drawing
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈdrɔɪŋ/
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sorteo
- Participants eagerly await the winners to be announced in the drawings held after the ticket sales close.
- prize drawing
- lottery drawing
- hold a drawing
Every free citizen automatically took part in the sacred drawings.
- Every free citizen automatically took part in the sacred drawings.
- So the company somehow in some very complicated way is coordinating all these different chance drawings and the company becomes all powerful.
Examples
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If you're interested, you might consider liking FitDesk on Facebook because they occasionally hold drawings and offer special sales.
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At the end of the day, there was a reception with more drinks, snacks, and prize drawings.
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Grand Prize Drawing: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: One (1) Grand Prize for the Grand Prize Drawing will be awarded.
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Another event that added to the excitement in the exhibit hall was the door prize drawings.
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One comment per stop will be eligible for the drawings (so be sure to answer my questions!).
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Door prize drawings throughout the day with the grand prize drawing at 2:45 p.m.
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Bonnie Plants will award a $1,000 education scholarship to each state's winner selected in random drawings by each state's agriculture director.
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The charity held a raffle with generous prizes, and the winners will be determined by a drawing on Saturday.
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During the community festival, there will be multiple drawings to win gift cards for local businesses.
Synonyms
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2.3
A game where people buy numbered tickets and winners are chosen by chance
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4.1
An act of choosing someone or something by chance
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4.4
A game where players mark numbers on a card and hope to win money
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3.7
A competition where people buy tickets and one person wins the money
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3.3
To offer an item as a prize by selling numbered tickets
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5.7
A contest where people enter to win a prize by chance
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3.6
A way to decide by chance using marked items like straws
Idioms
- Informal
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4.2
Start again from the beginning when a plan or idea fails
- Informal
To begin a plan or project again from the start after a failure
Compounds
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3.6
A picture made only with lines that shows the shape of things without color or shading
- Specialized
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5.6
A drawing that uses simple symbols to show parts of a machine or electrical circuit
- Specialized
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4.4
Skill in making exact plans and pictures for machines and buildings
- Specialized
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9.0
Extra international money from the IMF to help countries build foreign currency reserves and keep their exchange rates stable
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A picture or model that shows the inside of something by removing part of its outside
- Specialized
A machine that pulls metal through a small hole to make wire or rods
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A detailed measured picture that shows a machine or part for making it
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A picture that uses thin watercolor layers to make soft shades and depth
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Drawing comes from the verb draw, which also meant 'to pull out' or 'take out'. Think of pulling a name from a hat: a drawing is when winners are 'pulled out' by chance.