drawing

«drawing» in Mova's school dictionary: a picture made with a pencil, pen or crayon, mostly with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a drawing, drawings; drawing as an activity); verb form (drawing, from draw)

meaning for a pupil

1) A drawing is a picture made with a pencil, pen or crayon, mostly with lines. tree →

2) Drawing is the art or activity of making pictures like this. tree →

3) Drawing is also the «-ing» form of «draw», as in drawing a line, drawing the curtains or drawing a raffle ticket. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school art, maths and science pupils make drawings: labelled drawings of plants, drawings of shapes, scale drawings. In stories a drawing may be a clue or a gift. Phrases: «a drawing of», «a scale drawing», «drawing a line», «drawing near» (coming closer), «drawing the curtains».

examples

• I did a drawing of my cat. tree →
• Drawing is my favourite lesson. tree →
• Make a labelled drawing of a flower. tree →
• We pinned our drawings on the wall. tree →
• She is drawing a triangle with a ruler. tree →
• The day was drawing to a close. tree →
• Dad is drawing the curtains because it is dark. tree →
• The winner of the raffle is being drawn now, and they are drawing the tickets from a hat. tree →

note

As a noun it is countable (a drawing) or uncountable (I love drawing). Do not confuse «drawing» with «drawer» (a box in a desk). In maths a scale drawing keeps all lengths in the same ratio, for example one centimetre for one metre.

In the corpora

• A parent showing your drawing to everyone at work is proud of you; parents show off their children because it makes them happy.
• An art teacher wants to see your own drawing, wobbly lines and all, not a traced copy.
• 3D pavement art uses perspective tricks so a chalk drawing looks deep from one spot; chalk washes away in the rain.
• Many artists and animators still draw by hand even when they also use computers and AI, because drawing trains how you see.
• Hands are one of the hardest things to draw; drawing your own hand often, starting with simple shapes, helps.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «drawing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.