Draw vs. Equal — What's the Difference?

To sketch or make a picture.

To be the same as or match up to in value or degree.

To attract attention or interest.

Balanced or even.

Produce (a picture or diagram) by making lines and marks on paper with a pencil, pen, etc.

Fair or impartial.

Pull or drag (something such as a vehicle) so as to make it follow behind

Being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value

Extract (an object) from a container or receptacle

Having the ability or resources to meet (a challenge)

Take or obtain (liquid) from a container or receptacle

A person or thing that is the same as another in status or quality

Select (a ticket or name) randomly to decide winners in a lottery, opponents in a sporting contest, etc.

Be the same as in number or amount

Be the cause of (a specified response)

Having the same quantity, measure, or value as another.

Select (a ticket or name) randomly to decide winners in a lottery, opponents in a sporting contest, etc.

(Mathematics) Being the same or identical to in value.

Finish (a contest or game) with an even score

Having the same privileges, status, or rights

(in bowls) cause (a bowl) to travel in a curve determined by its bias to the desired point.

Being the same for all members of a group

(of a ship) require (a specified depth of water) to float in

Having the requisite qualities, such as strength or ability, for a task or situation

(of a sail) be filled with wind

Similar to or the same as another, as in ability

An act of selecting names randomly to decide winners in a lottery, opponents in a sporting contest, etc.

One that is equal to another

A game or contest that ends with the score even

To be equal to, especially in value.

A person or thing that is very attractive or interesting

To do, make, or produce something equal to

An act of drawing on a cigarette or cigar

(not comparable) The same in all respects.

An act of pulling a gun from its holster in order to shoot

Exactly identical, having the same value.

A shot causing the ball to deviate slightly

(obsolete) Fair, impartial.

To cause to move after or toward one by applying continuous force; drag

(comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.

To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading

(obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.

To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something

(music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.

To cause to flow forth

To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.

To suck or take in (air, for example); inhale.

(transitive) To make equivalent to; to cause to match.

To require (a specified depth of water) for floating

(informal) To have as its consequence.

To take or pull out

A person or thing of equal status to others.

To extract or take for one's own use

(obsolete) State of being equal; equality.

To make (tea) by steeping.

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; - applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc. ; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature or talents; commodities of equal value.

To eviscerate; disembowel

Bearing a suitable relation; of just proportion; having competent power, abilities, or means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task.

To cause to come by attracting; attract

Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement.

To select or take in from a given group, type, or region

Evenly balanced; not unduly inclining to either side; characterized by fairness; unbiased; impartial; equitable; just.

To bring to a certain condition or action; lead

Of the same interest or concern; indifferent.

To bring about deliberately; provoke

Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; - opposed to mixed.

To evoke as a response; elicit

Exactly agreeing with respect to quantity.

To earn; gain

One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal."

To withdraw (money).

State of being equal; equality.

To use (a check, for example) when paying.

To be or become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or rank, or the like, with; to be commen urate with.

To receive on a regular basis or at a specified time

To make equal return to; to recompense fully.

To take or receive by chance

To make equal or equal to; to equalize; hence, to compare or regard as equals; to put on equality.

To take (cards) from a dealer or central stack.

A person who is of equal standing with another in a group

To force (a card) to be played.

Be identical or equivalent to;

To end or leave (a contest) tied or undecided.

Be equal to in quality or ability;

To hit or strike (a billiard ball, for example) so as to give it backspin.

Make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching;

To hit (a golf ball) with a draw.

Well matched; having the same quantity, value, or measure as another;

To make tense or taut

Equal in amount or value;

To pull back the string of (a bow).

Having the same value, amount, or status.

To distort the shape of

Identical in form or character.

To flatten, stretch, or mold (metal) by hammering or die stamping.

To shape or elongate (a wire, for example) by pulling through dies.

To inscribe (a line or lines) with a pencil or other marking implement.

To make a likeness of on a surface, using mostly lines; depict with lines

To portray in writing or speech; depict with words

To formulate or devise from evidence or data at hand

To compose or write out in legal format

To proceed or move steadily

To attract customers or spectators

To pour forth liquid

To cause suppuration.

To take in a draft of air

To steep in or as if in the manner of tea.

To pull out a weapon for use.

To use or call upon part of a fund or supply

To contract or tighten

To conclude a contest without either side winning; tie

To make a likeness with lines on a surface; sketch.

An act of drawing.

The result of drawing.

Something drawn, especially a lot, card, or cards drawn at random.

The arrangement of competitors in a tournament in which the matchups are made at random.

A matchup or opponent in such a tournament.

An inhalation, especially through a pipe or other smoking implement.

