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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
drawer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desk drawer
▪ I think I left my car keys in the desk drawer.
bottom drawer
chest of drawers
the bottom drawer/shelf
▪ My passport’s in the bottom drawer of my desk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bottom
▪ The other women hadn't pulled something out of a bottom drawer to come to the classes.
▪ He reached toward the bottom right-hand drawer.
▪ Black's hand found the bottom drawer, and the bottle.
▪ The bottom drawer was pulled out and empty.
▪ The bottom drawer of her desk proved to be locked, with no sign of a key.
▪ I sat in my bedroom and slipped the scrapbook out of the bottom drawer.
▪ The baby slept in the bottom drawer of the dresser: the kitten had a feather cushion.
▪ Johnnie found the tacks in the bottom drawer and, whirling on her heels, marched out of the kitchen.
small
▪ All we took from our own home was a dressing table and a small chest of drawers.
▪ The box, itself, is a treasure because it has a hinged lid and a very small drawer.
▪ This small chest of drawers is an ideal container.
▪ Molly had stood beside him and had pointed out one particularly small drawer close by the door.
▪ It is like having a large array of small drawers containing electronic components.
top
▪ The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol.
▪ She opened the top drawer of her desk.
▪ Climbing off his mattress Gimmelmann went to the top drawer of his dresser and took out a file.
▪ He pulled open the top drawer beneath.
▪ The key was in the top drawer, neatly labelled.
▪ McWilliams' two wins in the Superbike races were both top drawer performances.
▪ Spare house and garage keys in the top right hand drawer of Charles's desk.
▪ Theodora had found the spare vestry key, neatly labelled, in the top right-hand drawer of Charles Julian's desk.
■ NOUN
cutlery
▪ The pull-out cutlery drawer can be lifted out for easy unloading.
▪ He wedged the knife upright in the cutlery drawer while jamming it shut with one knee.
▪ I tell you what, while you're on your feet, get me the cutlery drawer out and the metal polish.
desk
▪ Or at a pinch he might be able to squeeze himself into the desk drawer and hide.
▪ He kept a gun in his desk drawer at the office and one night I took it out and shot him.
▪ He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
▪ Keep the paper in a desk drawer or folder.
▪ Taking his magnifying glass from a desk drawer, he fell upon the plans and scrutinized each one intently without speaking.
▪ Notebooks filled margin to margin with my tiny scrawl spill out-of the desk drawers.
▪ There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer, he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
▪ Put a copy in your locked desk drawer and another in the secret compartment of your briefcase.
dresser
▪ She opened the dresser drawer to put away the knives and spoons.
▪ When he reached into his dresser drawer that morning, Jeffrey Pyle says, all he wanted was a clean shirt.
▪ In the dresser drawer was a freshly severed hand, all bloody at the roots.
▪ She was for ever running to ransack her crowded dresser drawers, rummaging in her sewing box as she made high-pitched excited noises.
▪ Anne took a tea-towel from the dresser drawer.
▪ They kept it in their dresser drawer until the police took it away.
▪ He opens a dresser drawer and picks out a cheap hairbrush, then a pharmacy bottle containing a single capsule of Prozac.
kitchen
▪ Her daughters would giggle over the odd doodles they found in kitchen drawers or on the back shelf of the downstairs toilet.
▪ He opened it, after sorting through the kitchen drawers for a corkscrew with an assurance that annoyed Fabio.
▪ Recently, I found a roll of undeveloped film in a kitchen drawer.
▪ It is somewhere in the kitchen drawer with the 60-watt bulbs.
▪ I then removed every knife and sharp instrument from the kitchen drawer.
▪ He was about to call Bodie when he noticed a small white writing pad in the opened kitchen drawer.
sock
▪ He made piles of quarters in his sock drawer when he emptied his pockets at night.
■ VERB
close
▪ He did, smirking as he closed the drawer again.
▪ When he turned round, Lee was closing the drawer in his desk.
find
▪ Dominic sorted through the steely shapes in the table drawer until he found the bread-knife.
▪ I pat down coat pockets, dig through backpacks and open drawers until I find it.
▪ Amongst the assorted contents of the other drawers she found another small box.
▪ But then in another drawer you find something maybe even more useful.
▪ Finally, hidden under a guide to hotel services in the desk drawer, we found a loose-leaf binder with instructions.
▪ It was again the bottom drawer in which he found most of interest.
keep
▪ MacQuillan's copy was kept in a locked drawer of his desk.
▪ What some one kept in a bedside drawer.
▪ At first people kept their drawers on, then they'd lower them.
lock
▪ The receptionist took my money and locked it in a drawer of the desk, then stood up.
▪ Put a copy in your locked desk drawer and another in the secret compartment of your briefcase.
▪ Another man there taught me how to open a locked drawer.
▪ There was a locked drawer in the desk in the den, so it was the one I opened first.
▪ Then, just to show off, I took out my picks and locked the drawer after myself.
open
▪ She opened the dresser drawer to put away the knives and spoons.
▪ He next heard her walking very rapidly in her bedroom, shoeless, but thumping quickly, opening closets and drawers.
▪ He began opening the drawers of his desk in an unhurried way, looking for something.
▪ He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
▪ She opened a sofa table drawer.
▪ Another man there taught me how to open a locked drawer.
pull
▪ She pulled open a drawer to drop the note in.
▪ He pulled open the top drawer beneath.
▪ He pulled out the top drawer of the desk, where lined in rows were a dozen paper tubes.
▪ The little boy had lost interest and started pulling open the drawers of the dressing-table.
▪ He pulled out drawer after drawer, his frenzy building with each new revelation of supposedly missing clothes.
▪ I pulled the whole drawer out and checked along the back.
put
▪ The dress was put in a drawer, unfinished but not forgotten about.
▪ Just put them in his drawer?
▪ He finished shaving, wrapped his razor in a towel and put it in his drawer.
▪ He took down the picture of Uncle John and put it in the drawer of his desk.
▪ I gathered together the various sawn-up and wrenched-apart pieces of putter and put them in a drawer.
reach
▪ He had already reached into a drawer and pulled out two index cards.
▪ When he reached into his dresser drawer that morning, Jeffrey Pyle says, all he wanted was a clean shirt.
▪ I reached in my top drawer for the telephone book and hauled it out.
rummage
▪ Some one had rummaged through the drawer.
▪ Then he let her rummage through his desk drawers, rearranging them however she liked.
▪ I rummaged through my drawer for his key.
shut
▪ He opened and shut the drawers and the flap and found what he expected.
▪ He made as if to shut the drawer, saw the gun and hesitated.
take
▪ He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
▪ She went to her desk and opened a drawer from which she took a couple of bank notes.
▪ They kept it in their dresser drawer until the police took it away.
▪ Philip opened his desk drawer to take the medals out and look at them again.
▪ When the drawer was open she took out a large square package wrapped in newspaper and held it out for him.
▪ He opened the desk drawer and took out the remote-control gadget and clicked the set to life.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shut sth in the door/drawer etc
shut the door/drawer etc on sth
▪ Come in, lads, come in and shut the door on the fog.
▪ Even so, Wickham was not ready to shut the door on the possibility.
▪ Everyone has been going for national contracts and that has shut the door on the small company.
▪ It watched her, unwinking, until she reached the room behind the shop and shut the door on its crimson gaze.
▪ Madeleine grimaced after she'd shut the door on him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A white petticoat, black stockings and white drawers lay over outer clothes.
▪ From the hardware drawer in the kitchen I equipped myself with a hammer, a chisel, and a mean-looking screwdriver.
▪ He finished shaving, wrapped his razor in a towel and put it in his drawer.
▪ He glanced up as she came in and swept everything back into the drawer.
▪ He next heard her walking very rapidly in her bedroom, shoeless, but thumping quickly, opening closets and drawers.
▪ He reached toward the bottom right-hand drawer.
▪ I continued my search, working with delicacy, leaving the contents of each drawer undisturbed.
▪ In the centre of the desk, above the leg space, was a thin drawer he had overlooked.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
drawer

