Draw vs. Pull — What's the Difference?

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

To apply force to (something) so as to cause or tend to cause motion toward the source of the force

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

To remove from a fixed position; extract

Extract (an object) from a container or receptacle

To tug at; jerk or tweak

Take or obtain (liquid) from a container or receptacle

To rip or tear; rend

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

To stretch (taffy, for example) repeatedly.

Be the cause of (a specified response)

To strain (a muscle, for example) injuriously.

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

(Informal) To attract; draw

Finish (a contest or game) with an even score

(Slang) To draw out (a weapon) in readiness for use

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

(Informal) To remove

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

(Sports) To hit (a ball) so that it moves in the direction away from the dominant hand of the player propelling it, as to the left of a right-handed player.

(of a sail) be filled with wind

To operate (an oar) in rowing.

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

To transport or propel by rowing.

A game or contest that ends with the score even

To be rowed by

A person or thing that is very attractive or interesting

To rein in (a horse) to keep it from winning a race.

An act of drawing on a cigarette or cigar

(Printing) To produce (a print or an impression) from type.

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

To exert force in moving something toward the source of the force

A shot causing the ball to deviate slightly

To move in a certain direction or toward a certain goal

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

To gain a position closer to an objective

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

To drink or inhale deeply

To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something

(Nautical) To row a boat.

To cause to flow forth

(Informal) To express or feel great sympathy or empathy

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

The act or process of pulling

To require (a specified depth of water) for floating

Force exerted in pulling or required to overcome resistance in pulling

To take or pull out

A sustained effort

To extract or take for one's own use

Something, such as a knob on a drawer, that is used for pulling.

To make (tea) by steeping.

A deep inhalation or draft, as on a cigarette or of a beverage.

To eviscerate; disembowel

(Slang) A means of gaining special advantage; influence

To cause to come by attracting; attract

(Informal) The ability to draw or attract; appeal

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

To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.

To bring to a certain condition or action; lead

To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.

To bring about deliberately; provoke

(transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.

To evoke as a response; elicit

To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.

To earn; gain

(transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.

To withdraw (money).

(transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.

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

(construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.

To receive on a regular basis or at a specified time

To do or perform.

To take or receive by chance

(with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.

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

To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.

To force (a card) to be played.

(intransitive) To row.

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

To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.

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

To draw apart; to tear; to rend.

To hit (a golf ball) with a draw.

(transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).

To make tense or taut

To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.

To pull back the string of (a bow).

(UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.

To distort the shape of

(horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.

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

To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.

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

To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)

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

(UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.

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

(intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.

To portray in writing or speech; depict with words

To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

To formulate or devise from evidence or data at hand

To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).

To compose or write out in legal format

(sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.

To proceed or move steadily

An act of pulling applying force toward oneself.

To attract customers or spectators

An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.

To pour forth liquid

An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.

To cause suppuration.

Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.

To take in a draft of air

Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest.

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

Or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).

To pull out a weapon for use.

The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology

To use or call upon part of a fund or supply

A journey made by rowing.

To contract or tighten

(dated) A contest; a struggle.

To conclude a contest without either side winning; tie

Loss or violence suffered.

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

(colloquial) The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.

An act of drawing.

(cricket) A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.

The result of drawing.

(golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.

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

A single impression from a handpress.

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

(printing) A proof sheet.

A matchup or opponent in such a tournament.

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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

To draw apart; to tear; to rend.

One that attracts interest, customers, or spectators

To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.

The movable part of a drawbridge.

To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.

A special advantage; an edge

To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.

A contest ending without either side winning.

To take or make, as a proof or impression; - hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.

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

To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.

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

The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.

(Sports) A face-off.

A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.

(Games) A draw shot.

A pluck; loss or violence suffered.

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

A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.

To move or develop something.

The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.

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

The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.

To deduce or infer.

Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.

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

A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.

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

The act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you;

To take into the lungs; to inhale.

The force used in pulling;

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

Special advantage or influence;

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

A device used for pulling something;

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

A sharp strain on muscles or ligaments;

To withdraw.

A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke);

(archaic) To draw up (a document).

A sustained effort;

To exert or experience force.

Cause to move along the ground by pulling;

(transitive) To drag, pull.

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

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

Move into a certain direction;

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

Apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion;

To undergo the action of pulling or dragging.

Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation;

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

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

(of curtains, etc.) To close.

Steer into a certain direction;

(of curtains, etc.) To open.

Strain abnormally;

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

Cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense;

(fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.

Operate when rowing a boat;

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

Rein in to keep from winning a race;

To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

Tear or be torn violently;

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

Hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing;

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

Strip of feathers;

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

Draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense;

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

Take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for;

(analogous) To consume, for example, power.

Take away;

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;