draw > define

noun

A gully that is shallower than a ravine.
An entertainer who attracts large audiences.
- usage: "he was the biggest drawing card they had"
- synonyms: drawing card, attraction, attractor, attracter
The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided.
- usage: "the game ended in a draw"; "their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie"
- synonyms: standoff, tie
Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random.
- usage: "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it"
- synonyms: lot
A playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack.
- usage: "he got a pair of kings in the draw"
A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer.
- usage: "he took lessons to cure his hooking"
- synonyms: hook, hooking
American football. ( the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage)
- synonyms: draw play
Poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer.
- usage: "he played only draw and stud"
- synonyms: draw poker
The act of drawing or hauling something.
- usage: "the haul up the hill went very slowly"
- synonyms: haul, haulage

verb

Cause to move by pulling.
- usage: "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
- synonyms: pull, force
Get or derive.
- usage: "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association"
- synonyms: reap
Make a mark or lines on a surface.
- usage: "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
- synonyms: trace, line, describe, delineate
Make, formulate, or derive in the mind.
- usage: "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks"
- synonyms: make
Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover.
- usage: "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"
- synonyms: pull, pull out, get out, take out
Represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. On a surface.
- usage: "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse"
Take liquid out of a container or well.
- usage: "She drew water from the barrel"
- synonyms: take out
Give a description of.
- usage: "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"
- synonyms: describe, depict
Select or take in from a given group or region.
- usage: "The participants in the experiment were drawn from a representative population"
Elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc..
- usage: "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans"; "The comedian drew a lot of laughter"
Suck in or take (air. )
- usage: "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
- synonyms: puff, drag
Move or go steadily or gradually.
- usage: "The ship drew near the shore"
Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source. )
- usage: "She drew $2, 000 from the account"; "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank"
- synonyms: withdraw, take out, draw off
Choose at random.
- usage: "draw a card"; "cast lots"
- synonyms: cast
Earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher.
- usage: "He drew a base on balls"
- synonyms: get
Bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition.
- usage: "She was drawn to despair"; "The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum"; "The session was drawn to a close"
Cause to flow.
- usage: "The nurse drew blood"
Write a legal document or paper.
- usage: "The deed was drawn in the lawyer's office"
Engage in drawing.
- usage: "He spent the day drawing in the garden"
Move or pull so as to cover or uncover something.
- usage: "draw the shades"; "draw the curtains"
Allow a draft.
- usage: "This chimney draws very well"
Require a specified depth for floating.
- usage: "This boat draws 70 inches"
Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him.
- usage: "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"
- synonyms: quarter, draw and quarter
Cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense.
- usage: "A declining dollar pulled down the export figures for the last quarter"
- synonyms: pull
Take in, also metaphorically.
- usage: "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"
- synonyms: absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up
Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes.
- usage: "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
- synonyms: attract, pull, pull in, draw in
Thread on or as if on a string.
- usage: "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries"
- synonyms: string, thread
Stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow. )
- usage: "The archers were drawing their bows"
- synonyms: pull back
Pass over, across, or through.
- usage: "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"
- synonyms: guide, run, pass
Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc..
- usage: "The teams drew a tie"
- synonyms: tie
Contract.
- usage: "The material drew after it was washed in hot water"
Reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die.
- usage: "draw wire"
Steep; pass through a strainer.
- usage: "draw pulp from the fruit"
Remove the entrails of.
- usage: "draw a chicken"
- synonyms: disembowel, eviscerate
Flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching.
- usage: "draw steel"
Cause to localize at one point.
- usage: "Draw blood and pus"

(v.t.) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
(v.i.) To become contracted; to shrink.
(v.i.) To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon.
(n.) That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.
(v.t.) To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to gain; as, he drew a prize.
(v.t.) To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.
(v.i.) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.
(v.t.) To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed or bill of exchange.
(v.i.) To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.
(v.t.) To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.
(v.t.) To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.
(n.) The act of drawing; draught.
(v.t.) To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.
(n.) A drawn game or battle, etc.
(v.t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.
(v.t.) To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
(v.t.) To withdraw.
(n.) A lot or chance to be drawn.
(v.t.) To trace by scent; to track; -- a hunting term.
(v.i.) To have draught, as a chimney, flue or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.
(v.t.) To select by the drawing of lots.
(v.i.) To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, especially in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.
(v.i.) To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.
(v.i.) To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.
(v.t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.
(v.t.) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.
(v.i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
(v.i.) To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.
(v.t.) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
(v.i.) To perform the act or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.
(v.t.) To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
(v.i.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc.
(v.t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.
(v.t.) To run, extend or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure or picture.
(v.t.) To remove the contents of.
(v.t.) To pull from a sheath, as a sword.
(n.) The spin or twist imparted to a ball or the like, by a drawing stroke.
(v.t.) To leave (a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn.
(n.) A drawn battle, game or the like.
(n.) That which is drawn or is subject to drawing.
(v.t.) 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.
(v.t.) To throw up (the stone) gently.
(v.t.) 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.
(v.t.) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
(n.) The result of drawing or state of being drawn;.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Periodic advances of funds according to the schedule of payments in a construction loan agreement. Also called advance, disbursement, payout, progress payment, or takedown.