Drawing

Definition: Drawing

Drawing

Noun

1. An illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine; "it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7".

2. Picture produced by representing forms or objects on a surface by means of lines; "he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures".

3. The creation of artistic drawings; "he learned drawing from his father".

4. Players buy chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots.

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

6. The act of moving a load by drawing or pulling.

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

Date "drawing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Chemical Industry

Finance

Industry

Metallurgy

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Drawing

Assemblage

Noun: {opp. } assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement; team; concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione; (social gathering); assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote; conclave; (council); posse, posse comitatus; Noah's ark.

Concealment

Cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper.

Futurity

Approach of time advent, time drawing on, womb of time; destiny; eventuality.

Intention

Drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf.

Painting

Picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas; oil painting; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil; drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study.

Noun: painting; depicting; drawing; Verb: design; perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy; chiaroscuro; (light) composition; treatment.

Plan

Drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation).

Prediction

Coscinomancy; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy; by precious stones, Lithomancy; by pebbles, Pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy; by mirrors, Catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy; by dreams, Oneiromancy; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy; by finger rings, Dactylomancy; by numbers, Arithmancy; by drawing lots, Sortilege; by passages in books, Stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy.

Receptacle

Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.

Recession

Noun: attraction, attractiveness; attractivity; drawing to, pulling towards, adduction.

Regression

Noun: traction; drawing; Verb: draught, pull, haul; rake; "a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together"; towage, haulage.

Adjective: drawing; Verb: tractile, tractive.

Representation

Copy; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure, scheme.

Sharpness

Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine.

Crosswords: Drawing

He is drawing all evil to him. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

You know, it's a pity I didn't keep that drawing. It'll be worth a lot more by morning (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

You assured me this drawing was rigged so we'd be teammates (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean)

She did it knowing she'd be drawing a death sentence down on her neck (The Jackal; writing credit: Chuck Pfarrer)

And nurturing and consummately there for me I kept drawing you in and pushing (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Ain't nobody drawing wine from this blood (HUMAN TOUCH; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

There's a fine line drawing my senses together, (Union of the Snake; performing artist: Duran Duran)

The time is drawing near (Babe; performing artist: Styx; writing credit: Dennis DeYoung)

The trees are drawing me near, (The Afternoon: Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?); performing artist: The Moody Blues)

Drawing Roomers (1936)

The Enchanted Drawing (1900)

John Wyre: Drawing on Sound (1991)

Drawing on My Mind (1985)

A Personal Drawing of a French Mercenary (1975)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Copper Nails, Tacks, Drawing Pins, Staples, Screws, Bolts, Nuts, Screw Hooks, Rivets, and Washers Excluding Staples in Strips for Office Use: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Helmut Jacoby: Master of Architectural Drawing (reference)

• Hooked on Drawing!: Illustrated Lessons & Exercises for Grades 4 and Up (reference)

• Dark Tower Hardcover Gift Collection: The Gunslinger, The Drawing of The Three, The Waste Lands (reference)

• The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God (reference)

• Sacred Romance Workbook and Journal: Your Personal Guide for Drawing Closer to the Heart of God (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Military Drawing Locator Index - Microfilm (reference)

• Newsletter Of The Print And Drawing Council Of Canada (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Drawing Blood (reference)

• Drawing Flies (reference)

• Elmo's World - Singing, Drawing & More (reference)

• Drawing People (Drawing Lessons for Beginners, vol.3) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Christmas Now Is Drawing Near: English Folk Carols (reference)

• Drawing Black Lines (reference)

• Feel Something Drawing Me On (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Calcomp 34360 Drawing Board Iii 24X36 Tablet PC/IBM .010 Acc W/ Cursor (reference)

• Crayola Kids PC Drawing Tablet (reference)

• Drawing Disoveries & Flipper (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Line drawing (lateral view) showing detail of pelvic area (female). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A pen and ink drawing showing a woman getting a mammogam and assisted by a radiology technician. Credit: Al Louang (artist).

This schematic drawing identifies the structures located at one end of the T. pallidum bacterium. A spirochete, this bacterium is responsible for the sexually transmitted disease, syphilis. Credit: CDC.

