The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

An essential step in glassblowing, where hot glass is pulled to make a longer and thinner piece. For example, when making stringers from rod.

Mechanically forming metal by tension through or in a die.

The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

The act of marking lines on a surface, and the product of such action. Includes pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, conte crayon, markers, silverpoint, and other graphic media on paper.

the act of representing an image on a surface by means of adding lines and shades, as with a pencil, crayon, pen, chalk, pastels, etc. Also refers to an illustration that has been drawn by hand.

Ink that is neither handwriting nor gestures.

The act of pulling, or attracting.

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

The next step after carding or combing. Several slivers of carded fibers are combined to one as the slivers are drawn out in length.

The act of encouraging the hounds through the wood to search for the quarry.

a means of conveying ideas to others using lines, symbols and signs

act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source; "the drawing of water from the well"

a germ of an idea, and not always thought of as something the public will see

a picture of something

The type of picture made by a vector drawing program. It doesn't involve individual pixels. It says, rather, "a line from this particular gridpoint, at such and such an angle and of such and such a length, thickness and colour". Items can be moved, sized, brought to the front etc at any time. These drawings are very smooth, but harder to learn to make than bitmaps. Adobe Illustrator is a drawing program. The Word drawing bar makes vector drawings.

an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine; "it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7"

a picture readily to be brought to life

One or more specially prepared figures filed as a part of a patent application to explain and describe the invention. Drawings (or illustrations) are more commonly found with inventions for mechanical or electrical devices. As a rule, chemical patents and biotechnology patents will include chemical formulae drawings or genetic code in the description of the invention and/or in the examples.

the creation of artistic drawings; "he learned drawing from his father"

an interpretation, a tender exchange between the artist and the sitter, which requires time, an element lacking in photography, to achieve fruition

a personal expression in which the subject may be changed, rearranged, simplified, or turned topsy-turvy to suit the artist

a very basic way to assess someone's artistic talent

a collection of graphics objects, and its implementation of the Draw method will enumerate all primitives it contains and draw each one of them

an engineering document or digital data file that discloses the physical and functional requirements of an item (directly by means of graphic and textual presentations, or by reference)

Creating graphics with a computer

a snapshot of a single moment

to call bets with a hand that is unlikely to be the best at the moment, but has chances of improving. " I flopped a straightdraw, but on the turn, I realized my opponent was drawing as well, so I raised him on the river and he folded."

Continuing to play a hand, using the Flop, Turn and River in Hold 'Em.

to play a hand that you want to improve.

When you’re hoping to improve your hand with the remaining cards to come. You’ve got four to a flush and need to see the fifth to make your hand.

Playing a hand to improve.