drawer \draw"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, draws; as:

    1. One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.
      --Shak.

    2. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.

    3. (Law) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.

  2. That which is drawn; as:

    1. A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.

    2. pl. An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.

      Chest of drawers. See under Chest.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
drawer

mid-14c., agent noun from draw (v.). Attested from 1570s in sense of a box that can be "drawn" out of a cabinet.

Wiktionary
drawer

n. 1 An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles. 2 (non-gloss definition agent noun Agent noun of draw); one who draws. 3 An artist who primarily makes drawings. 4 (context banking English) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note. 5 A barman; a man who draws the beer from the taps. 6 Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.(w Palm wine W)

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WordNet
drawer

  1. n. a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out

  2. the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else

  3. an artist skilled at drawing [syn: draftsman]

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Wikipedia
Drawer

Drawer or Drawers may refer to:

  • Drawer (furniture)
  • Payor, a person who draws a bill of exchange
  • Undergarment
  • Drawer test, a test used to detect rupture of the cruciate ligaments in the knee
  • The drawer, one of four Jaquet-Droz automata
  • Cash drawer
  • Drawer, the file system directories in the Workbench component of the Amiga computer operating system
  • Someone who engages in drawing
Drawer (furniture)

A drawer is a box-shaped container that fits into a piece of furniture in such a way that it can be drawn out horizontally to reach its contents. Drawers are built into numerous types of furniture, including cabinets, chests of drawers (bureaus) and the like.

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Usage examples of "drawer".

Offler, Om and Blind Io, all important gods, and also to Anoia, a minor goddess of Things That Stick In Drawers.

Beth jumped up, white-faced, and I told her to get the emergency Medihaler from the drawer, then took Kate into the bacchante room and laid her on the sofa.

He hung everything carefully away, moving about the bedroom in under drawers as long as Bermuda shorts and balbriggan undershirt with cap sleeves.

He banged down a button on the cash register and the little bell rang as the drawer slammed open.

And there was a rare Austrian Biedermeier chest that, when all its drawers and doors and apertures were closed, looked like a big, fat faceless clock sitting atop a curly-legged table.

Attendant to the machine were numerous hand tools and gauges and drawers full of various steel blanks, just roughly machined metal shapes intended for further manufacturing into whatever specific purpose a technician might need.

The contents of her satchel amounted to two pairs of drawers, a chemise, and the blouse and black bombazine skirt she wore to work in the garden.

The lower part of the breakfront held three rows of drawers and the drawers I could pull open also contained nothing but the same browned paper.

When he left I turned and walked through the kitchen to the dining room and the massive breakfront with the one drawer locked.

I reached for my wallet, took out the key that had opened the breakfront drawer at the Poole house, and handed it over.

Eventually she thought to fit the key into the locked breakfront drawer at the Poole house, where she found the letters.

But Maude and Alice seized the lovely brownette and dragged her down the steps, then removed all of her clothes except a pair of black silk drawers, tying her wrists and ankles with slim cords which were in turn made fast to rings sewn into the couch.

Deliberately he opened a drawer, dropped the bag of buns inside, shut it.

The small carpeted room was bare except for a gleaming chest of drawers bearing a lamp with an elaborate cut-glass shade.

He opened the drawers of the bureau and chiffonnier and strewed the contents about the room.