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say it: draw
draw is a verb and noun meaning "cause to move by pulling". It carries 45 recorded senses.
make, formulate, or derive in the mind
“I draw a line here”
“draw a conclusion”
“draw parallels”
“make an estimate”
“What do you make of his remarks?”
select or take in from a given group or region
“The participants in the experiment were drawn from a representative population”
elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
“The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans”
“The comedian drew a lot of laughter”
bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
“She was drawn to despair”
“The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum”
“The session was drawn to a close”
pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
“in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes”
direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
“Her good looks attract the stares of many men”
“The ad pulled in many potential customers”
“This pianist pulls huge crowds”
“The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers”
flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
“draw steel”
a gully that is shallower than a ravine
an entertainer who attracts large audiences
“he was the biggest drawing card they had”
a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack
“he got a pair of kings in the draw”
a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
“he took lessons to cure his hooking”
poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer
“he played only draw and stud”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for draw come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.