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# drawer

«drawer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a box in a table, desk or cupboard that slides in and…** — 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

noun (drawer, drawers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A drawer is a box in a table, desk or cupboard that slides in and out, for keeping things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#m1)

2) A drawer is also a person who draws pictures (rare). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a container: things in each drawer; socks taken out of a drawer; in everyday life: a sock drawer, a kitchen drawer for spoons, a desk drawer for pencils; in safety: keep sharp knives and medicines in closed drawers away from small children; phrases: «top drawer» (the best), «chest of drawers»

### examples

- Each drawer holds 8 shirts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#x1)
- The desk has 3 drawers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#x2)
- There are 10 socks in the drawer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#x3)
- How many pencils are in 4 drawers? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#x4)
- The spoons are in the top drawer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#x5)
- She keeps her socks in the bottom drawer of the chest of drawers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#x6)
- Close the drawer so nobody trips. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#x7)
- He found an old letter at the back of the drawer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#x8)
- It is quite like tidying up drawers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawer/#x9)

### note

Equal groups. Trap in «socks from a drawer without looking»: think of the worst case. Pronounced like «draw», one syllable in UK speech. Plural: drawers. A «chest of drawers» is one piece of furniture.

### In the corpora

- [Grandma's best silver spoons come out of the drawer dull and almost black, even though nobody has used them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change/0/)
- ["Not the sharpest knife in the drawer" means not very clever; it is a humorous phrase.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/12/)
- [Pull drawers gently and only partly, because a heavy drawer can fall out and many open drawers can tip the chest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/110-windows-balconies-and-furniture/15/)
- [Many young children are poisoned each year by medicines found in bags, drawers and on tables.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/295-scissors-toddlers-medicines-fire-and-damp/23/)
- [Tom found matches in a drawer and struck one to see the flame.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/349-going-where-youre-not-allowed/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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