(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.
Raffle
Definition:
(v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.
(v.) A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
(v. i.) To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.
(v. t.) To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
(2) The vascular mantles of the endochondral layer of labyrinthine bone in dog (Canis f. intermedius Woldrich) and monkey (Pithecus fascicularis Raffl.)
(3) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
(4) On transforming from their original round shape, the induced cells displayed the well-developed microvilli, spindles, or raffles that are characteristic of macrophages or dendrocytes.
(5) Well I am being uber-careful but there are SO many secrets around that it is quite hard to keep track, Oik says to forget the Black & White Ball even happened, especially the peerage raffle & I think it is still secret about Chope and Bone, because Bone has not told Mrs Bone they are in love yet & it is deffo a total secret about my shop party because of the whole not-being-allowed-to-capitalise thing?
(6) The response rate in the 1762 who were told about the raffle was no higher than for 950 subjects who served as controls.
(7) The event included a barbecue, drinks and a raffle, with prizes of vodka, champagne and a biography of Vladimir Putin .
(8) TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The classic Singapore Sling cocktail at the Raffles hotel.
(9) "Mildly ischaemic" cells featured raffled and invaginated cell surfaces, reduced matrix density, disorientated mitochondrial cristae due to swelling, and giant mitochondria.
(10) At a 2003 charity gala for the Florida-based Unicorn Children’s Foundation a misunderstanding over a raffle prize announcement resulted in a police investigation that lasted nearly a month.
(11) Then, in February 1953, Littlewood and Raffles rented the Theatre Royal, Angel Lane, E15, for £20 a week, a dilapidated palace of varieties reeking of cat urine.
(12) Today’s Singapore is far more precisely the result of Lee Kuan Yew’s vision than the Manchester of the East ever was of Sir Stamford Raffles’,” wrote science fiction author William Gibson in Wired magazine in 1993, three years after Yew stepped down.
(13) Exhausted and miserable, she walked out at the crowning moment when she and Raffles had managed to buy the theatre.
(14) But the second world war intervened and he had to go to the local Raffles College instead, where he acquired some basic economics, and met his future wife, Kwa Geok Choo.
(15) Obama had made an impromptu visit to Stonehenge , just a mile from Janice and James Raffle's home.
(16) Fashion parades, balls, raffles, and weekly deductions from thousands of workers' pay packets were integral to success of the Cancer Appeal-a-thon in the Illawarra region.
(17) We ran a letter-writing campaign, a big fundraising effort; coffee mornings, raffles, a black-tie ball.
(18) Her relationship with McColl was over and Gerry Raffles, handsome and nine years younger, had to her amazement, fallen wholeheartedly in love with her: their bond was to last more than 30 years.
(19) The gastric mucosa changes induced by enterogastric reflux remain to interest, thus, 20 patients with surgical duodenal ulcer disease were studied, and after raffle, they consisted in 2 groups of 10 patients each, in which were performed antrectomy and truncal vagotomy, with reestablishment of the gastrointestinal continuity, in the group I, through a Billroth II gastrojejunostomy, and, in the group II, by a Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy.
(20) Janice Raffle took to Twitter, saying: "I can see president Obama!