"Velocity Field for Fluid Flow Thru a Tube" by Tom Tredon. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A (the curvature), B (the inner diameter), or C (the speed of the fluid flow). Inspired by a drawing on page 3 of Harry Schey's "Div, Grad, Curl, and All That", 2nd edition. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info.

Tiltrotor Heliport - Conceptual Drawing. Credit: NASA.

Drawing of a NERVA Engine. Credit: NASA.

The Point Conception Lighthouse Drawing by Major Hartman Bache, inspectof of the 12th Lighthouse District Hartman Bache was the uncle of Alexander D. Bache, 2nd supt. of the Coast Survey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sketch of John Ross Key by James McNeill Whistler Sketched in the Coast Survey office in 1854 Key was a nephew of Francis Scott Key He was a draughtsman in the office at the time of the drawing. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Drawing a water sample from Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) rosette water sample bottles. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A view of tuna agitating the surface as the net is drawing closed. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The nourishment and education of their children is a charge so incumbent on parents for their children's good, that nothing can absolve them from taking care of it: and though the power of commanding and chastising them go along with it, yet God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour; the excess is seldom on the severe side, the strong byass of nature drawing the other way. (Second Treatise of Government)

If within five years after the coming into force of the present Treaty a new convention regulating international radio-telegraphic communications should have been concluded to take the place of the Convention of July 5, 1912, this new convention shall bind Germany, even if Germany should refuse either to take part in drawing up the convention, or to subscribe thereto. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But as she wanted to be drawing, the declaration must wait a little longer

It may be that in the most shadowy portion of his mind, he was drawing a comparison between these changing horizons and human existence

But his long spell of leisure and liberty was drawing to its end.

The turtle entered a dust road and jerked itself along, drawing a wavy shallow trench in the dust with its shell

This he conveyed eight inches up the anus, and drawing in the wind, he affirmed he could make the guts as lank as a dried bladder

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Encourage any type of communication, whether it is speech, gesture, pointing, or drawing. (references)

Adapted from a drawing provided by Dr. Sylvia Paz Díaz Camacho, Universidade Autónoma de Sinaloa, Mexico. (references)

Asthma makes the sides of the airways in your lungs inflamed or swollen all the time. See the drawing below. (references)

Business

The PCD is currently drawing up the regulation for auditing CEMs and thus the emissions level from industries. (references)

A foreign company should seek competent local legal counsel in drawing up either an agency or distribution agreement. (references)

It is advisable for a foreign company to seek competent local legal counsel in drawing up a representation agreement. (references)

Children

Ghana

During that time, she helps with the upkeep of the shrine, which may include working on the shrine's farm, drawing water, and performing other agricultural or household labor. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

It provided for punishments for activities such as organizing a banned religious group, persuading others to join such a group, and drawing minors into a religious organization without the permission of their parents. (references)

Algeria

Broad provisions in the new law provide for prison terms of between 2 and 24 months and fines ranging from $129 (10,000 dinars) to $6,494 (500,000 dinars) for "any person who insults a judge, a civil servant, or one of the representatives of public order with a word, a gesture, a threat, a piece of correspondence, a piece of writing or a drawing while they are exercising their profession, and does so with the intention of offending their honor, their authority, or the respect required of their profession." The law, as amended, provides the same punishments for anyone who "commits insult, contempt or defamation" directed at "Parliament or one of its chambers, tribunals, courts of justice, the People's National Army, or any other authority of public order." No journalist had been charged under the new law by year's end; however, the Government brought defamation cases against journalists during the year under the old provisions of the Penal Code. (references)

Economic History

Uae

A departure-only runway and master plan for future expansion are also on the drawing board. (references)

Luxembourg

The DP is a center party, drawing support from the professions, merchants, and urban middle class. (references)

Korea

U.S. companies should seek local expert legal counsel when drawing up any type of contract with a Korean entity. (references)

Human Rights

Switzerland

He is accused of drawing up lists of Tutsis, which the Hutu-dominated military used to identify their victims. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

