What is draw?

More definitions of "draw":

• (noun): (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.
  Synonyms: draw play

• (verb): Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him.
  Synonyms: quarter, draw and quarter

• (verb): Steep; pass through a strainer.
  Example: "Draw pulp from the fruit"

• (noun): A playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack.
  Example: "He got a pair of kings in the draw"

• (verb): Pull back the sling of (a bow).
  Synonyms: pull back

• (verb): In baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher.
  Synonyms: get

• (verb): Cause to localize at one point.
  Example: "Draw blood and pus"

• (verb): Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover.
  Example: "Draw a weapon"
  Synonyms: pull, pull out, get out, take out

• (noun): A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer.
  Synonyms: hook, hooking

• (verb): Guide or pass over something.
  Synonyms: guide, run, pass

• (verb): Suck in or take (air).
  Example: "Draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
  Synonyms: puff, drag

• (verb): Write a legal document or paper.
  Example: "The deed was drawn in the lawyer's office"

• (noun): The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided.
  Example: "The game ended in a draw"
  Synonyms: standoff, tie

• (verb): Elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc..
  Example: "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans"; "The comedian drew a lot of laughter"

• (noun): A gully that is shallower than a ravine.

• (verb): Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes.
  Synonyms: attract, pull, pull in, draw in

• (noun): The act of drawing or hauling something.
  Synonyms: haul, haulage

• (verb): Flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching.
  Example: "Draw steel"

• (verb): Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source).
  Synonyms: withdraw, take out, draw off

• (verb): Cause to move along the ground by pulling.
  Example: "Draw a wagon"
  Synonyms: pull, force

• (verb): Select or take in from a given group or region.
  Example: "The participants in the experiment were drawn from a representative population"

• (verb): Engage in drawing.
  Example: "He spent the day drawing in the garden"

• (verb): Choose at random.
  Example: "Draw a card"
  Synonyms: cast

• (noun): An entertainer who attracts large audiences.
  Synonyms: drawing card, attraction, attractor, attracter

• (verb): Make, formulate, or derive in the mind.
  Example: "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"
  Synonyms: make

• (verb): Take in, also metaphorically.
  Synonyms: absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up

• (verb): Cause to flow.
  Example: "The nurse drew blood"

• (verb): Reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die.
  Example: "Draw wire"

• (verb): Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc..
  Synonyms: tie

• (verb): Remove the entrails of.
  Example: "Draw a chicken"
  Synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate

• (verb): Get or derive.
  Synonyms: reap

• (verb): Move or go steadily or gradually.
  Example: "The ship drew near the shore"

• (verb): Give a description of.
  Synonyms: describe, depict

• (verb): Make a mark or lines on a surface.
  Example: "Draw a line"
  Synonyms: trace, line, describe, delineate

• (verb): Allow a draft.
  Example: "This chimney draws very well"

• (verb): Take liquid out of a container or well.
  Synonyms: take out

• (noun): Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random.
  Example: "The luck of the draw"
  Synonyms: lot

• (verb): Bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition.
  Example: "She was drawn to despair"; "The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum"; "The session was drawn to a close"

• (noun): Poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer.
  Example: "He played only draw and stud"
  Synonyms: draw poker

• (verb): Move or pull so as to cover or uncover something.
  Example: "Draw the shades"; "draw the curtains"

• (verb): Thread on or as if on a string.
  Synonyms: string, thread

• (verb): Represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface.
  Example: "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse"

• (verb): Contract.
  Example: "The material drew after it was washed in hot water"

Famous quotes containing the word draw:

“I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman ... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.”
—Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)

“Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals, a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its forms merely,—but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)