draw (original) (raw)
draw verb (CAUSE)
draw verb (PULL)
draw verb (CHOOSE)
draw verb (TAKE OUT)
draw blood He bit me so hard that it drew blood.
draw verb (GET)
draw verb (BREATHE)
draw verb (EQUAL)
draw verb (MONEY)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
See also
Idioms
Phrasal verbs
draw noun (ATTRACTION)
draw noun (EQUAL SCORE)
draw noun (SMOKE)
draw noun (OF GUN)
Idiom
(Definition of draw from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
draw | American Dictionary
draw verb (PICTURE)
draw verb (MOVE)
draw verb (PULL/PULL IN)
draw verb (TAKE OUT)
draw verb (DECIDE ON)
draw verb (CAUSE)
Idioms
Phrasal verbs
draw noun [C] (ATTRACTION)
draw noun [C] (GAME RESULT)
(Definition of draw from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of draw
draw
More than this, it was strikingly similar to some of the plans being drawn up at that very moment by coiffeurs themselves.
They plotted out the area and drew up plans before taking it over.
Therefore, the experts who planned production were drawn from industry itself.
The fewest and longest lines are also drawn on plans generating an 'axial map'.
Examples are given from each category, drawing on qualitative data.
It is commendable that the author draws on qualitative and quantitative measures throughout these chapters.
In his visits to and walks around allotments, public housing projects and wasteland, he took photographs, drew maps and interviewed inhabitants or users of space.
The chapter on anxiety, communication and safety in performance again draws on all the psychological concepts previously discussed.
All reviewers are able to draw on this resource.
The lottery runs over 36 weeks, with one number being drawn and not replaced each week.
It draws on important insights associated with other theodicies, but attempts to get past their alleged shortcomings.
In days past, the features, often words, were directly plotted on a map, and isoglosses were drawn to circumscribe the region.
It is thus possible to draw the range of spike length for which oscillation occurred against shoulder radius (figure 3).
This draws an obvious dichotomy between marine and freshwater systems.
The details, the technological and formal solutions were drawn into a synthesis and their many elements into a unitary order.
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Collocations with draw
These are words often used in combination with draw.
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International news is a big draw for the new media.
The higher power factor reduces the peak current draw, reducing load on the circuit or on an uninterruptible power supply.
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This is a small market and excludes bows with rubber suction pads which could not do any harm as they do not have enough draw weight to hurt anything.
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