drawn
part of speech
verb (draw, draws, drew, drawn, drawing); adjective (drawn = looking tired or worried)
meaning for a pupil
1) Drawn is a form of draw: to make a picture with a pencil or pen. tree →
2) Drawn means pulled: «a cart drawn by a horse», «the curtains were drawn». tree →
3) Drawn means taken out: «two balls are drawn from the bag». tree →
4) A game that is drawn ends with the same score for both sides. tree →
5) A drawn face looks tired or worried. tree →
sense in the lessons
pictures or shapes drawn; things drawn out of a bag; in maths: shapes drawn with a ruler, graphs drawn to show data, cards drawn in probability; in sport: a drawn match (a tie); in stories: a coach drawn by horses; phrases: «drawn to» (attracted to), «drawn out» (too long)
examples
- She has drawn 6 circles. tree →
- A line is drawn 5 cm long. tree →
- Two balls are drawn from the bag. tree →
- How many pictures were drawn in all? tree →
- The graph was drawn on squared paper. tree →
- The carriage was drawn by four white horses. tree →
- The football match was drawn 1–1. tree →
- The curtains were drawn, so the room was dark. tree →
- She was drawn to the bright colours of the painting. tree →
- She is sometimes depicted sitting in a chariot, drawn by lions. tree →
note
Drawing pictures adds; drawing out of a bag takes away from what is in the bag. Irregular: draw, drew, (has) drawn. Not «drawed». A drawn match = a draw: neither team wins.
In the corpora
- Classic cartoons were drawn by hand, often on clear sheets called cels.
- Many TV cartoons are written in one country and drawn in another, often in South Korea, Japan or the Philippines.
- Jethro has drawn two dads, a sister and a dog.
- Ruaridh has drawn his nan, because he lives with her.
- Two minutes later the twins have drawn a rainbow on the wall.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «drawn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.