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Definition: Drawing Board |
Drawing BoardNoun1. A smooth board on which paper is placed for making drawings. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Drawing BoardSynonym: drafting board (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Also known as a drafting table, or draughting table.
The Drawing table is an early form of drawing board which was usually found in a gentleman's private library or study in the pre-industrial era. It was used for drawing, but also for reading oversized books.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drawing board."
Crosswords: Drawing Board |
| English words defined with "drawing board": drawing pin ♦ plane table, pushpin ♦ T square, thumbtack. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drawing board": CARTOON DESIGNER ♦ Hunt visual field separator. (references) |
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Books | |
High Tech |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The artist at his drawing board. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | The minister also announced that the HDB's upgrading program will be further accelerated next year, well beyond the 32 projects on the drawing board for this year. This should help increase the standard of living of the residents. (references) | |
Economic History | Uae | A departure-only runway and master plan for future expansion are also on the drawing board. (references) |
Uae | It has been reported that 45 new luxury hotel properties in the UAE are on the drawing board for the next five years. (references) | |
Seychelles | Officials hope that new hotels on the drawing board and expanded airline service to the island will help offset the possibility of reduced global travel in the current environment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "drawing board": back to the drawing board. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drawing board | 91 |
battle tech drawing board | 6 |
magnetic drawing board | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "drawing board"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dërrasë vizatimi, fazë përgatitore (preparative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسند الرسام, لوحة الرسم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чертожна дъска, начален стадий на работа. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rýsovací prkno. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | planche dessin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zeichenbrett (drawing table). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στα σκαριά (afoot, in the pipeline, on the drawing board). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לוח שרטוט. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rajztábla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mementahkan (do all over again, go back to the drawing board). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "板 (drafting board). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | がば" (drafting board). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | claare linneeaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awingdray oardbay planşetã de desen (draughtboard). (various references) чертежная доска (drawing-board). (various references) tabla za crtanje (draughtboard). (various references) tablero de dibujar. (various references) ritbräde (drawing-board). (various references) resim tahtası, plançete (plane table), çizim masası (drafting board, sliding table). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-g-i-n-o-r-r-w" | |
-4 letters: abrading, arrowing, awarding, boarding, bradding, garboard. | |
-5 letters: aboding, adoring, airward, android, arraign, bandaid, bandora, barding, bargain, barring, brigand, dadoing, drawbar, drawing, grandad, inboard, radding, rainbow, roaring, rodding, wadding, warding, warring, windbag, wording. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 61 77 69 6E 67 42 6F 61 72 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100001 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r a w i n g   B o a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0061 0077 0069 006E 0067 0042 006F 0061 0072 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3884678975807323681678470 |
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