Drawingverb
present participle of draw
Draughtsmannoun
A person skilled at drawing engineering or architectural plans.
Drawingnoun
A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
Draughtsmannoun
(obsolete) A book illustrator.
Drawingnoun
The act of producing such a picture.
Draughtsmannoun
A piece in the game of draughts (checkers).
Drawingnoun
Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
Draughtsmannoun
(obsolete) One who drinks drams; a tippler.
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.’;
Draughtsmannoun
One who draws pleadings or other writings.
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).
Draughtsmannoun
One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.
Drawingnoun
A small portion of tea for steeping.
Draughtsmannoun
A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.
Drawingnoun
The act of pulling, or attracting.
Draughtsmannoun
One who drinks drams; a tippler.
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.
Draughtsmannoun
a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines
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.
Drawingnoun
The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
Drawingnoun
The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Drawingnoun
an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine;
‘it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7’;
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’;
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).