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say it: DRAW-ing
drawing is a noun meaning "an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines
“drawings of abstract forms”
“he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures”
the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams
“he learned drawing from his father”
players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source
“the drawing of water from the well”
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 drawing 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.