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draw (DRAW) (verb)
1. To make a picture, image, etc. by making lines on a surface usually with a pencil, pen, marker, chalk, etc.; but normally not with paint: "The children were trying to draw an illustration of their feelings about the accident which they witnessed."
2. To choose something from a group without knowing which one is being chosen: "Imogene was about to draw the slip from the container indicating what the prize would be for the winner."
3. To cause someone to become involved or interested in something or someone: "A good writer knows how to draw readers in by making them interested in the contents of the material."
2. To choose something from a group without knowing which one is being chosen: "Imogene was about to draw the slip from the container indicating what the prize would be for the winner."
3. To cause someone to become involved or interested in something or someone: "A good writer knows how to draw readers in by making them interested in the contents of the material."
draw (DRAW) (noun)
1. Someone or something that causes people to go somewhere and to participate in certain activities: "The festival is always a big draw and that band is the main draw at the celebration."
2. The choice of someone for a prize: "There will be a draw for the winner of the money in a few minutes."
2. The choice of someone for a prize: "There will be a draw for the winner of the money in a few minutes."
Petra won the draw at the party; the prize was for an artist to draw a portrait of her dog.
This was a popular prize which served to draw many people to buy more tickets in hopes of also winning a similar draw.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group D; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
(page 7)
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(Latin: to draw out, to drink; to draw water, to swallow)
(Greek: papyros > Latin > Old French; papyrus, an Egyptian rush [a reed plant] from which material was made for writing or drawing. Used in the sense of "fibrous material on which to write or to draw"; paper)
(Latin: draw tight, to bind, to compress)
(Greek > Latin: contraction; to draw together)
(Latin: drag, draw together; a drawing out or pulling)