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Definition: Drawer |
DrawerNoun1. A boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out. 2. The person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else. 3. An artist skilled at drawing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drawer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | A person who writes a cheque or a bill asking a drawee to pay money to a payee. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The party who issues an order, draft, check or bill of exchange. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | Sliding box in a table, chest, bureau, etc. , that can be drawn out and then pushed back into place and into which things are stored. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Sliding box or receptacle opened by pulling out and closed by pushing in. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. Scot. A man or boy who takes ore or rock from the working face to the shaft, or terminus of the horse or haulage road. One who pushes trams or drives a horse underground b. Derb. A man who hoists ore or rock by means of a windlass, or otherwise, from a shaft c. Putter; trammer; wagoner; a person who moves tubs either manually orwith a machine. (references) |
Occupations | Draws warp yarn through loom parts to arrange warp for weaving specified pattern, following pattern chart: Reads pattern chart to determine information, such as type warp to be drawn, number of $T3harness frames,$T1 and type of reed required for pattern. Positions warp, harness frames, $T3drop wires,$T1 and reed on or in proximity of $T3drawing-in frame$T1 or loom to facilitate drawing-in process. Selects warp yarn according to lease, color, and sequence indicated by pattern chart. Pulls yarn through drop wires, heddle eyes, and reed dents, using $T3reed hook.$T1 May repair warp yarn on loom when numerous threads are broken [SMASH HAND (narrow fabrics; textile) 683.684-026]. May be handed warp yarn by coworker, during drawing-in process. May be designated according to type of loom on which drawing-in is performed, as Drawer-In, Dobby Loom (textile); Drawer-In, Jacquard Loom (textile); Drawer-In, Plain Loom (textile). (references) |
| Tends drawing frames that combine several strands of sliver into one strand, distributing weight uniformly, and arranging fibers in parallel order: Pulls cans of sliver to creeling position. Threads end of sliver through guides, stop-motion device, drawing rollers, condenser, and $T3coiler head$T1, and into revolving can, or attaches sliver to preceding end by overlapping and twisting ends with fingers. Presses button to start machines, and patrols machines to observe flow of sliver and signal lights indicating machine stoppage caused by sliver break. Repairs breaks in sliver by matting and rolling broken ends together between thumb and fingers. Replaces filled cans of sliver from coiler head with empty cans. Notifies repair personnel of machine malfunctions. Cleans rollers with airhose. May oil machine. (references) | |
| Removes burned clay products, such as sewer pipe, brick, refractories, and roofing tile, from tunnel kiln cars or periodic kilns, by hand or using hoist: Places pallet on drawing dock and lifts and stacks product on pallet. Examines products for defects, such as cracks, chips, and distortions. Grades and sorts products. Removes and places kiln furniture, such as tie brick, clamp, and holders, in box for reuse. Discards setting rings in waste bin. Cleans used kiln and door brick. May load clay products onto kiln cars prior to firing process. May stock clay products on pallets or place products in carton for shipment. (references) | |
Personal Care & Hotels | Box-like container(with a handle or handles)which slides in and out of a piece of furniture. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DrawerSynonym: draftsman (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ambush | Noun: camouflage; mimicry; hiding place; secret place, secret drawer; recess, hold, holes and corners; closet, crypt, adytum, abditory, oubliette. |
Artist | Noun: artist; painter, limner, drawer, sketcher, designer, engraver; master, old master; draftsman, draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist. |
Money | Drawer, drawee; obligor, obligee; moneyer, coiner. |
Receptacle | Closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drawer |
| English words defined with "drawer": Bullist ♦ cover ♦ limner, lock ♦ portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer ♦ Redraw ♦ sachet, Sneck drawer ♦ Till alarm, To draw lots. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drawer": acceptance for honour, acceptance supra protest, ASSEMBLY INSPECTOR ♦ CASHIER, TUBE ROOM, CASHIER-CHECKER, CONTACT PRINTER, PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS ♦ DASH, DEVIL DRAWER, DRAWER UPFITTER, DRAWER WAXER, drawer-hardware worker ♦ exposure machine operator ♦ file-drawer finisher, FURNITURE ASSEMBLER ♦ general teller ♦ HARDWARE ASSEMBLER, holder in due course ♦ marked check ♦ nondelivery area ♦ parts assembler, photo printer, photoresist printer, prop retriever, Pun and Pickpocket ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ timber puller ♦ upfitter. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "drawer": Till. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You should try my sock drawer. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) Just go to the morgue and open any drawer. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) Certainly I looked in the top drawer. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) You've probably put it away in a drawer and never even looked at it. One day you give it away to the butler or someone, and when you see it on him, you realize it's the one tie in the world for you, and somebody else has got it (Wedding Rehearsal; writing credit: Lajos Biró; George Grossmith) It's a well-known principle that if you keep the flint in one drawer and the steel in the other, you'll never strike much of a fire (The Music Man; writing credit: Meredith Willson; Franklin Lacey) | |
