drawing
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈdrɔɪŋ/
- Participants eagerly await the winners to be announced in the drawings held after the ticket sales close.
- prize drawing
- lottery drawing
- hold a drawing
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- 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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4.4
A game where players mark numbers on a card and hope to win money
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5.7
A contest where people enter to win a prize by chance
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4.1
An act of choosing someone or something by chance
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3.3
To offer an item as a prize by selling numbered tickets
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3.6
A way to decide by chance using marked items like straws
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A competition where people buy tickets and one person wins the money
Idioms
- Informal
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4.2
Start again from the beginning when a plan or idea fails
- Informal
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4.0
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
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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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Skill in making exact plans and pictures for machines and buildings
- Specialized
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A detailed measured picture that shows a machine or part for making it
- Specialized
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A picture that uses thin watercolor layers to make soft shades and depth
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5.8
A picture or model that shows the inside of something by removing part of its outside
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A machine that pulls metal through a small hole to make wire or rods
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.