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draw
- /dɹɑ/ cot caught merger
- /dɹɔ/
- [d͡ʒɹɔ] sometimes
- [d͡ʒɹɔɹ]
- /dɹɔː/ Northern England, UK
- /dɹoː/ Australia, British, New Zealand, Southern, Standard
- /dɾɔ/ Scotland
- /dɾɔː/ Wales
- /dɹo/ Philippines
Sounds like drawer (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɔː
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrógʰ-e-ti
Proto-Germanic *draganą
Proto-West Germanic *dragan
Old English dragan
Middle English drawen
English draw
The verb is derived from Middle English dragen, draghen, draue, drauen, drauhen, drawe, drawen, draȝe, draȝen, draȝhenn (“to drag, pull; to draw (out); to attract; to entice, lure; to lead; to make a drawing; to move, travel; etc.”), from Old English dragan (“to drag, draw”), from Proto-West Germanic *dragan (“to carry, haul”), from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to carry, draw, pull”); further etymology uncertain, often said to be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull, run”), but possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate root which is also the source of Latin trahō (“to pull, draw; etc.”). Doublet of drag and draught.
The noun is derived from Middle English drau, draue (“action of shooting with a bow”), from drauen, drawen (verb).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian drai, dreeg, dreege (“to carry; to wear”), West Frisian drage (“to carry”), Central Franconian draan, drage, droon (“to bear, carry”), Dutch dragen (“to carry; to wear; to transfer”), German tragen (“to bear, carry; to wear; to support”), Low German dregen (“to carry, take”), Luxembourgish droen (“to carry; to hold, support; to wear; to travel; to fruit”), Yiddish טראָגן (trogn, “to carry, to wear; to be pregnant”), Zealandic draege, draoge (“to carry”), Danish drage (“to draw”), Elfdalian drågå (“to drag, draw, pull”), Faroese and Icelandic draga (“to drag, draw, pull”), Gutnish dräga (“to pull”), Norwegian Bokmål dra, drage (“to drag, draw, pull”), Norwegian Nynorsk dra, draga, drage, drågå, dråggå (“to drag, pull; to leave”), Swedish dra, draga (“to draw, pull; to consume; to leave; to run; to steep”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌽 (dragan, “to carry, draw, pull”); also Old Irish droch (“wheel; circlet”), Latin tragō, trahō (“to drag, pull; to trail; to extract; to plunder; to draw out; to protract; to consider, ponder, weigh”), Greek τρέχω (trécho, “to run; to flee; to flow; to execute”), Russian дро́га (dróga, “rail or perch in a cart”), Armenian դուրգ (durg, “to potter’s wheel”).
verb draws · drawing · drew · drawn · draw
- To pull (someone or something) in a particular direction or manner. He drew a sheaf of papers from his bag.
- To move (a body part) in a particular direction. She settled in the window seat, drawing her leg up beneath her.
- Often followed by tight: to pull (something, such as a belt or string) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely. She took a deep breath and drew her corset-strings.
- To drag (something), especially along the ground. Seals […] throw their bodies forward, drawing their hinder-parts after them.
- To pull (blinds, a curtain, etc.) open or closed. She drew the curtains to let in the sunlight.
- To pull out (a bolt or latch) to unlock a door, gate, etc.; also, to push in (a bolt or latch) to lock a door, gate, etc.
- Chiefly followed by aside or to one side: to move (someone) away from a group of people in order to speak to them privately.
- To assume a specific attitude or position, either by pulling in or stretching out one's body or limbs. He drew himself to his full height and glowered at the interloper.
- To cause (a body part) to contract or shrink; also, to pull (the mouth, the face or features, etc.) out of shape from emotion, etc.; to distort. How long her face is drawn!
- To cause (someone or something) to go from one place to another, or from one condition to another.
- To construct (a canal, wall, etc.) from one point to another. the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee
- To strike (the cue ball) below the centre so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to move backwards on striking another ball.
- To cause (a bowl) to move in a curve to a certain place.
- Of a batter: to hit (a ball) from the off side to the leg side, especially with an inclined bat; also, to hit (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 play (a shot or a stone) that lands in the house (“circular target”).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left (or, for a left-handed player, toward the right, originally in an uncontrolled and now a controlled manner. […] the golfer thinks, “Ah! To draw the ball, I must be like the old pros and incorporate hand action through impact, twisting the clubhead to the left.” All you have to do to apply the spin needed to draw the ball left is to create a very small conflict between the clubface aim and the path the clu
- Of a vessel: to require (a certain depth of water) to float in. This ship draws ten feet of water.
