drawer
part of speech
noun (drawer, drawers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A drawer is a box in a table, desk or cupboard that slides in and out, for keeping things. tree →
2) A drawer is also a person who draws pictures (rare). tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah, a "drawer of water" is a person who does the humble work of carrying water. Interpretation: The phrase, together with "hewer of wood", shows that even the lowest workers stood before God in the covenant. In the primary lessons: a container: things in each drawer; socks taken out of a drawer; in everyday life: a sock drawer, a kitchen drawer for spoons, a desk drawer for pencils; in safety: keep sharp knives and medicines in closed drawers away from small children; phrases: «top drawer» (the best), «chest of drawers»
examples
- your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water; (Torah DEU.29.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondmen, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.' (Prophets JOS.9.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the princes said concerning them: 'Let them live'; so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had spoken concerning them. (Prophets JOS.9.21, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, unto this day, in the place which He should choose. (Prophets JOS.9.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- Each drawer holds 8 shirts. tree →
- The desk has 3 drawers. tree →
- There are 10 socks in the drawer. tree →
- How many pencils are in 4 drawers? tree →
- The spoons are in the top drawer. tree →
- She keeps her socks in the bottom drawer of the chest of drawers. tree →
- Close the drawer so nobody trips. tree →
- He found an old letter at the back of the drawer. tree →
- It is quite like tidying up drawers. tree →
note
Equal groups. Trap in «socks from a drawer without looking»: think of the worst case. Pronounced like «draw», one syllable in UK speech. Plural: drawers. A «chest of drawers» is one piece of furniture.
In the corpora
- Grandma's best silver spoons come out of the drawer dull and almost black, even though nobody has used them.
- "Not the sharpest knife in the drawer" means not very clever; it is a humorous phrase.
- Pull drawers gently and only partly, because a heavy drawer can fall out and many open drawers can tip the chest.
- Many young children are poisoned each year by medicines found in bags, drawers and on tables.
- Tom found matches in a drawer and struck one to see the flame.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drawer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.