During the year, BICE began teaching juvenile prisoners trades, such as sewing, carpentry, gardening, house painting, and drawing, in five workshops. (references)

United Kingdom

A similar provision is in effect in Northern Ireland, but the 1999 Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order prohibits the drawing of an inference from silence when a suspect is questioned before being permitted access to an attorney. (references)

Political Economy

ROMANIA

These drafts include the law for changing and completing Patent Law (64/1991) and the draft law for changing and completing Industrial Drawing and Model Protection (129/1992). (references)

Ireland

Drawing support from all sectors of Irish society, Fianna Fail is populist in policy, and in recent years has moved from a policy of economic nationalism to one of full Irish integration into the global economy. (references)

EGYPT

However, in the absence of a clear government statement on its monetary policy or willingness of the Central Bank to draw further on reserves to supply the banking system, the depreciation did not have the intended effect of drawing more dollars into the banking system. (references)

Trade

Saudi Arabia

Although officially linked to the IMF's Special Drawing Rights, Saudi Arabia in practice pegs its currency, the riyal, to the U.S. dollar. (references)

Burma

The Burmese currency, the kyat, is not convertible and is artificially pegged to the IMF's Special Drawing Right (SDR). This overvalues the currency by some 100 times. (references)

Qatar

Also controlled by the QCB, the Qatari Riyal has been officially fixed to the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) since 1979 at the rate of QR 4,7619 each unit of SDR, with a margin of plus or minus 7.25 percent. (references)

Women

Algeria

Women's rights groups have experienced difficulty in drawing attention to spousal abuse as an important social problem, largely due to societal attitudes. (references)

Worker Rights

India

The Supreme Court upheld the verdict drawing attention to the difference between a complete closedown of all activities (bandh) and a general strike (hartal). (references)

Qatar

Local courts handle disputes between workers and employers; however, foreign workers tend to avoid drawing attention to their problems with their employers for fear of being repatriated at the request of their employer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Drawing near

Drawing near to bitterness

Expressions using "drawing": A drawing of tea ♦ asset consisting of special drawing rights ♦ back to the drawing board ♦ be drawing to a close ♦ be drawing to an end ♦ be good at drawing ♦ book form drawing ♦ case of drawing instruments ♦ Chalk drawing ♦ character drawing ♦ charcoal drawing ♦ contrasted drawing ♦ counterpart of the net allocations of special drawing rights ♦ Crayon drawing ♦ cutaway drawing ♦ Detail drawing ♦ drawing a bow at venture ♦ drawing account ♦ drawing block ♦ drawing board ♦ drawing bow ♦ drawing by lot ♦ drawing card ♦ Drawing chalk ♦ drawing chamber(Fo) ♦ drawing close ♦ drawing compass ♦ drawing compasses ♦ drawing equipment ♦ drawing eXchange Format ♦ drawing in ♦ drawing ink ♦ drawing key ♦ drawing kiln(PPG) ♦ Drawing knife ♦ drawing lines ♦ drawing list ♦ drawing lots ♦ drawing near ♦ drawing of lot ♦ drawing of lots ♦ drawing of water ♦ drawing off ♦ drawing office ♦ drawing or picture ♦ drawing organisation message ♦ drawing organization message ♦ drawing out ♦ Drawing paper ♦ Drawing pen ♦ drawing pencil ♦ drawing pin ♦ drawing pit ♦ drawing power ♦ drawing punch ♦ drawing right ♦ drawing rights ♦ drawing room ♦ drawing room car ♦ drawing room comedy ♦ drawing set ♦ drawing shave ♦ Drawing slate ♦ drawing string ♦ drawing table ♦ drawing to ♦ drawing up ♦ drawing up in an echelon ♦ drawing water ♦ fair drawing ♦ freehand drawing ♦ knife drawing ♦ line drawing ♦ linear drawing ♦ lines drawing ♦ map drawing ♦ master drawing ♦ mechanical drawing ♦ object drawing ♦ out of drawing ♦ outline drawing ♦ pastel drawing ♦ pencil drawing ♦ perspective drawing ♦ rough drawing ♦ scale drawing ♦ schematic drawing ♦ sepia drawing ♦ sneck drawing ♦ special drawing rights ♦ specification control drawing ♦ standard drawing format ♦ technical drawing ♦ the days are drawing out ♦ to recenter a drawing ♦ to rub out a drawing ♦ wash drawing ♦ working drawing. Additional references.

