Word Finder - draw

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The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.

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The game ended in a draw.

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The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.

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The draw is on Saturday.

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Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.

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The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).

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A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.

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A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.

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A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.

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A bag of cannabis.

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Cannabis.

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In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.

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A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.

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The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.

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The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

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To move or develop something.

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To exert or experience force.

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(fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.

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To change in size or shape.

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To attract or be attracted.

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(usually as draw on or draw upon) To rely on; utilize as a source.

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She had to draw upon her experience to solve the problem.

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To disembowel.

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To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).

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We drew last time we played.  I drew him last time I played him.  I drew my last game against him.

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To choose by means of a random selection process.

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To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.

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To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

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To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.

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To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.

Isn't it strange how babies can draw people together?

Luck of the draw, I guess.

He evidently wished to draw him on.

Lisa did the best she could to draw a map on the small piece of paper.

Teachers can draw their own conclusions.

Before she could draw her wrist away, he pierced it.

I can't draw back now!

One of them was brighter than the others, as if trying to draw her attention.

Other than occasional attempts to draw him out, she respected his privacy.

She struggled to move again, to draw their attention so they'd help her.

She was hardly able to draw a deep breath through her tight chest.

She struggled to draw deep breaths.

Her draw was insane.

I don't know what kind of wages you draw here, but I'd be willing to pay you a hundred a week plus room and board.

I set up my micro to draw their fire.

He shouldn't have to draw a picture for her.

Even if not for Rhyn's name scrawled across her neck, she'd draw attention.

She didn.t hear Kris draw abreast until the man stood at her side, staring at the gorgeous woman approaching.

If I could draw, you would be my favorite subject.

I'll draw you a map while you make your phone call.

There was a momentary pause in the conversation; the old general cleared his throat to draw attention.

Dusty resisted the urge to draw his hand cannon from the small of his back.

She wasn't eager to draw his undivided attention, but his distance struck her as unusual, if not yet another rejection.

Then, transferring the product Wr correspondinf with this balance weight to the reference plane, proceed to draw the force polygon.

You can play video games and paint or draw from anywhere.

Jackson grabbed the bottle and took a long draw, but did not respond.

He spoke, his voice quieting until Vara had to draw nearer.

From E draw EH perpendicular to OB, and EK to OA.

His power was checked but his unusual presence enough to draw the looks of those around them.

Or maybe he'd succumbed to the weird draw around the woman.

Demonstralion.From C draw CF perpendicular to OA, and CG

It had served to draw Young's attention to the question of oil-production, and in 1850 he took out his fundamental patent for the distillation of bituminous substances.

They generally draw from a common source, the Roman legendary, and the lives of the local saints, i.e.

She stopped within full view of Jetr and waited, not wanting to draw the attention of the entire Council to her.

Rather than warn them again, he tied his reins to his horse's mane, freeing up his hands to draw his knives.

The same zeal for union induced him, during the residence of Peter the Great in France, and at that monarch's request, to draw up a plan for uniting the Greek and Roman churches.

The first volume, Vegetable Staticks (1727), contains an account of numerous experiments in plant-physiology - the loss of water in plants by evaporation, the rate of growth of shoots and leaves, variations in root-force at different times of the day, &c. Considering it very probable that plants draw "through their leaves some part of their nourishment from the air," he undertook experiments to show in "how great a proportion air is wrought into the composition of animal, vegetable and mineral substances"; though this "analysis of the air" did not lead him to any very clear ideas about the composition of the atmosphere, in the course of his inquiries he collected gases over water in vessels separate from those in which they were generated, and thus used what was to all intents and purposes a "pneumatic trough."

The elections for the States General were soon to take place; and the first important act of the new bishop was to draw up a manifesto or programme of the reforms which he desired to see carried out by the States General of France.

But this only means that we cannot draw a hard and fast line between groups of early Christian writings at a time when practical religious interests overshadowed all others.

The reckless conduct of the Madras government had roused the hostility both of Hyder Ali of Mysore and of the nizam of the Deccan, the two strongest Mussulman powers in India, who attempted to draw the Mahrattas into an alliance against the British.

The path of a point P in or attached to the rolling cone is a spherical epitrochoid traced on the surface of a sphere of the radius OP. From P draw PQ perpendicular to the instantaneous axis.

Draw BE perpendicular to CB, cutting CD produced in E, then E is the instantaneous axis of the bar ADB; and the direction of motion of A is at every instant perpendicular to EAthat is, along the straight line ACa.

He rushed at the barefooted Frenchman and, before the latter had time to draw his sword, knocked him off his feet and hammered him with his fists.

Only the draw around this woman meant for him was much stronger.

At the same time one also meets with frank avowals of a superstitious fear lest any irregularity in the performance of the obsequial rites should cause the Fathers to haunt their old home and trouble the peace of their undutiful descendant, or even prematurely draw him after them to the Pitri-loka or world of the Fathers, supposed to be located in the southern region.

It would be difficult to draw any comparison between German and Italian humanists to the disparagement of the former.

In this regard it is somewhat difficult to draw the line between that which is a rational and scientific method for preventing waste of good material and sophistication pure and simple.

A persistent opponent of the plebeians, he resisted the proposal of Terentilius Arsa (or Harsa) to draw up a code of written laws applicable equally to patricians and plebeians.

In 1572 a kind of Episcopacy was set up in the interest of the nobles, who in order to draw the income of the episcopal sees had to arrange with men possessing a legal title to them.

I would teach you how to draw pictures of sheep and horses, and even of men, said the stranger.