Draw - English meaning

noun

The quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating.

Usage examples:

People for whom gold holds no allure

verb

Powerfully attract or charm; tempt.

Usage examples:

Will sponsors really be allured by such opportunities?

verb

Make a serious, urgent, or heartfelt request.

Usage examples:

Police are appealing for information about the incident

noun

A serious, urgent, or heartfelt request.

Usage examples:

His mother made an appeal for the return of the ring

verb

To be interesting or attractive

Usage examples:

Such music managed to appeal to the tastes of both young and old., [ t ] the verdict was appealed t…

noun

The action or power of evoking interest in or liking for someone or something.

Usage examples:

The timeless attraction of a good tune

noun

A system of voting secretly and in writing on a particular issue.

Usage examples:

A strike ballot

verb

(of an organization) ask (members) to vote secretly on an issue.

Usage examples:

The union is preparing to ballot its members on industrial action

verb

Lose blood from the body as a result of injury or illness.

Usage examples:

The cut was bleeding steadily

noun

An instance of bleeding.

Usage examples:

A lot of blood was lost from the placental bleed

noun

The power or quality of delighting, attracting, or fascinating others.

Usage examples:

His charm has captivated the media

verb

Delight greatly.

Usage examples:

The books have charmed children the world over

adjective

Denoting a flavour (variety) of unstable quark having an electric charge of + 2/3. charm quarks have similar properties to up quarks and top quarks, but are distinguished from them by having an intermediate mass.

phrasal verb

Move towards

phrasal verb

Used for telling someone to move or act quickly or more quickly

Usage examples:

Come on – we’re going to be late if you don’t hurry!, oh, come on. you have no evidence whatsoever.…

noun

A situation in which two or more competitors in a race are exactly level.

Usage examples:

Competition is always fierce, with a dead heat in one of the early races

verb

Run or finish a race exactly level.

Usage examples:

He dead-heated at aintree

noun

A race in which two or more competitors finish at exactly the same time

Usage examples:

The two horses finished in a dead heat., fig. opinion pollsters call the congressional race a dead …

verb

Tell (someone) officially that they can or must leave a place or situation.

Usage examples:

They stressed that staff would not be actively discharging anyone and no programme was in place to …

noun

The action of discharging someone from a hospital or from the armed forces or police.

Usage examples:

Referrals can be discussed before discharge from hospital

verb

To allow someone to leave

Usage examples:

Allen was discharged from the hospital yesterday., [ i ] the soapy water from the washing machine w…

verb

Cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty or dry.

Usage examples:

We drained the swimming pool

noun

A channel or pipe carrying off surplus liquid, especially rainwater or liquid waste.

Usage examples:

The room's toilet pipes and shower drains carry this waste to a holding tank.

verb

Emptying something by allowing liquid to run out of it

phrasal verb

Make more sociable

phrasal verb

To cause something to last longer than is usual or necessary

Usage examples:

The trial was drawn out because of the need to translate everything., she was good at drawing out y…

phrasal verb

To get money from a bank or an account so that you can use it

Usage examples:

The bank allows us to draw out £500 a week.

noun

A feeling of great pleasure; delight.

Usage examples:

The enchantment of the mountains

noun

A feeling of great pleasure and attraction, especially because something is very beautiful

Usage examples:

The audience looked on in utter fascination and enchantment., this is a place of enchantment and be…

noun

Something used to attract or to tempt someone; a lure.

Usage examples:

Financial enticements

noun

The act of persuading someone to do something by offering them something pleasant

Usage examples:

One of the enticements of the job is the company car., foreign investors were offered every imagina…

verb

Remove or take out, especially by effort or force.

Usage examples:

The fossils are extracted from the chalk

noun

A short passage taken from a text, film, or piece of music.

Usage examples:

An extract from a historical film

verb

Remove, usually with some force or effort

noun

The power to fascinate someone; the quality of being fascinating.

Usage examples:

Television has always held a fascination for me

noun

A porous device for removing impurities or solid particles from a liquid or gas passed through it.

Usage examples:

An oil filter

verb

Pass (a liquid, gas, light, or sound) through a device to remove unwanted material.

Usage examples:

The eye filters out ultraviolet radiation

noun

A piece of equipment or a device for removing solids from liquids or gases, or for limiting the particular type of light, sound, or electricity going through it

Usage examples:

An oil filter, a coffee filter, [ i always + adv/prep ] reports of the accident began to filter in.…

verb

To catch more fish from a river, lake, sea, etc. than someone else

Usage examples:

All of us in the group did okay on the trip, but grant outfished us., the trawler captain was inten…

noun

An attractive or exciting quality that makes certain people or things seem appealing.

