Synonyms for Drawing
ˈdrɔ ɪŋdraw·ing

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1. drawing

   A sketch is a rough, suggestive presentation of anything, whether graphic or literary, commonly intended to be preliminary to a more complete or extended treatment. An outline gives only the bounding or determining lines of a figure or a scene; a sketch may give not only lines, but shading and color, but is hasty and incomplete. The lines of a sketch are seldom so full and continuous as those of an outline, being, like the shading or color, little more than indications or suggestions according to which a finished picture may be made; the artist's first representation of a sunset, the hues of which change so rapidly, must of necessity be a sketch. Draft and plan apply especially to mechanical drawing, of which outline, sketch, and drawing are also used; a plan is strictly a view from above, as of a building or machine, giving the lines of a horizontal section, originally at the level of the ground, now in a wider sense at any height; as, a plan of the cellar; a plan of the attic. A mechanical drawing is always understood to be in full detail; a draft is an incomplete or unfinished drawing; a design is such a preliminary sketch as indicates the object to be accomplished or the result to be attained, and is understood to be original. One may make a drawing of any well-known mechanism, or a drawing from another man's design; but if he says, "The design is mine," he claims it as his own invention or composition. In written composition an outline gives simply the main divisions, and in the case of a sermon is often called a skeleton; a somewhat fuller suggestion of illustration, treatment, and style is given in a sketch. A lawyer's brief is a succinct statement of the main facts involved in a case, and of the main heads of his argument on points of law, with reference to authorities cited; the brief has none of the vagueness of a sketch, being sufficiently exact and complete to form, on occasion, the basis for the decision of the court without oral argument, when the case is said to be "submitted on brief." Compare DESIGN.

   Synonyms:
   brief, design, draft, outline, picture, plan, skeleton, sketch

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1. drawingnoun

   an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper

   "it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7"

   Synonyms:
   draft, draftsmanship, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draught

2. drawingnoun

   a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines

   "drawings of abstract forms"; "he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures"

   Synonyms:
   draft, draftsmanship, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draught

3. drawing, draftsmanship, draftingnoun

   the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams

   "he learned drawing from his father"

   Synonyms:
   draught, draftsmanship, draft, drafting, lottery, drawing, mechanical drawing, drawing off

4. lottery, drawingnoun

   players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots

   Synonyms:
   draft, draught, drawing, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draftsmanship

5. drawing, drawing offnoun

   act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source

   "the drawing of water from the well"

   Synonyms:
   draft, drawing, draftsmanship, lottery, drafting, drawing off, draught

6. draft, draught, drawingnoun

   the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

   Synonyms:
   draftsmanship, bill of exchange, draft, draught, drawing, draft copy, muster, drafting, rough drawing, order of payment, tipple, lottery, conscription, gulp, swig, selective service, potation, drawing off

Matched Categories

1. • Artwork
   • Representation

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pictography

   pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings, similarly to cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which also uses drawings as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. some pictograms, such as hazards pictograms, are elements of formal languages.

   the pictographs said nothing of an earthquake! dennis detected pictographs near it.

   Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2020  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. drawingnoun

   Synonyms:
   art of delineation

2. drawingnoun

   Synonyms:
   delineation, sketch, picture, plan, outline, draught

3. drawingnoun

   Synonyms:
   awe

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1. drawingnoun

   Synonyms:
   traction, hauling, pulling, graphics, diagraphics, delineation, sketch, draught, diagram, picture, limning, representation

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1. List of paraphrases for "drawing":

   draw, design, pivot, drawings, attracting, painting, sketch, tractor, appellant, circulation, attract, picture

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How to use Drawing in a sentence?

1. Robert Goldstein:

   VIB (Violence in Boston) and Monica have been fully cooperating, and their production of records remains ongoing, drawing conclusions from an incomplete factual record does not represent the fair and fully informed process a citizen deserves from its government, especially someone like Monica who has worked tirelessly on behalf of her community.

2. Charles DeCarli:

   You want to keep learning, learn a new language, develop a new skill like playing piano or guitar, drawing, painting. There's definitely good evidence learning things stimulates brain hormones that help develop our brains.

3. Robert South:

   Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

4. James Madison:

   The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

5. Stephen Colbert:

   It's predictable why these TV talkers are talking like this on the TV. They want to talk about something other than the January 6th hearings on the actual seditious insurrection that led to the deaths of multiple people, but drawing any equivalence between rioters storming our Capitol to prevent the counting of electoral ballots and a cigar-chomping toy dog is a shameful and grotesque insult to the memory of everyone who died.