Lyrics | And in the drawer where he find his underwear (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat) | |
Clever | A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. (references; author: unknown) A wife is a person who can look in the top drawer of a dresser and find a man's handkerchief that isn't there. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Junk Drawer (2002) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Country Doctor, or Farrier turned Tooth Drawer. / [James Wilson]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The Blacksmith turned Tooth Drawer. / Printed for & Sold by Bowles & Carver. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The Town Tooth Drawer. / Printed by W. Davison, Alnwick. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Drawer" by Nick Robinson Commentary: "A few drawers in a counter in my chemistry classroom." | "The Drawer" by T. Al Nakib Commentary: "A frontal view of a metal drawer and handle. Contact me if you would like to use this photo. In some cases, larger resolutions are available. Please ask for details." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Pulling open a file cabinet drawer. | | Silverware clinking together in a drawer. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Lord Byron | I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Where the period within which a negotiable instrument should have been presented for acceptance or for payment, or within which notice of non-acceptance or non-payment should have been given to the drawer or indorser, or within which the instrument should have been protested, has elapsed during the war, and the party who should have presented or protested the instrument or have given notice of non-acceptance or non-payment has failed to do so during the war, a period of not less than three months from the coming into force of the present Treaty shall be allowed within which presentation, notice of non-acceptance or nonpayment or protest may be made. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Then she fumbled in a drawer where there were some pennies, pepper, and garlic |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He dropped them in the drawer and slammed the cash register |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Drawer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drawer" is used about 955 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 955 | 7,609 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "drawer": bottom drawer ♦ desk drawer ♦ drawer of water ♦ filing drawer ♦ nail drawer ♦ prop drawer ♦ refer to drawer ♦ sneck drawer ♦ top drawer ♦ warp drawer ♦ water drawer. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "drawer": drawer-liners, drawer-unit. | |
Ending with "drawer": top-drawer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
drawer pull | 735 | mmf cash drawer | 26 |
cash drawer | 287 | antique drawer pull | 26 |
drawer slide | 184 | drawer glide | 25 |
pantie drawer | 169 | 2 drawer file cabinet | 24 |
drawer knob | 149 | kitchen drawer organizer | 23 |
drawer organizer | 71 | drawer guide | 22 |
drawer | 62 | drawer divider | 21 |
keyboard drawer | 57 | drawer boy | 20 |
drawer liner | 56 | drawer lock | 20 |
top drawer | 54 | indiana cash drawer | 19 |
drawer hardware | 52 | ceramic drawer pull | 17 |
drawer handle | 50 | glass drawer knob | 16 |
glass drawer pull | 39 | decorative drawer pull | 15 |
drawer pull knob | 35 | rack mount keyboard drawer | 15 |
drawer chest | 35 | 4 drawer file cabinet | 15 |
drawer dishwasher | 32 | child drawer knob | 15 |
kid drawer pull | 29 | apg cash drawer | 14 |
child drawer pull | 28 | kitchen drawer pull | 14 |
scented drawer liner | 27 | brass drawer pull | 14 |
drawer furniture top | 26 | dresser drawer pull | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "drawer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | laai (burden, load). (various references) | |
Albanian | desinjator (draftsman, draughtsman), tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, attractive, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome), skicograf (draftsman, draughtsman), sirtar (file, pigeonhole, tray), lëshues i çekut. (various references) | |
Arabic | سروال للرجل, سروال تحتاني للمرأة, جارور, الساحب, رسام (tracer), درج جارور. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рисувач, чертожник (drafter, draftsman, draughtsman), чекмедже, лице което тегли пари по чек, бюфетчик. (various references) | |
Catalan | calaix. (various references) | |
Chinese | 抽屜 , 抽屉 (drawers), 屜 (penis, tier, tray). (various references) | |
Czech | zásuvka (socket), šuplík. (various references) | |
Danish | skuffe (disappoint, set straight). (various references) | |
Dutch | schuiflade (deal tray), lade (lathe, lay, sley), la (behen tree, behn tree, ben tree, bito, bito tree, desert date, feijoa, horseradish tree, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Laos, pineapple guava, wax palm). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tirkesto. (various references) | |
Farsi | نقاش (Painter), کشو (Slide, Till), ساقی (Bung), زیرشلواری (Pants, Underdrawers, Underpants), طراح (Designer, Draftsman, Sketcher, Tracer), برات کش . (various references) | |
Finnish | laatikko (box, case, casserole, chest, crate). (various references) | |
French | tiroir (draw), tireur, dessinateur (draftsman, draughtsman). (various references) | |
Frisian | laden. (various references) | |
