Word Type
Draw can be a verb or a noun.
draw used as a verb:
- To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.
- To drag, pull.
- To pull out (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth).
- To attract.
"The citizens were afraid the casino would draw an undesirable element to their town." - To deduce or infer.
"He tried to draw a conclusion from the facts." - (usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
"She had to draw upon her experience to solve the problem" - To disembowel.
"He will be hanged, drawn and quartered." - To pull back the arrow in preparation for shooting.
- (of curtains, etc.) To close.
"You should draw the curtains at night." - (of drinks, especially tea) To leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase.
"Tea is much nicer if you let it draw for three minutes before pouring." - To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
"Both these teams will draw if nobody scores soon." - To consume, as power.
"The circuit draws three hundred watts." - To determine the result of a lottery.
"The winning lottery numbers were drawn every Tuesday." - To take the top card of a deck into hand.
"At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card." - To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out.
"Jill has four diamonds, she'll try to draw for a flush."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
draw used as a noun:
- The result of a game in which neither side has won; a tie.
"The game ended in a draw." - The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
"The draw is on Saturday." - The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out. Different from a tie.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade
- A shot that lands in play without hitting another stone out, as opposed to a takeout shot.
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
"He scrambled down the dusty draw, the loose rocks hampering his progress" - cannabis.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A hand which is unlikely the best hand, but which has a chance to become one with future card
"Jill is on a draw: she has four diamonds, and needs one more for a flush."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is draw?
- Verb usage: The citizens were afraid the casino would draw an undesirable element to their town.
- Verb usage: I was drawn to her.
- Verb usage: He tried to draw a conclusion from the facts.
- Verb usage: She had to draw upon her experience to solve the problem
- Verb usage: He will be hanged, drawn and quartered.
- Verb usage: You should draw the curtains at night.
- Verb usage: Tea is much nicer if you let it draw for three minutes before pouring.
- Verb usage: Both these teams will draw if nobody scores soon.
- Verb usage: The circuit draws three hundred watts.
- Verb usage: The winning lottery numbers were drawn every Tuesday.
- Verb usage: At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card.
- Verb usage: Jill has four diamonds, she'll try to draw for a flush.
- Noun usage: The game ended in a draw.
- Noun usage: The draw is on Saturday.
- Noun usage: He scrambled down the dusty draw, the loose rocks hampering his progress
- Noun usage: Jill is on a draw: she has four diamonds, and needs one more for a flush.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of draw are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of draw, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
