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Drawing Off

Definition: Drawing Off

Drawing Off

Noun

1. Act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source: "the drawing of water from the well".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Drawing Off

Synonym: drawing (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Drawing Off

English words defined with "drawing off": derivation, drained ♦ Forcing machine ♦ Paragrele ♦ Separating funnel. (references)

Specialty definitions using "drawing off": SUPERVISOR, CELL-EFFICIENCY ♦ valve tower ♦ wine pump. (references)

Non-Fiction Usage: Drawing Off

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		However, the market had been sluggish since early 2000 and is not expected to rebound until late in the first half of 2001. Local computer makers are still drawing off inventories of memory chips stockpiled for an earlier anticipated shortfall that never materialized. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translation: Drawing Off

Language		Translations for "drawing off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		tunneli veden poisohjaukseen ja kaivoksen tutkimiseen (tunnel for drawing off water and exploring a mine). (various references)

French		démantèlement. (various references)

German		abzapfend. (various references)

Greek		σήραγγα αποστράγγισης και εξερεύνησης ορυχείου (tunnel for drawing off water and exploring a mine). (various references)

Manx		teaumey (bail, bail as small boat, bale, baling, decant, decantation, drain, draining, draw off, empty, empty of liquid, pour out, pouring, pump empty, pump out, run off, tax as strength; teeming, tax; teeming, tip, tip as lorry), tayrn sheear (draw off), striggey (draw, squirt, stripe). (various references)

Pig Latin		awingdray offay

Portuguese		galeria para drenagem e exploração da mina (tunnel for drawing off water and exploring a mine). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Drawing Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-f-f-g-i-n-o-r-w"
	-1 letter: affording.
	-2 letters: dwarfing.
	-3 letters: adoring, daffing, doffing, drawing, farding, fording, griffon, waffing, warding, wording.
	-4 letters: afford, daring, dawing, dowing, dragon, fading, faring, ganoid, goniff, gradin, inroad, inward, oaring, offing, onagri, onward, ordain, origan, rowing, wading, waring.
	-5 letters: adorn, adown, argon, aroid, awing, danio, dinar, dingo, diwan, doing, donga, draff, drain, drawn, drown, dwarf, fagin, fiord.
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Alternative Orthography: Drawing Off

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 61 77 69 6E 67 4F 66 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100001 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#97 &#119 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0061 0077 0069 006E 0067 004F 0066 0066

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

388467897580732497272

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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