(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
(n.) The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Example Sentences:
(1) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
(2) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(3) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(4) We are drawing back the curtains to let light into the innermost corridors of power."
(5) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(6) Human figure drawings of 12 pediatric oncology patients were significantly smaller in height, width, and area than were drawings of 12 school children and 12 pediatric general surgery patients paired for sex and age.
(7) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(8) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(9) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(10) The patient with the right posterior lesion could not recognize handwriting, was prosopagnosic and topographagnosic, but had no difficulty in reading, lipreading, or in recognizing stylized drawings.
(11) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
(12) The record includes postoperative drawings of the intraoperative field by Dr. Cushing, a sketch by Dr. McKenzie illustrating the postoperative sensory examination, and pre- and postoperative photographs of the patient.
(13) This paper, which draws on the author's experience as chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), describes what is known about the characteristics of homeless persons and the causes of homelessness, and about the health status of homeless persons, which is often not very good (but not significantly worse, it would appear, than that of other low-income persons).
(14) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(15) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(16) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(17) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
(18) On examples from their own practice the authors draw attention to the that the diagnosis and treatment of this disease is not always as straightforward as might appear from the literature.
(19) Consequently, assaying the enterobacteriaceae contents is not suitable to draw any reliable conclusions upon the salmonellae contents of fishmeal.
(20) Taken together, her procedural memory on learning tasks, such as "Tower of Hanoi" and mirror drawing, was intact.
Lottery
Definition:
(n.) A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.
(n.) Allotment; thing allotted.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This will be not only be a postcode lottery, but a States vs Europe lottery and that would be madness."
(2) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
(3) Because there is a small number of us, we are able to give a lot of personalised care and attention.” However, she adds: “The placements can be a bit of a lottery.
(4) "We've got two years of funding from the National Lottery, which takes us to next May.
(5) Hume, whose grantmaking credentials include leading a £500m cancer and palliative care grant programme for the Big Lottery Fund, refutes the notion that hospices will lose out.
(6) His company, the People's Lottery, may now pursue legal action to recoup some or all of the £30m it claims it spent on the bid.
(7) And those who have won out in the housing lottery – unless they have no children, no relatives and care for no friends in situations somewhat different from their own – they, too, should still have worries.
(8) Almost a thousand local community health projects have now been funded through The Health Lottery, another of our businesses.
(9) The Cavaliers wanted no part of the draft lottery this year as they hoped to take advantage of an almost historically weak Eastern Conference field and make their first playoff appearance since the LeBron James era.
(10) "Penalties are a lottery, but we should still be disappointed with our execution of them," said Fletcher.
(11) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
(12) 1984: Virgin Atlantic Airways formed; 1986: Virgin Group floats on stock market (bought back two years later); 1987: Branson crosses Atlantic in balloon; 1998: Branson invests in railways; 1999 he launches Virgin Mobile and is knighted; 2000: he fails to win National Lottery bid Family: Wife Joan, children Holly, 21, and Sam, 16 Hobbies: Ballooning, sailing and the occasional publicity stunt.
(13) That is not a postcode lottery – it is… a postcode democracy."
(14) He said the Arts Council would direct applicants to Lottery funding where appropriate.
(15) "Mr Jacob you have won the Nigerian lottery," says Simon McMahon.
(16) That view about Branson influenced the strange events following the original award of the lottery licence in 2000 to Branson.
(17) Challenged by Camelot in court for her conduct in selecting Branson, the lottery regulator was forced to resign and the competition was re-opened.
(18) 'Penalty shootouts: they're a lottery' Penalty shootouts are actually very little about chance.
(19) In August, after several delays, the commission named the People's Lottery as preferred bidder and excluded Camelot from the running.
(20) "The current postcode lottery is simply not acceptable," Kreft said.