- To drag (someone) by tying behind a horse or on a frame as a form of punishment or torture, or to bring to a place of execution. And if any manner of perſon attempted to moue the King to infringe any parte of thys ordynaunce, and that being knowne, for the firſt time, he ſhould be depriued of his goodes and poſſeſſions, and for the ſecond time, to be drawen thorough the Citie, and ſo put to execution as an arrant traytor.
- To kill someone as a form of punishment or torture by tearing apart (their body) by tying their limbs to horses which run in different directions; also, to tear (the limbs) from someone's body in this manner.
- To pull back (an arrow or bowstring) in preparation for shooting the arrow; also, to cause (a bow) to bend by pulling back the bowstring.
- To subject (a number) to an arithmetic operation.
- to haul in (a fishing net) which has been cast; also, to drag (a fishing net) alongside a boat.
- To hoist (a sail).
- To carry (a load) in a vehicle; to cart, to haul.
- To sew together (the edges of a tear); also, to mend (a hole or tear) in fabric.
- To use (a draught animal) to pull a plough or vehicle.
- To attribute (something) to a person or thing; to ascribe.
- To change (something) into another thing; to convert, to transform.
- To convert (a passage) from one literary style to another (for example, from prose to verse); or to translate (a text) from one language to another.
- To direct (one's heart, thoughts, etc.) in a certain way or towards someone or something.
- To give (courage, strength, etc.) to oneself; to summon up; also, to produce (evil, wickedness, etc.) in oneself.
- To give (words) a certain meaning, especially one which is distorted; to distort, to misrepresent.
- Followed by through: to pass (food) through a strainer.
- To mix (an ingredient) with another ingredient or ingredients to form a liquid or paste; to mix (ingredients) together to form a liquid or paste.
- To be (able to be) pulled in a particular direction or manner.
- Of blinds, a curtain, etc.: to be pulled open or closed.
- Of a bowl: to move in a curve to a certain place.
- To make a shot that lands in the house.
- Followed by an adverb, such as deep or shallow: of a vessel: to require a depth of water of a certain characteristic to float in. Greater hulks draw deep.
- Especially of a draught animal: to pull something, such as a plough or vehicle, along; to have force to move something by pulling. This horse draws well.
- Of a plough or vehicle: to be pulled along in a specified manner. The carriage draws easily.
- To become contracted; to shrink. water[…] will shrink or draw into less room
- To pull back an arrow or bowstring in preparation for shooting the arrow; also, to cause a bow to bend by pulling back the bowstring.
- To work together towards a common aim; to cooperate, to pull together; also, to have a good relationship with; to get on with.
- To be dragged along; to drag.
- To pull at something; to tug. […] No rogue e'er felt the halter [i.e., the hangman's noose] draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it.
- To induce (the attention, the eyes or mind, etc.) to be directed at or focused on something. From the moment she entered the room, all eyes were drawn to her.
- To attract or cause (someone) to come to a particular place or to take a particular course of action; also, to cause (someone) to turn away from a particular condition or course of action. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially gravity or magnetism. These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
- To attract or provoke (a particular reaction or response) from someone. The president’s comments have drawn strong criticism from right-wing media outlets.
- To cause (something) to occur as a consequence; to bring about. In a desperately tight opening set, the pace and accuracy of the Serbian's groundstrokes began to draw errors from the usually faultless Nadal and earned him the first break point of the day at 5-4.
- Followed by on or upon: to bring (disaster or misfortune) on oneself.
- To receive (a particular prison sentence).
- To take (air, smoke, etc.) into the lungs; to breathe in, to inhale. I drew a deep breath and wiped my brow.
- To cause (air) to be sucked into a duct, a room, etc.
- To drag or suck deeply on (a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement).
- To attract or provoke gunfire, either intentionally or unintentionally.
- To attract or influence a person or group of people; to be an inducement or enticement.
- To take a drink of a beverage, especially an alcoholic one; to swig.
- Of a duct, smoking implement, etc.: to allow air to be passed through it in order that combustion can occur. The chimney won’t draw properly if it’s clogged up with soot.
interjection drawe
- Pull back your bowstring in preparation to shoot.
noun draws · drawe
- That which draws: that which attracts e.g. a crowd. At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes.
- 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. This configuration offered the capacity for an exceptionally long draw – Manchu archers drew all the way back to the point of the right shoulder[…]
- 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.
- Draft: flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper. She looked in [to the stove] and a tight, dismayed gasp escaped her. She slammed the door shut and adjusted the draw with trembling fingers. For a moment—just a moment—she had seen her old friend Annabelle Frane in the coals.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding. The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.
- A bag of cannabis. So my friends and I would all chip in money to get a bag of weed or a draw.
- Cannabis. Selling draw to your mates but it's really Oxo cubes.
- 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. The player to your left immediately raises you the minimum by clicking the raise button. This action immediately suggests that he's on a draw
- The stall from which a horse begins the race.
