Definition of Drawing

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Drawing

of Draw

The act of pulling, or attracting.

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

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

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Drawing Quotations

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD. It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school. Lucy was a kid in his school.
Paul McCartney

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
David Ogilvy

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S. Grant

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.
Layne Staley

Drawing Translations

drawing in Dutch is werkje, tekening, schets
drawing in French is dessin, dessinant
drawing in German is Zeichnung, nachziehend, Zeichnung
drawing in Italian is disegno
drawing in Latin is tractus
drawing in Norwegian is tegning
drawing in Portuguese is desenho
drawing in Spanish is dibujo
drawing in Swedish is ritning, teckning

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