Beginning with "drawing": drawing-board, drawing-boards, drawing-book, drawing-card, drawing-in, drawing-in, drawing-knife, drawing-machine, drawing-off, drawing-offices, drawing-pad, drawing-paper, drawing-pin, drawing-pinned, drawing-pins, Drawing-room, drawing-room', Drawing-room car, drawing-rooms, drawing-scale, drawing-together, drawing-up.

Ending with "drawing": character-drawing, re-drawing.

Containing "drawing": ever-drawing-near.

Albanian

vizatim (depiction, description, design, diagram, draftsmanship, draughtsmanship, tracery), tërheqje (affinity, allurement, appeal, appetence, appetency, attraction, attractiveness, crush, draw, enchantment, enticement, haul, jerk, lure, magnetization, pull, pullback, recall, recession, recoil, retirement, retraction, retreat, revocation, strain, stretch, tow, traction, tug, withdrawal), të vizatuarit, pikturë (painting, picture), nxjerrje (digging, discharge, eduction, ejection, elicitation, emission, excretion, extraction, extrusion, heave, inference, leakage, outage, output, promulgation, recovery, runout, spew, stripping, superannuation). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبلغ يسحب, ‏لوحة (doorplate, nameplate, painting, panel, picture, plaque, plate, portrait, tablet), ‏تصميم (design, designing, format, idea, intention, layout, mock up, modelling, planning, purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, styling, will), ‏تصوير (depiction, description, figuration, illustration, makings, photograph, photography, picturing, portrayal, representation, reproduction), ‏سحب (call, dash, disengage, draft, drag, dragging, draught, draw, drawing out, hang fire, haul, heave, lug, pull, recall, recant, retreat, revoke, revulsion, run, strain, take back, take off, tow, traction, trail, train, tug, withdraw, withdrawal), ‏التخطيط (adumbration, projection, strategy), ‏رسم تصوير (delimitation, designing, painting, picture, sketch, tracing), ‏رسم (block, charge, daub, depict, depiction, describe, description, design, draft, draught, draw, etch, etching, exhibit, figure to oneself, formalize, image, impost, lay, lay out, limn, line, mark out, pattern, pencil, picture, plotter, portray, portrayal, protract, scrawl, sketch, tableau, trace, trace over, weave), ‏شد (chock, enthral, enthrall, harness, lace, pull, strain, tension, thrill, tighten, twitch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

рисуване (depiction, draughtsmanship, painting, portrayal), рисунък, рисунка (depiction, draft, picture, tracery), чертеж (design, diagram, draft, draught, plan), чертане (description, drafting, graphics, protraction, tracing), теглене (draft, drag, draught, draw, haul, haulage, lug, pull, tow, towage, towing, traction, tug), тираж (circulation, draw, edition, issue), машинно чертане, закаляване на метал, изтегляне (draw, elongation, evacuation, exhaustion, extension, traction, withdrawal), изтеглена сума, дърпане (drag, haul, heave, lug, pull, tug). (various references)

Chinese 

繪畫 (painting), 畫兒 (painting, picture), 圖畫 (picture), 圖 (chart, diagram, -ization, picture, to ... -ize, to change into, to make into, to plan, to transform), 併條 , 图画. (various references)

Czech

výkres (design, tracing), tah (bender, draught, draw, feature, haul, heave, move, stroke, thrust), rýsování, obraz (canvas, image, painting, picture, piece, presentment, reflex, representation, scene, view), návrh (design, draft, minute, motion, offer, proposal, suggestion), nákres (design, layout, rough cast, roughcast), kreslení (art), kresba (design, painting, picture). (various references)

Danish

tegning (design). (various references)

Dutch

tekening (design), werkje (design), schets (design, outline, sketch). (various references)

Esperanto

desegno (design), desegnaĵo (design). (various references)

Finnish

piirustus (design, sketch), piirros (design, diagram, sketch). (various references)

