Definition of drawing
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Drawing (n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn..
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Calking ::
Calking (n.) The act or process of making seems tight, as in ships, or of furnishing with calks, as a shoe, or copying, as a drawing..
Blackboard ::
Blackboard (n.) A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools..
Transfer ::
Transfer (n.) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts..
Expansion ::
Expansion (n.) The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction..
Scale ::
Scale (n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale..
Approximation ::
Approximation (n.) The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating..
Strappado ::
Strappado (n.) A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated..
Extraction ::
Extraction (n.) The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture..
Leg ::
Leg (n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing..
Figure ::
Figure (n.) The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble..
Throstle ::
Throstle (n.) A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise..
Charcoal ::
Charcoal (v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement..
Die ::
Die (n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing..
Parlor ::
Parlor (n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor..
Lithotint ::
Lithotint (n.) A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink..
Restive ::
Restive (a.) Unwilling to go on; obstinate in refusing to move forward; stubborn; drawing back.
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