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: sketse Arabic flag Arabic: رَسْم Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: рисуване
Brazilian flag Brazilian: desenho Czech flag Czech: kresba; kreslení German flag German: die Zeichnung, das Zeichn
Danish flag Danish: tegning Greek flag Greek: σχέδιο Spanish flag Spanish: dibujo
Estonian flag Estonian: joonistus, joonistamine Farsi flag Farsi: نقاشی Finnish flag Finnish: piirustus
French flag French: dessin Hebrew flag Hebrew: צִיוּר, שִׂרטוּט Hindi flag Hindi: आरेखण, चित्रांकन, चित्रका
Croatian flag Croatian: crtanje Hungarian flag Hungarian: rajz Indonesian flag Indonesian: gambar
Icelandic flag Icelandic: teikning Italian flag Italian: disegno Japanese flag Japanese: 線画
Korean flag Korean: 스케치 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: piešinys, piešimas Latvian flag Latvian: zīmēšana
Malay flag Malay: lukisan Dutch flag Dutch: tekening Norwegian flag Norwegian: tegning
Polish flag Polish: rysowanie, rysunek Persian flag Persian: نقاشی Pashto flag Pashto: نقاشى
Portuguese flag Portuguese: desenho Romanian flag Romanian: desen Russian flag Russian: рисунок; рисование
Slovak flag Slovak: kresba Slovenian flag Slovenian: risanje Serbian flag Serbian: slika
Swedish flag Swedish: teckning Thai flag Thai: ภาพวาด Turkish flag Turkish: resimçizme, karakalem res
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 繪圖,繪圖藝術 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: рисунок; рисування Urdu flag Urdu: خاقہ کشی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự vẽ Chinese flag Chinese: 图画

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