The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drawing \Draw"ing\, n.
The act of pulling, or attracting.
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.
The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
(Textile Manuf.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
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The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Note: Drawing is used adjectively or as the first part of compounds in the sense of pertaining to drawing, for drawing (in the sense of pulling, and of pictorial representation); as, drawing master or drawing-master, drawing knife or drawing-knife, drawing machine, drawing board, drawing paper, drawing pen, drawing pencil, etc.
A drawing of tea, a small portion of tea for steeping.
Drawing knife. See in the Vocabulary.
Drawing paper (Fine Arts), a thick, sized paper for draughtsman and for water-color painting.
Drawing slate, a soft, slaty substance used in crayon drawing; -- called also black chalk, or drawing chalk.
Free-hand drawing, a style of drawing made without the use of guiding or measuring instruments, as distinguished from mechanical or geometrical drawing; also, a drawing thus executed.
WordNet
n. paper that is specially prepared for use in drafting
Usage examples of "drawing paper".
Though Tess isn't in a mood to draw, I crank up the height of one of the stools, adjust a tabletop easel for her drawing paper, and put a stick of vine charcoal into her hand.
No sooner was he seated on his stable camp chair, no sooner was he holding cardboard and drawing paper on his bursting left thigh, no sooner had Harras as Pluto taken up his new pose, lying with outstretched forepaws and sharply alert neck, no sooner had Amsel's brush steeped itself in India ink, than the door to the yard spat out first August Pokriefke, the glue cook, then the glue stirrer's daughter.
He could then project it onto a piece of drawing paper and draw over the photo.
Instead, she sighed loudly and shook her head as if displeased with what she was getting down on the drawing paper.
The Secret Edict turned out to be a large folded-up sheet of drawing paper divided into four sections, in each of which was a picture.
I said softly as Nick straightened my black drawing paper by tapping the ends on the counter.
With care she pulled the package free, a lady's fine linen handkerchief knotted with a note scribbled on a scrap of Francesca's own drawing paper.
Sellers and Harry sat down and began to roughly map out the city of Napoleon on a large piece of drawing paper.