French

dessin (drafting, draught), tirage (draught, drawing out), étirage (drawing out). (various references)

German

Zeichnung (depiction, design, draft, drawn, line drawing, marking, markings, painting, patterning, picture, plan, portrayal, subscription), ziehung (draw, drawing of lots), Verlosung (draw, drawing lots, lottery, raffle, raffling). (various references)

Greek 

σχέδιο (concept, course of action, design, designing, draff, layout, pattern, plan, plat, project, prospectus, scheme), σχεδιάγραμμα (design, outline, scheme, sketch), τράβηγμα (draught, haul, pull, traction, tug, twitch, withdrawal, withdrawament, yank). (various references)

Hebrew 

משך (continuity, duration, length, prolongation, run, span, stretch, term), שאיבה (absorption, deriving, drawing of water, pumping, suckling), שרטוט (plan, schema, sketch, stripe), הגררות (dragging, towing, tugging), גרר (carriage, drag, dragging), ציור (design, figure, painting, picture, portrayal), סרטוט (draft, outline, sketch). (various references)

Hungarian

rajzolás (tracing), rajz (fantasy, scheme, tracing), kép (countenance, effigy, illustration, image, jowl, latent image, painting, photograph, picture, scene, sketch, snap, snapshot). (various references)

Indonesian

tarikan (attraction, pulling), penarikan (draught), lukisan (painting), gambar (effigy, figure, illustration, picture). (various references)

Italian

disegno (aim, design, outline, pattern, picture, plan, scheme, sketch, tracery), estrazione (abstraction, draw, extraction, lottery, mining, raffle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

抽選 (lottery, raffle), 図法 (draftsmanship), 図画 , 図画　, 図面 (blueprint, diagram, plans), 作図 (construction), 揮毫 (painting, writing), 描画 (painting), 図 (figure, illustration, picture), 抽籤 (lottery, raffle), 製図 (cartography, draughtsmanship, mapmaking, sketching), 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, drawer, 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), 福引 (lottery, tombola), 福引き (lottery, tombola), 福引き　 (lottery, tombola), 翰墨 (brush and ink, writing), 画学 , 絵 (painting, picture, sketch), 絵図 (illustration), 抽せん (lottery, raffle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ずが, ずほう (draftsmanship), ずめん (blueprint, diagram, plans), ず (at, cord, figure, illustration, in, on, picture, ridge, strap, tail, thong), ががく (old Japanese court music), ドローイング , きごう (code, painting, symbol, writing), びょうが (ill in bed, painting), さくず (construction), ふくびき (lottery, tombola), せいず (cartography, draughtsmanship, mapmaking, sketching, star map), かんぼく (brush and ink, shrub, writing), ちゅうせん (lottery, raffle), えず (illustration), え (bay, depending on, -fold, grip, handle, inlet, painting, picture, -ply, sketch, type of beefsteak plant, understanding). (various references)

Korean 

그림 (picture, Picturing). (various references)

Manx

tayrn (brew of tea; designing, brew; designing, carry, carrying, cart; get out; draw, deracinate, describe; attract, draft, drag, draw along, haul, haulage, heave, hitch, induce; tap, induce; tap as barrel, lure, pluck, pull, pulling, suction, tow, towing, trace, tracing; quartering, trawl, tug, tugging, yank), linneeaght (line drawing, lineage), jallooaght (art), jalloo (altarpiece, bust, carving, effigy, figure, guy, icon, idol, image, joss, painting, picture, sculpture, statue), caslys (appearance, design, elevation, illustration, imitation, painting, picture, shape). (various references)

Norwegian

tegning (design). (various references)

Papiamen

diseño (design). (various references)

Pig Latin

awingdray.(various references)

Portuguese

desenho (design, designing, draft, draftsmanship, draughtsmanship, illustration, lithograph, litho-print, picture, plan, print, scale, scheme, tracing), tiragem (circulation, clearing, edition, impression), extração (abstraction, avulsion, evulsion, extraction, winning). (various references)