One that attracts interest, customers, or spectators

The movable part of a drawbridge.

A special advantage; an edge

A contest ending without either side winning.

A small natural depression that water drains into; a shallow gully.

(Football) A play in which the quarterback drops back as if to pass and then runs or hands off to a running back.

(Sports) A face-off.

(Games) A draw shot.

(Sports) A moderate, usually controlled hook in golf.

To move or develop something.

To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.

To deduce or infer.

To steep, leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase.

(transitive) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc.

To take into the lungs; to inhale.

(used with prepositions and adverbs) To move; to come or go.

To approach, come to, or arrive at a point in time or a process.

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

To withdraw.

(archaic) To draw up (a document).

To exert or experience force.

(transitive) To drag, pull.

(intransitive) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling.

To pull out, unsheathe (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth).

To undergo the action of pulling or dragging.

(archery) To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting.

(of curtains, etc.) To close.

(of curtains, etc.) To open.

(cards) To take the top card of a deck into hand.

(fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.

To extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out, primarily water or blood.

To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

(figurative) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

To work as an epispastic; said of a blister, poultice, etc.

(intransitive) To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc.

(analogous) To consume, for example, power.

To change in size or shape.

To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch.

(intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink.

To attract or be attracted.

To attract.

To induce (a reticent person) to speak.

(hunting) To search for game.

To cause.

(intransitive) To exert an attractive force; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.

(usually as draw on or draw upon) To rely on; utilize as a source.

To disembowel.

To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).

To choose by means of a random selection process.

To select by the drawing of lots.

(transitive) To win in a lottery or similar game of chance.

(poker) To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out.

(curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.

(cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

(golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.

(billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.

The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.

The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.

Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.

The act of drawing.

(cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).

(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.

(curling) A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.

(geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.

A bag of cannabis.

Cannabis.

In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.

(poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.

(archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.

(sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.

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.

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.

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.

To pull from a sheath, as a sword.

To remove the contents of

To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

To withdraw.

To trace by scent; to track; - a hunting term.

To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

To leave (a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn.

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.

To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.

To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

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

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

To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.

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

To become contracted; to shrink.

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, draw nigh, or draw towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.

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

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

To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

The act of drawing; draught.

A lot or chance to be drawn.

The act of drawing a lot or chance.

A drawn game or battle, etc; a tied game; a tie.

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.

The result of drawing, or state of being drawn;

That which is drawn or is subject to drawing.

A gully that is shallower than a ravine

An entertainer who attracts large audiences;

The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided;

Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random;

A playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack;

A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer;

(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

Poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer;

The act of drawing or hauling something;

Cause to move along the ground by pulling;

Get or derive;

Make a mark or lines on a surface;

Make, formulate, or derive in the mind;

Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover;

Represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface;

Take liquid out of a container or well;

Give a description of;

Select or take in from a given group or region;

Elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.;

Suck in or take (air);

Move or go steadily or gradually;

Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source);

Choose at random;

In baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher;

Bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition;

Cause to flow;

Write a legal document or paper;

Engage in drawing;

Move or pull so as to cover or uncover something;

Allow a draft;

Require a specified depth for floating;

Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him;

Take in, also metaphorically;

Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes;

Thread on or as if on a string;

Pull back the sling of (a bow);

Guide or pass over something;

Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.;

Contract;

Reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die;

Steep; pass through a strainer;

Remove the entrails of;

Flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching;

Cause to localize at one point;

A tie in a competition or game.

To pull or drag.

To extract or take out.

Yes, "equal" can be a verb, meaning to match up to or be the same as in value or degree.

In sports, "draw" refers to a tie, where neither side wins or loses.

No, "equal" can be used in various contexts, not just mathematics, to signify sameness or equivalence.

In art, "draw" means to sketch or make a picture.

Yes, two things can have differences but still be equal in value, importance, or rights.

Yes, "draw" can be a noun, as in "a tie" in sports, or a verb, as in "to sketch."

Yes, "draw" can also mean to come to a close, as in "as the evening draws to an end."

Not always. "Equal" can also signify equivalence or fairness, not just exact sameness.

Yes, "draw" can mean to attract, as in "drawing attention," or to pull, as in "drawing a cart."

"Draw" can mean to take out or extract, like drawing water from a well.

In the context of rights, "equal" signifies that everyone has the same rights or is treated with the same fairness and justice.

In the context of firearms, "draw" can mean to pull out a weapon, as in "to draw a gun."

In math, when two values are "equal," they have the same quantity or value.

Yes, "equal" can be a noun, referring to a person or thing considered the same as another in status or quality.

In relation to curtains, "draw" means to close or open them, as in "to draw the curtains."