German | Schublade, Zeichner (artist, designer, draftsman, draftsmen, draughtsman, drawers, subscriber), schubfach, Trassant, Schubkasten, lade (ark, chest), Aussteller (exhibitor, issuer, issuers, maker). (various references) | |
Greek | συρτάρι (soufie, Southwest European nase). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מושך (attractive, inviting, taking, tempting), מגרה (case, irritating, itchy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rajzoló (bows, designer, drawing), kibocsátó (emissive, emitter, floater, starter), szövegező (drawer up), szállítómunkás, lefejtő, intézményező, húzóeszköz, húzó (puller, pulling, tensility), fogalmazó (drafter, draftsman, draftsmen, draughtsman, drawer up), fiók (case), előrajzoló (tracer), csillés (foal, trammer), csapos (barman, bartender), csapoló, borfiú (tapster). (various references) | |
Indonesian | laci, ahli gambar. (various references) | |
Italian | cassetto (container), disegnatore (designer, draftsman, draughtsman, sketcher). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ドレス店 (a patient's call button in a hospital, Don, Don Juan, donkey, don't mind, don't-know group, draw, draw ball, drawing, drawn game, drawnwork, dress store, dresser, dressing, dressing paper, dressing room, dressmaker, dressy, drone, drop, drop goal, drop handle, drop-kick, dropout, dungarees, dwarf, game under lights, knife, knife ridge, knight, naive, nervous, Niagara, nice, nice guy, nice middle, nice shot, Nigeria, night, night cream, night game, night hospital, night latch, night show, night spot, night table, nightcap, nightclub, nightdress, nightgown, nightingale, nightmare, nightwear, Nike Hercules, Nile, Nile green, nurse, nurse bank, nurse call, nurse station, nursery, nursery tale, nylon latch, sunday, the firing of guns), 抽斗 (drawing out), 抽出し , 引き出し (drawing out), 引き出し (drawing out), 引出し (drawing out). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ドロア , ひきだし (drawing out). (various references) | |
Korean | 서랍 (drawers). (various references) | |
Manx | tayrneyder (puller, tractor, worm), tayrnag, linneyder (draughtsman, liner), kishteig hayrn. (various references) | |
Norwegian | skuff. (various references) | |
Papiamen | lachi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awerdray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gaveta (cassette, locker), sacador (payee), desenhador (tracer). (various references) | |
Romanian | desenator (designer, draftsman, sketcher), trãgãtor (gunner, shooter, shot, tirailleur), sertar (pigeon-hole), grafician (illustrator, sketcher), cutie (box, cabinet, case, casket, cover, package, pillbox, socket). (various references) | |
Russian | составитель (compiler), рисовальщик (draftsman, draughtsman), чертежник (designer, draftsman, draughtsman), трассант;секция;ящик, выдвижной ящик, буфетчик (barman, bartender, pantryman, tapster). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fioka, crtač (draftsman, draughtsman). (various references) | |
Spanish | cajón (bin, case, coffin, crate, locker, take, till, tray), gaveta. (various references) | |
Sranan | la. (various references) | |
Swedish | låda (box, case, chest, tray), byrålåda. (various references) | |
Turkish | keşideci (drawee, giver), işlemci (processor), göz (blinker, cell, compartment, Cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cuddy, eye, eyehole, glim, ocular, ophthalmic, optic, optical, opto-, orb, orbit, orbital, peeper, sight), çekmeceli dolap (bureau, chest of drawers, commode), çekmece (pigeonhole, pigeon-hole), çeken kimse (sufferer). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зeker (sliding box). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шухляда (desk, shuttle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người kéo (puller), bia ở thùng ra. (various references) | |
Zulu | ilidilowa, idilowa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drawer": drawerful, drawerfuls, drawers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "drawer": redrawer, wiredrawer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "drawer": redrawers, underdrawers, wiredrawers. (additional references) | |
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"Drawer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dawa, Dharwar, Diawara, Djawa, draew, draker, draner, drawar, drawe, drawed, drawel, drawen, drawerful, drawes, drawgear, Drawne, drawr, drawrer, Drewe, Drewes, drowe, drowr. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drawer" (pronounced drô"r) |
| 3 | -r ô" r | roar. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: redraw, reward, warder, warred. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-r-r-w" | |
-1 letter: darer, dewar, drear, rared, rawer, wader, wared. | |
-2 letters: awed, dare, dear, draw, drew, rare, read, rear, wade, ward, ware, wear. | |
-3 letters: are, awe, daw, dew, ear, era, err, rad, raw, red, wad, wae, war, wed. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ar, aw, de, ed, er, re, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: arrowed, awarder, drawers, drawler, dwarfer, redrawn, redraws, redware, rewards, warders. | |
+2 letters: awarders, drawbore, drawlers, drawlier, farrowed, hardware, hardwire, harrowed, marrowed, narrowed, overdraw, rearward, redrawer, redwares, rereward, rewarded, rewarder, rewarmed, tawdrier, wanderer, wardenry, wardress, wardrobe, wiredraw. | |
+3 letters: afterward, afterword, arrowhead, awkwarder, dewaterer, drawbores, drawerful, earthward, forwarded, forwarder, hardwares, hardwired, hardwires, outwarred, overdrawn, overdraws, prewarmed, prewarned, rearwards, redrawers, redrawing, rerewards, rewarders, rewarding, rewrapped, riverward, shoreward, sternward, swearword, underwear, wanderers, wardrobes, warranted, waterbird, wiredrawn, wiredraws. | |
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