drawing
Definition of drawing:
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part of speech: noun
The art of representing objects by lines drawn, shading, etc.: the distribution of prizes, as at a lottery: a picture or representation made with a pencil, pen, crayon, etc. Drawings are classifiable under the names of pencil, pen, chalk, sepia, or water- color drawings from the materials used for their execution, and also into geometrical or linear and mechanical drawings, in which instruments, such as compasses, rulers, scales, are used, and free- hand drawings, in which no instrument is used to guide the hand.
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part of speech: noun
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Common misspellings:
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- drawring (4.5%)
- drawign (2.2%)
- drawind (2.2%)
- darwing (9.0%)
- draing (5.6%)
- drwaing (23.6%)
- draving (1.1%)
- drowing (16.9%)
- dawing (2.2%)
- drawning (4.5%)
- drawiing (5.6%)
- crawing (1.1%)
- drawin (4.5%)
- drwing (9.0%)
- draiwing (2.2%)
- drawaing (2.2%)
- drawfing (1.1%)
- dwrawing (2.2%)
Usage examples for drawing:
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The day's work was drawing to a close.
"The Eye of Osiris" – R. Austin Freeman -
In this drawing room his mother had died three months before.
"Resurrection" – Maude, Louise Shanks -
Drawing close to the man, as the party proceeded without taking notice of the application, he hastily asked, " Are you a Polander?"
"Thaddeus of Warsaw" – Jane Porter
