to draw
- verb
- /drษ/
- Before starting her project, she decided to draw the wooden beads onto the string in a pattern.
Examples
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To create a beautiful bracelet, you need to draw the beads onto the cord in a specific order.
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Continue to alternate starting points for the vertical lines drawn with the toothpick.
Blog text (19) -
A knitting needle is drawn from a row of red stitches on the nearly finished jumper.
Fiction book (2001) -
Ignoring Dougal's fuming, he drew a short string of white beads from his p262 sporran.
Fiction book (1991) -
She carefully draw the colorful beads onto a long string for her necklace.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
To kill someone by tying limbs to four horses and pulling them apart, or to punish very harshly
- Offensive
To threaten or kill someone by hanging, cutting their body open and dividing it into four parts
- Informal
To end up by chance with an unpleasant task or in a worse position
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To pull tissue or skin to the side to hold a wound open during surgery
- Literature
To stop or slow progress by controlling it, like a rider pulling the straps that guide a horse
Compounds
- Jargon
A football play where the quarterback fakes a pass then hands the ball to a running back
A type of poker where players discard some cards and get new ones to improve their hand
Surface Forms
Etymology
Draw meaning to thread beads comes from the idea 'to pull' them onto a string, so you draw beads by pulling them along the thread.