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drawing

Definition

  • noun: a picture, image, etc., that is made by making lines on a surface with a pencil, pen, marker, chalk, etc., but usually not with paint
  • noun: an act or instance of drawing
  • often + 'for'
  • synonyms: delineation, dragging, draft

Examples

  • Many people have been 'drawing' comparisons 'between' the two movies. [=have been saying that the movies are similar]

  • The project will never get 'off the drawing board'. [=will never go beyond the planning stage]

  • The company went 'back to the drawing board' [=started over] to make a better product.

Movie quotes

  • (..) The gate. We saw it, in the morass. I've been putting together all the clues I can about it. This. This drawing. - Where did you copy it from? - Guardian. And this? And this? I've been researching ever since (..)
    2016 Warcraft