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# drawing

«drawing» in Mova's school dictionary: **a picture made with a pencil, pen or crayon, mostly with…** — 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 (a drawing, drawings; drawing as an activity); verb form (drawing, from draw)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A drawing is a picture made with a pencil, pen or crayon, mostly with lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#m1)

2) Drawing is the art or activity of making pictures like this. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#m2)

3) Drawing is also the «-ing» form of «draw», as in drawing a line, drawing the curtains or drawing a raffle ticket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school art, maths and science pupils make drawings: labelled drawings of plants, drawings of shapes, scale drawings. In stories a drawing may be a clue or a gift. Phrases: «a drawing of», «a scale drawing», «drawing a line», «drawing near» (coming closer), «drawing the curtains».

### examples

- I did a drawing of my cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#x1)
- Drawing is my favourite lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#x2)
- Make a labelled drawing of a flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#x3)
- We pinned our drawings on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#x4)
- She is drawing a triangle with a ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#x5)
- The day was drawing to a close. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#x6)
- Dad is drawing the curtains because it is dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#x7)
- The winner of the raffle is being drawn now, and they are drawing the tickets from a hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drawing/#x8)

### note

As a noun it is countable (a drawing) or uncountable (I love drawing). Do not confuse «drawing» with «drawer» (a box in a desk). In maths a scale drawing keeps all lengths in the same ratio, for example one centimetre for one metre.

### In the corpora

- [A parent showing your drawing to everyone at work is proud of you; parents show off their children because it makes them happy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/13/)
- [An art teacher wants to see your own drawing, wobbly lines and all, not a traced copy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/11/)
- [3D pavement art uses perspective tricks so a chalk drawing looks deep from one spot; chalk washes away in the rain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/15/)
- [Many artists and animators still draw by hand even when they also use computers and AI, because drawing trains how you see.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/36-ai-pictures-and-ai-music-as-reported/15/)
- [Hands are one of the hardest things to draw; drawing your own hand often, starting with simple shapes, helps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/37-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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