Usage examples:

The glamour of monte carlo

noun

A quality of someone or something that causes excitement and admiration because of its style or attractive appearance

Usage examples:

Hollywood glamour, the downhill race was one of the glamour events of the winter olympics.

noun

A precise moment of time.

Usage examples:

Come here this instant!

adjective

Happening or coming immediately.

Usage examples:

The offence justified instant dismissal

adjective

Urgent; pressing.

Usage examples:

An instant desire to blame others when things go wrong

noun

A means of raising money by selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random.

Usage examples:

The introduction of a national lottery

noun

A system of selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to those people whose numbers are chosen by chance

Usage examples:

Even if she won the lottery, paige says she’d still keep her job.

noun

A game of chance, often organized by the government to raise money, in which people win cash if they have bought a winning ticket

Usage examples:

The council applied for a £40m grant from the national lottery to redevelop local facilities., lott…

noun

A children's game similar to bingo, in which numbered or illustrated counters or cards are drawn by the players.

Usage examples:

It is a simple naming task with pictures from a children's lotto.

noun

A game of chance in which each player tries to match the numbers on their card with numbers pulled out of a container

verb

Tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward.

Usage examples:

The child was lured into a car but managed to escape

noun

Something that tempts or is used to tempt a person or animal to do something.

Usage examples:

The film industry always has been a glamorous lure for young girls

noun

Variant spelling of lur.

noun

A physical phenomenon produced by the motion of electric charge, which results in attractive and repulsive forces between objects.

Usage examples:

Relativity would arrive, not from concerns over the flaws in newton's mechanics, but rather from co…

noun

The power of a magnet to attract other objects

Usage examples:

Fig. elvis’s animal magnetism (= powerful physical attraction) made him a beloved celebrity to mill…

noun

An opaque white fluid rich in fat and protein, secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young.

Usage examples:

A healthy mother will produce enough milk for her baby

verb

Draw milk from (a cow or other animal), either by hand or mechanically.

Usage examples:

Two hours later he was up again to milk the cows

noun

The white liquid produced esp. by cows which people drink

Usage examples:

Cookies and milk, breast milk is the best nourishment for a baby., coconut milk, the newspapers mil…

noun

The action or process of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something.

Usage examples:

Monica needed plenty of persuasion before she actually left

Communication intended to induce belief or action

noun

A particular set of beliefs, esp. religious or political ones

Usage examples:

People of all religious persuasions are welcome.

verb

Flow rapidly in a steady stream.

Usage examples:

Water poured off the roof

verb

To make a substance flow, esp. out of a container and usually into another container

Usage examples:

[ t ] pour the sugar into the bowl., [ t ] would you like me to pour you some coffee?, [ i ] water …

verb

Make or manufacture from components or raw materials.

Usage examples:

The company have just produced a luxury version of the aircraft

noun

Agricultural and other natural products collectively.

Usage examples:

Dairy produce

verb

Bring forth or yield

verb

Exert force on (someone or something) so as to cause movement towards oneself.

Usage examples:

He pulled them down on to the couch

noun

An act of pulling something.

Usage examples:

Give the hair a quick pull and it comes out by the roots

verb

Apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion

noun

A mechanical device using suction or pressure to raise or move liquids, compress gases, or force air into inflatable objects such as tyres.

Usage examples:

A petrol pump

verb

Force (liquid, gas, etc.) to move by or as if by means of a pump.

Usage examples:

The blood is pumped around the body

noun

A sports shoe; a plimsoll.

Usage examples:

If you buy the kids plimsolls for pe, rather than pumps, you probably live in east yorkshire - or o…

noun

A means of raising money by selling numbered tickets, one or some of which are subsequently drawn at random, the holder or holders of such tickets winning a prize.

Usage examples:

A raffle ticket

verb

Offer as a prize in a raffle.

Usage examples:

A toy polar bear was due to be raffled for the appeal

noun

Rubbish; refuse.

Usage examples:

The raffle of the yard below

verb

Take (something) away or off from the position occupied.

Usage examples:

Customs officials removed documents from the premises

noun

A degree of remoteness or separation.

Usage examples:

At this remove, the whole incident seems insane

noun

The action of seducing someone.

