Drawing
['drɔː(r)ɪŋ] or ['drɔɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source; 'the drawing of water from the well'.
(noun.) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams; 'he learned drawing from his father'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper; 'it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7'.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draw
(n.) The act of pulling, or attracting.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
(n.) The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Typist: Vance
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Art of delineation.[2]. Delineation, sketch, picture, plan, outline, draught.
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Examples
- A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The pleasanter face which had replaced his, on the occasion of my last visit, answered to our summons, and went before us to the drawing-room. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When Mr Crich heard that Gudrun Brangwen might come to help Winifred with her drawing and modelling he saw a road to salvation for his child. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I went into the kitchen, the butler's pantry, the gun-room, the billiard-room, the drawing-room, and finally the dining-room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- As soon as the current flows, the coils become magnetic and attract the soft iron armature, drawing it forward and causing the clapper to strike the bell. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He rummaged in his coat pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted paper, he laid it out upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The _fad_ of drawing plans! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The drawing benches resemble long tables, with a bench on either side, at one end of which is an iron box secured to the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Riderhood was drawing away from it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Shut into the drawing-room, the pair took seats, each in an arm-chair, placed opposite, a few yards between them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The hour for my departure was now drawing near. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His progress in these was almost equal to that he had made in drawing. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Lubbock made drawings for me, with the camera lucida, of the jaws which I dissected from the workers of the several sizes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Before its introduction it was not possible to reproduce cheaply in printers’ ink shaded pictures like photographs, brush drawings, paintings, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Possibly the first drawings began as children's drawings begin, out of idle scratchings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After Edison had decided this question, Upton made drawings and tables from which the real armatures were wound and connected to the commutator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Before I could say a word she had turned away to her book-case, and had taken from it the album that contained Walter Hartright's drawings. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As he made the drawings he did not figure the charges. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She slumbered towards the afternoon, and I put away the book of drawings so that she might not see it when she woke. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- No crowding, said Mr. Rochester: take the drawings from my hand as I finish with them; but don't push your faces up to mine. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I know what your drawings are. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The one on the right hand shows it as seen with the right eye, and the other as it looks with the left eye; and if both drawings be combined into one image, it stands out in bold relief. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The vast majority of their drawings represent animals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He brought three drawings to Edison, who examined them and said none of them would answer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Marianne's pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of; and Elinor's drawings were affixed to the walls of their sitting room. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- If I die first, promise you will give him this little book of his drawings, with my hair in it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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