Romanian

desenare (drain), desen (depiction, design, designing, draft, draught, free hand, pad, pattern, sketch), tragere (draught, draw, gunnery, gunning, pluck, pull, running, shooting, tug), tablou (aspect, canvas, engraving, figure, image, lookout, painting, panel, picture, scene, schedule, slab, table, tableau), schiţã (adumbration, contour, delineation, design, draft, draught, line, outline, plan, plot, shorter, sketch, sketching), planşã (sketch), extragere (abstraction, draw, evulsion, extraction), extracţie (draw, extraction). (various references)

Russian 

рисунок (depiction, design, pattern), рисование (portrayal), рисовальный (crayon), черчение (draftsmanship, draughtsmanship), чертеж (design, draft, draught, plan, plot, scheme), графика (graphic arts), вытягивание (draw, elongation, extension, extrusion, stretch), вытаскивание (draw, drawing out), волочение (drag, dragging), натягивание, набросок (draft, jotting, minute, outline, skeleton, sketch), жеребьевка (draw, sortition, the toss of the coin, toss up, tossup), протаскивание. (various references)

Scottish

tarruing (attract; v.n. drawing, draw, pull, pulling, ship's). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skica (diagram, draft, sketch), izvlačenje (extraction), crtež (design, draft), crtanje. (various references)

Spanish

dibujo (design, designing, figure, pattern, picture, sketch). (various references)

Swedish

ritning (design), teckning (design, sketch), dragning (dragging, draw, inclination, leaning, tinge, traction). (various references)

Turkish

taslak (conspectus, design, diagram, draft, draft plan, draught, outline, plan, rough, roughcast, schema, silhouette, skeleton, sketch, study, tracing, visual), resim taslağı (cartoon), resim (dues, effigy, figure, illustration, image, likeness, painting, photo, pictorial, picture, tablature, tableau, tax), eskiz (rough copy, sketch, study), çizme (boot, buskin, top boot, wellingtons), çizim (construction, ichno-, illustration, picture, technical drawing), çizgi (bar, furrow, grain, groove, line, ruling, score, scratch, stria, stripe, wheal), çekme (allure, allurement, bearing, draft, draught, draw, extraction, haul, haulage, hitch, hoist, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinkage, shrinking, soak, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction, withdrawal). (various references)

Turkmen 

зyzgy (draft). (various references)

Ukrainian

рисунок, тягнучий (propelling), тягловий, креслення (delineation, description, draft, drafting, draftsmanship, draughtsmanship, protraction), відтяжний (dilatory, revulsive), протягування. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vẽ kỹ thuật, sự lấy ra (evulsion), sự kéo (break, draw, drawn, drew, pluck, pull). (various references)

Welsh

arlun (painting, portrait). (various references)

1. ma�da. (various references)

deductum, deductus, tractus. (various references)

schizzo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "drawing": drawings. (additional references)

Words ending with "drawing": misdrawing, outdrawing, overdrawing, redrawing, undrawing, wiredrawing, withdrawing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drawing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darkwing, Darwent, dawing, draming, drawen, drawin, drawning, drawyn, drowing, dyading. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: warding.

-1 letter: daring, dawing, gradin, inward, wading, waring.

-2 letters: awing, dinar, diwan, drain, drawn, garni, grain, grand, grind, nadir, ranid, rawin, wigan, wrang, wring.

-3 letters: agin, airn, arid, dang, darn, dawn, ding, drag, draw, gadi, gain, gird, girn, gnar, gnaw, grad, gran, grid, grin, nard, ragi, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, rind, ring, wadi, wain.

+1 letter: awarding, drawings, drawling, dwarfing, swarding.

+2 letters: rawhiding, redrawing, rewarding, undrawing, wandering.

+3 letters: bedwarfing, dewatering, drawlingly, drawstring, forwarding, hardwiring, misdrawing, outdrawing, stewarding, wanderings, wingspread.

+4 letters: becowarding, downgrading, drawstrings, handwringer, handwriting, hardworking, misawarding, overdrawing, rewardingly, unrewarding, wingspreads, wiredrawing, withdrawing, woodcarving.

+5 letters: breadwinning, handwringers, handwringing, handwritings, snowboarding, woodcarvings.