drawing

drawing
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. picture, sketch, plan; delineation. See painting.
- drawing card
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [The practice or study of drawing]
Syn. sketching, design, illustration, representation, rendering, tracing, limning, etching, draftsmanship, commercial art, graphic art; see also art 2 .
Kinds of drawing include: life, line, figure, architectural, mechanical, isometric, scale, freehand, pen and ink, charcoal, red charcoal, pencil, black and white, chiaroscuro, computer-aided design, CAD; see picture 3 , representation .
2. [A work produced by drawing]
Syn. sketch, likeness, study; see design 1 , picture 3 , representation .
3. [A raffle]
Syn. lottery, sweepstakes, pool; see raffle .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
1. picture illustration, sketch, diagram, design, outline, pen and ink, depiction, portrayal, study, work of art, figure, caricature, draft.
2. lottery selection.

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  • drawing — /draw ing/, n. 1. the act of a person or thing that draws. 2. a graphic representation by lines of an object or idea, as with a pencil; a delineation of form without reference to color. 3. a sketch, plan, or design, esp. one made with pen, pencil …   Universalium

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