Drawing

Verb
drawing



Noun

 * 1) A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
 * 2) The act of producing such a picture.
 * 3) Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
 * 4) An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat).

Derived terms

 * technical drawing

Related terms

 * draft
 * drawer
 * drawn work

Adjectives for Drawing
water-color; modernistic; free-hand; magnificent; clever; amazing; delectable; symbolical; beautiful; holy; exquisite; sophisticated; sketchy; charcoal; crude; sturdy; grotesque; impeccable; bewildering; distinguished; detailed; icicle-like; naturalistic ; hideous.

Verbs for Drawing
collect—s; embellish—; exhibit—; interest in—; model for—; pen—; pencil—; pose for—; praise—; produce—; scratch out—; sit for—; sketch—; study—; translate—; —attracts; —depicts; —imparts; —represents ; —reveals; —symbolizes.

Thesaurus
adductive, alluring, alphabet, appealing, art, aspiration, attracting, attraction, attractive, attrahent, avulsion, bewitching, bingo, black and white, bleeding, bloodletting, blueprint, broaching, brouillon, captivating, cartoon, charactering, characterization, charcoal, charcoal drawing, charming, chart, chiaroscuro, choreography, class lottery, composition, conventional representation, copy, crayon, cupping, cutting out, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, deracination, design, diagram, disentanglement, doodle, draft, draft lottery, drafting, dragging, drainage, draining, drama, drawing out, drayage, dredging, drilling, ebauche, elevation, emptying, enchanting, enucleation, eradication, esquisse, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, exemplification, expression, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fascinating, figuration, figure, grab bag, graph, graphic artist, graphic arts, graphics, ground plan, haulage, hauling, heaving, hieroglyphic, house plan, ichnography, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, interest lottery, keno, letter, limning, line drawing, logogram, logograph, lottery, lotto, magnetic, magnetized, map, milking, mining, monochrome, musical notation, notation, number lottery, numbers pool, outline, painting, pastel, pattern, pen-and-ink, pencil drawing, phlebotomy, photography, pictogram, picture, picturization, pipetting, plan, plot, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, pressing out, printing, printmaking, profile, projection, pull, pulling, pulling power, pumping, quarrying, raffle, realization, relief-carving, removal, rendering, rendition, representation, ripping out, rough, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, schema, score, script, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, siphoning, skeleton, sketch, sketching, squeezing out, study, sucking, suction, sweep, sweepstake, sweepstakes, syllabary, symbol, sympathetic, tablature, table, tapping, tombola, tontine, towage, towing, tracing, traction, tractive, tractive power, tug-of-war, tugging, unrooting, uprooting, venesection, vignette, withdrawal, working drawing, wresting out, writing

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Bulgarian: рисунка,
 * Catalan: dibuix
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (túhuà)
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: desegnaĵo
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: nutata
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek:, σχεδίασμα
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 그림 (geulim)
 * Navajo:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: рисуване,чертане
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (huìtú)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: desegnado


 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: nutata
 * Finnish:
 * Slovene: risanje
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: desegnado
 * Greek:


 * Navajo:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: теглене
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (chōuqiān)
 * Finnish: nostoarvonta
 * French:
 * German: Auslosung,


 * Greek: κλήρωση
 * Portuguese: sorteio
 * Romanian: tragere (la sorţi)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:


 * : σχεδίαση
 * : dessin
 * : gambar, lukisan


 * : 絵 (え, e)
 * : kresba

Anagrams

 * warding