Draw

[drɔː] or [drɔ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the act of drawing or hauling something; 'the haul up the hill went very slowly'.

(noun.) poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer; 'he played only draw and stud'.

(noun.) (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage.

(noun.) a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack; 'he got a pair of kings in the draw'.

(noun.) anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random; 'the luck of the draw'; 'they drew lots for it'.

(noun.) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided; 'the game ended in a draw'; 'their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie'.

(noun.) a gully that is shallower than a ravine.

(verb.) cause to localize at one point; 'Draw blood and pus'.

(verb.) flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching; 'draw steel'.

(verb.) reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die; 'draw wire'.

(verb.) contract; 'The material drew after it was washed in hot water'.

(verb.) make, formulate, or derive in the mind; 'I draw a line here'; 'draw a conclusion'; 'draw parallels'; 'make an estimate'; 'What do you make of his remarks?'.

(verb.) choose at random; 'draw a card'; 'cast lots'.

(verb.) move or pull so as to cover or uncover something; 'draw the shades'; 'draw the curtains'.

(verb.) earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher; 'He drew a base on balls'.

(verb.) engage in drawing; 'He spent the day drawing in the garden'.

(verb.) represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface; 'She drew an elephant'; 'Draw me a horse'.

(verb.) write a legal document or paper; 'The deed was drawn in the lawyer's office'.

(verb.) elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.; 'The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans'; 'The comedian drew a lot of laughter'.

(verb.) take liquid out of a container or well; 'She drew water from the barrel'.

(verb.) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; 'draw a weapon'; 'pull out a gun'; 'The mugger pulled a knife on his victim'.

(verb.) move or go steadily or gradually; 'The ship drew near the shore'.

(verb.) cause to flow; 'The nurse drew blood'.

(verb.) require a specified depth for floating; 'This boat draws 70 inches'.

(verb.) allow a draft; 'This chimney draws very well'.

(verb.) select or take in from a given group or region; 'The participants in the experiment were drawn from a representative population'.

(verb.) bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition; 'She was drawn to despair'; 'The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum'; 'The session was drawn to a close'.

(verb.) steep; pass through a strainer; 'draw pulp from the fruit'.

(verb.) pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him; 'in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes'.

校對:马里恩--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

(v. t.) To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.

(v. t.) To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.

(v. t.) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.

(v. t.) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

(v. t.) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

(v. t.) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.

(v. t.) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.

(v. t.) To select by the drawing of lots.

(v. t.) To remove the contents of

(v. t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

(v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.

(v. t.) To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.

(v. t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.

(v. t.) To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.

(v. t.) To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.

(v. t.) To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.

(v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.

(v. t.) To withdraw.

(v. t.) To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.

(v. i.) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.

(v. i.) To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.

(v. i.) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

(v. i.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.

(v. i.) To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.

(v. i.) To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.

(v. i.) To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.

(v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.

(v. i.) To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.

(v. i.) To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.

(v. i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.

(v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

(n.) The act of drawing; draught.

(n.) A lot or chance to be drawn.

(n.) A drawn game or battle, etc.

(n.) That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.

編輯:罗达

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Pull, drag, haul, tug, pull along.[2]. Attract, bring towards, pull towards.[3]. Suck, drain, suck dry.[4]. Inhale, inspire, breathe in, take into the lungs.[5]. Extract, take out, draw out.[6]. Induce, move, lead, allure, entice, engage, persuade, influence.[7]. Produce, bring, bear.[8]. Extend, protract, stretch, lengthen out.[9]. Describe, delineate, sketch, depict, trace, trace out.[10]. Deduce, derive, infer.[11]. Extort, force out.[12]. Compose, write, prepare, draw up.[13]. Gain, win.

v. n. [1]. Pull.[2]. Move, come, go, proceed.[3]. Sketch, practise drawing, or the art of delineation.[4]. Produce inflammation.[5]. Request payment by draft, make a draft.

整理:卢修斯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Drag, pull, attract, induce, haul, entice, inhale, sketch, delineate, describe

ANT:Push, carry, propel, throw, repel, drive, compel, impel, thrust

錄入:伦纳德

解釋/意思:

v.t. to pull along: to bring forcibly towards one: to entice attract: to coax into giving information: to make one express himself (also to Draw out a man): to inhale: to take out: to evoke or bring out by some artifice: to extract by pulling: to cast lots: to extract the essence of: to eviscerate (hang draw and quarter): to manufacture (wire) by drawing through a small hole: to deduce: to lengthen: to extend to the full length (as in drawing a bow): to force to appear (as a badger from its hole): to receive (as revenues): to demand money by a draft: to make a picture of by lines drawn: to describe: to require a depth of water for floating.—v.i. to pull: to practise drawing: to move: to approach: to have a free current (of a chimney):—pa.t. drew (drōō); pa.p. drawn.—n. the act of drawing: anything drawn: a drawn or undecided game.—adj. Draw′able.—ns. Draw′back a disadvantage: a receiving back some part of the duty on goods on their exportation; Draw′-bar (same as Drag-bar); Draw′-boy the boy who pulls the cords of the harness in figure-weaving a mechanical device for this purpose; Draw′bridge a bridge that can be drawn up or let down at pleasure; Drawēē′ the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn; Draw′er he or that which draws: one who draws beer or fetches liquor in a tavern: a thing drawn out like the sliding box in a case: (pl.) a close under-garment for the lower limbs; Draw′-gear the apparatus by which railway-cars are coupled; Draw′ing the art of representing objects by lines drawn shading &c.: a picture: the distribution of prizes as at a lottery; Draw′ing-board; Draw′ing-frame a machine in which carded wool cotton or the like is drawn out fine; Draw′ing-knife a knife with a handle at each end used by coopers for shaving hoops by drawing it towards one; Draw′ing-mas′ter; Draw′ing-pā′per; Draw′ing-pen; Draw′ing-pen′cil; Draw′ing-room in engineering a room where plans and patterns are drawn; Draw′ing-tā′ble a table which can be extended in length by drawing out sliding leaves; Draw′-net (same as Drag-net); Draw′-plate a plate of steel or ruby with a hole drilled in it through which wire tubing or the like is drawn to make it more slender; Draw′-well a well from which water is drawn up by a bucket and apparatus.—Draw a bead on (see Bead); Draw a blank (see Blank); Draw a cover to send the hounds into a cover to frighten out a fox; Draw blank to do so but find no fox; Draw back to retire: to withdraw from an engagement; Draw cuts to cast lots; Draw in to reduce contract: to become shorter; Draw it fine to be too precise; Draw it mild to state a thing without exaggeration; Draw near to approach; Draw off to take wine ale &c. out of a barrel: to retire; Draw on to approach (of a fixed date); Draw on one's imagination to make imaginative or lying statements; Draw on one's memory to try to remember; Draw out to leave the place (of an army) &c.; Draw over to persuade to desert to the other side; Draw rein to slacken speed to stop; Draw the line to fix a limit; Draw up to form in regular order: to arrange or to be arranged (as troops): to compose (as a protest &c.): to stop (as in driving a carriage).—In drawing correctly drawn; Out of drawing inaccurately drawn or drawn in violation of the principles of drawing.

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