Usage examples:

If seduction doesn't work, she can play on his sympathy

noun

The attractive quality of something

Usage examples:

[ u ] the movie is an advertisement for the seduction of flight., [ u ] the movie depicts her seduc…

noun

A tube used to convey liquid upwards from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of its own accord. once the liquid has been forced into the tube, typically by suction or immersion, flow continues unaided.

Usage examples:

In the extinguisher, a plastic siphon tube leads from the bottom of the fire-suppressant reservoir …

verb

Draw off or convey (liquid) by means of a siphon.

Usage examples:

A piece of tubing was used to siphon petrol

noun

A tube that is bent in the shape of an "n", with each end in a separate container at two different levels, so that liquid can be pulled up into it from the higher container and go down through it into the lower container

noun

A situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible.

Usage examples:

The war had again reached stalemate

verb

Bring to or cause to reach stalemate.

Usage examples:

The group played a key role in stalemating the negotiations

noun

A situation in which nothing can change or no action can be taken

Usage examples:

[ u ] stalemate in congress over education reform has made voters angry., [ c ] the arrival of fres…

verb

Draw into the mouth by contracting the muscles of the lips and mouth to make a partial vacuum.

Usage examples:

They suck mint juleps through straws

noun

An act of sucking something.

Usage examples:

The fish draws the bait into its mouth with a strong suck

exclamation

Used to express derision and defiance.

Usage examples:

Sucks to them!

verb

Clean (an area) by brushing away dirt or litter.

Usage examples:

I've swept the floor

noun

An act of sweeping something with a brush.

Usage examples:

I was giving the floor a quick sweep

noun

A form of gambling, especially on horse races, in which all the stakes are divided among the winners.

Usage examples:

A sweepstake ticket

noun

A type of gambling, often on a horse race, in which people pay a small amount of money and choose a particular horse, team, etc. the person who chooses the winning horse, team, etc. receives all the money paid by everyone else.

noun

A device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled.

Usage examples:

She turned the cold tap on

verb

Draw liquid through the tap or spout of (a cask, barrel, or other container).

Usage examples:

Several barrels had been tapped to celebrate old victories

noun

A quick light blow, or the sound of such a blow.

Usage examples:

There was a sharp tap at the door

noun

The desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise.

Usage examples:

He resisted the temptation to call celia at the office

noun

The desire to have or do something, esp. something wrong, or something that causes this desire

Usage examples:

[ u ] it’s not easy to resist temptation., [ c ] ice cream is always a real temptation for me.

verb

Attach or fasten with string or similar cord.

Usage examples:

They tied max to a chair

noun

A piece of string, cord, or similar used for fastening or tying something.

Usage examples:

He tightened the tie of his robe

verb

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord

noun

The pointed or rounded end or extremity of something slender or tapering.

Usage examples:

George pressed the tips of his fingers together

verb

Attach to or cover the end or extremity of.

Usage examples:

The peaks of the mountains were tipped with snow

noun

A place where rubbish is left.

Usage examples:

A rubbish tip

noun

A game in which people pick tickets out of a revolving drum and certain tickets win immediate prizes, typically played at a fete or fair.

Usage examples:

Entrance includes a tombola and raffle

noun

A game in which tickets with different numbers are bought from a spinning container and small prizes are won when the numbers on the tickets are the same as the numbers on the prizes

Usage examples:

I won a bottle of port on the tombola at the fair.

verb

Carry, wield, or convey (something heavy or substantial).

Usage examples:

Here are books well worth toting home

noun

A tote bag.

Usage examples:

A chocolate brown leather tote with ponyskin appliqué

noun

A system of betting based on the use of the totalizator, in which dividends are calculated according to the amount staked rather than odds offered.

Usage examples:

He has taken a risk with the tote

verb

Move from one place to another.

Usage examples:

He intends to transfer the fund's assets to the treasury

noun

An act of moving something or someone to another place, organization, team, etc.

Usage examples:

A transfer of wealth to the eu's poorer nations

verb

Move from one place to another

verb

Draw or pull out (a knife, sword, or similar weapon) from its sheath or covering.

Usage examples:

Alexei unsheathed the dagger

adjective

Not valid or legally binding.

Usage examples:

The contract was void

noun

A completely empty space.

Usage examples:

The black void of space

verb

Declare that (something) is not valid or legally binding.

Usage examples:

The supreme court voided the statute

verb

Remove or take away (something) from a particular place or position.

Usage examples:

Ruth withdrew her hand from his

verb

Pull back or move away or backward

verb

To take something back, or to remove something

Usage examples:

[ t ] he asked that his name be withdrawn from nomination for a golden globe award., [ t ] democrat…