Diagram vs. Drawing

Diagramnoun

A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.

‘Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.’;

Drawingverb

present participle of draw

Diagramnoun

A graph or chart.

Drawingnoun

A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

Diagramnoun

(category theory) A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C".

Drawingnoun

The act of producing such a picture.

Diagramverb

(transitive) To represent or indicate something using a diagram.

Drawingnoun

Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.

Diagramnoun

A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.

Drawingnoun

The process of drawing or pulling something.

‘Proverb: An official is great in his office as a well is rich in drawings of water.’;

Diagramnoun

Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one.

Drawingnoun

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).

Diagramverb

To put into the form of a diagram.

Drawingnoun

A small portion of tea for steeping.

Diagramnoun

a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts

Drawingnoun

The act of pulling, or attracting.

Diagramverb

make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed

Drawingnoun

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.

Diagramnoun

a simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure, or workings of something; a schematic representation

‘a diagram of the living room’;

Drawingnoun

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.

Diagramnoun

a figure composed of lines that is used to illustrate a definition or statement or to aid in the proof of a proposition.

Drawingnoun

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

Diagramnoun

a graphical schedule for operating railway locomotives and rolling stock in order to provide a desired service.

Drawingnoun

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

Diagramverb

represent (something) in graphic form

‘the experiment is diagrammed on page fourteen’;

Drawingnoun

an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine;

‘it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7’;

Diagramverb

schedule the operations of (a locomotive or train) according to a diagram.

Drawingnoun

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’;

Diagram

A diagram is a symbolic representation of information using visualization techniques. Diagrams have been used since ancient times on walls of caves, but became more prevalent during the Enlightenment.

Drawingnoun

the creation of artistic drawings;

‘he learned drawing from his father’;

Drawingnoun

players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots

Drawingnoun

act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source;

‘the drawing of water from the well’;

Drawingnoun

the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, erasers, markers, styluses, and metals (such as silverpoint).