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# draw

«draw» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make a picture or shape with a pencil, pen or crayon** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (draw, draws, drew, drawn, drawing); noun (a draw, draws)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To draw means to make a picture or shape with a pencil, pen or crayon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#m1)

2) To draw can also mean to pull or take out, like drawing a card or drawing water from a well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#m2)

3) A draw is a game that ends with the same score for both sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#m3)

4) To draw the curtains is to close or open them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#m4)

5) A draw is also picking names or tickets by chance, like a raffle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#m5)

6) To draw near means to come closer in time or place, like a day that is getting nearer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

maths: making pictures or shapes counted; drawing shapes and graphs with a ruler; drawing cards or balls from a bag (take away, chance); a game ending in a draw (a tie); art: drawing and sketching; everyday life: draw the curtains, a prize draw; phrases: «draw a line», «draw near», «draw up a plan»

### examples

- She draws 4 pictures every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#x1)
- Draw a square with sides of 3 cm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#x2)
- He draws a card from the deck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#x3)
- The game ended in a draw. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#x4)
- Draw a bar graph of the results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#x5)
- Please draw the curtains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#x6)
- My name was picked in the prize draw. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#x7)
- The horse draws the cart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#x8)
- “Let us draw lots,” Wendy said bravely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/#x9)

### note

Usually the thing made is counted; drawing from a bag takes things out (subtract, or chance). Trap: a draw in a game means nobody won. Past forms: drew, drawn (not «drawed»). «Drawer» is a box in a desk.

### In the corpora

- [A reference is a photo or object you look at while you draw, like the photo Ling checked for her horse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/7/)
- [Most people will not notice one wobbly line, and you can draw over it; sketchbooks are full of wobbly lines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/14/)
- [Small shakes are normal; artists draw lightly with many strokes from the shoulder and elbow, then darken the line they like.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/17/)
- [Classic cartoons were drawn by hand, often on clear sheets called cels.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/8/)
- [Many TV cartoons are written in one country and drawn in another, often in South Korea, Japan or the Philippines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «draw» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/draw/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.