draw
/dɹɑ/ noun A2- That which draws: that which attracts e.g. a crowd.
- The act of drawing a gun from a holster, etc. · the Wild West's quick-draw champion
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined. · The draw is on Saturday.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing; the distance the strings are pulled back.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won. · The game ended in a draw.
- 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).
- That which is drawn (e.g. funds from an account). · They're going to take away our draw! (referring to e.g. disability assistance)
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
Plural draws
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- draw away To move away.
- draw back to retreat from a position
- draw down To lower (curtains, a portcullis, etc.).
- draw in To attract.
- draw into (especially of a train) To arrive at.
- draw off To remove by using a siphon.
- draw on To sketch or mark with pencil, crayon, etc., on a given s...
- draw out To make (something) last for more time than is necessary;...
- draw through To keep in mind the entire shape of an object as it is re...
- draw up To compose (a document), especially following a standard ...
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It’s as well, or he’d have had the drop on me with that buckshot gun of his before ever I could draw on him.
I drew your attention to it; but with the pressure of other events you had hardly the time to give it the consideration which would have enabled you to draw deductions from it.
Run to Torlonia, draw from him instantly four thousand piastres, and give them to the bearer.
His is a picture you never could draw,
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