Drag vs. Draw: Know the Difference

Prolonging Tediously

Artistic Creation

Computing Action

Attracting Attention

Cultural Performance

Tie in a Contest

Slow Progress

To cause to move after or toward one by applying continuous force; drag

To pull along with difficulty or effort; haul

To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading

To cause to trail along a surface, especially the ground

To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something

To move (a pointing device, such as a mouse) while pressing down on one of its buttons.

To cause to flow forth

To move (an element of a graphical display) on a computer screen using a pointing device.

To suck or take in (air, for example); inhale.

To cause to move with great effort

To require (a specified depth of water) for floating

To take or escort (a person, for example), especially in overcoming resistance or reluctance

To take or pull out

To cause to be involved in an unpleasant or difficult situation

To extract or take for one's own use

To force or bring out with great effort

To make (tea) by steeping.

To mention or introduce (an unpleasant or tedious subject)

To eviscerate; disembowel

To search or sweep the bottom of (a body of water), as with a grappling hook or dragnet

To cause to come by attracting; attract

To bring up or catch by such means.

To select or take in from a given group, type, or region

To prolong tediously

To bring to a certain condition or action; lead

(Baseball) To hit (a bunt) while taking the first steps toward first base.

To bring about deliberately; provoke

To break up, rake, or smooth out (land or dirt), especially by pulling a drag or heavy mesh

To evoke as a response; elicit

(Informal) To humiliate or shame publicly, especially on social media

To earn; gain

To trail along the ground

To withdraw (money).

To move slowly or with effort

To use (a check, for example) when paying.

To pass or proceed slowly, tediously, or laboriously

To receive on a regular basis or at a specified time

To search or dredge the bottom of a body of water

To take or receive by chance

To take part in a drag race.

To take (cards) from a dealer or central stack.

To draw on a cigarette, pipe, or cigar.

To force (a card) to be played.

Something, such as a harrow or an implement for spreading manure, that is dragged along the ground.

To end or leave (a contest) tied or undecided.

A device, such as a grappling hook, that is used for dragging under water.

To hit or strike (a billiard ball, for example) so as to give it backspin.

A heavy sledge or cart for hauling loads.

To hit (a golf ball) with a draw.

A large four-horse coach with seats inside and on top.

To make tense or taut

Something, such as a sea anchor or a brake on a fishing reel, that retards motion.

To pull back the string of (a bow).

One that impedes or slows progress; a drawback or burden

To distort the shape of

The degree of resistance involved in dragging or hauling.

To flatten, stretch, or mold (metal) by hammering or die stamping.

The retarding force exerted on a moving body by a fluid medium such as air or water.

To shape or elongate (a wire, for example) by pulling through dies.

The act of dragging, especially a slow, laborious movement.

To inscribe (a line or lines) with a pencil or other marking implement.

The scent or trail of a fox or another animal.

To make a likeness of on a surface, using mostly lines; depict with lines

Something that provides an artificial scent.

To portray in writing or speech; depict with words

(Slang) One that is obnoxiously tiresome

To formulate or devise from evidence or data at hand

A puff on a cigarette, pipe, or cigar.

To compose or write out in legal format

(Slang) A street or road

To proceed or move steadily

The clothing characteristic of one sex when worn by a member of the opposite sex

To attract customers or spectators

Of, relating to, or being a person wearing clothing characteristic of the opposite sex

To pour forth liquid

Of a fluid to something moving through it.

To cause suppuration.

(by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.

To take in a draft of air

The bottom part of a sand casting mold.

To steep in or as if in the manner of tea.

(countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.

To pull out a weapon for use.

A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.

To use or call upon part of a fund or supply

A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.

To contract or tighten

A puff on a cigarette or joint.

To conclude a contest without either side winning; tie

Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

To make a likeness with lines on a surface; sketch.

A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.

An act of drawing.

Street, as in 'main drag'.

The result of drawing.

(countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.

Something drawn, especially a lot, card, or cards drawn at random.

A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.

The arrangement of competitors in a tournament in which the matchups are made at random.

A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.

A matchup or opponent in such a tournament.

A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.

An inhalation, especially through a pipe or other smoking implement.

(metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.

One that attracts interest, customers, or spectators

(masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

The movable part of a drawbridge.

(nautical) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.

A special advantage; an edge

Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.

A contest ending without either side winning.

A pulled load.

A small natural depression that water drains into; a shallow gully.

A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

(Football) A play in which the quarterback drops back as if to pass and then runs or hands off to a running back.

Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

(Sports) A face-off.

Witch house music.

(Games) A draw shot.

The last position in a line of hikers.

(Sports) A moderate, usually controlled hook in golf.

(billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.

To move or develop something.

A device for guiding wood to the saw.

To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.

(historical) A mailcoach.

To deduce or infer.

(slang) A prison sentence of three months.

To steep, leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase.

Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.

(transitive) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc.

Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.

To take into the lungs; to inhale.

A men's party attended in women's clothing.

(used with prepositions and adverbs) To move; to come or go.

Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.

To approach, come to, or arrive at a point in time or a process.

(transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.

(transitive) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

To withdraw.

To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.

(archaic) To draw up (a document).

To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

To exert or experience force.

To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

(transitive) To drag, pull.

(graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.

(intransitive) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling.

(chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.

To pull out, unsheathe (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth).

(soccer) To hit or kick off target.

To undergo the action of pulling or dragging.

To fish with a dragnet.

(archery) To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting.

To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.

(of curtains, etc.) To close.

To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.

(of curtains, etc.) To open.

(figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.

(cards) To take the top card of a deck into hand.

(slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).

(fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.

To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.

To extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out, primarily water or blood.

To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

(figurative) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

To work as an epispastic; said of a blister, poultice, etc.

A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

(intransitive) To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc.

A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.

(analogous) To consume, for example, power.

A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

To change in size or shape.

Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).

To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch.

Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

(intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink.

The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

To attract or be attracted.

A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

To attract.

To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; - applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.

To induce (a reticent person) to speak.

To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.

(hunting) To search for game.

To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

To cause.

To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.

(intransitive) To exert an attractive force; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.

To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

(usually as draw on or draw upon) To rely on; utilize as a source.

To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

To disembowel.

To fish with a dragnet.

To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).

The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

To choose by means of a random selection process.

Something that slows or delays progress;

To select by the drawing of lots.

Something tedious and boring;

(transitive) To win in a lottery or similar game of chance.

Clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man);

(poker) To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out.

A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke);

(curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.

The act of dragging (pulling with force);

(cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

Pull, as against a resistance;

(golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.

Draw slowly or heavily;

(billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.

Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;

The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.

Move slowly and as if with great effort

The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.

To lag or linger behind;

Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.

Suck in or take (air);

The act of drawing.

Use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu;

(cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).

Walk without lifting the feet

(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.

Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

(curling) A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.

Persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting;

(geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.

Proceed for an extended period of time;

A bag of cannabis.

Pulling with Resistance

Cannabis.

In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.

(poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.

(archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.

(sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.

To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.

To pull from a sheath, as a sword.

To remove the contents of

To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.

To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.

To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.

To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.

To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.

To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.

To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.

To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; - said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.

To withdraw.

To trace by scent; to track; - a hunting term.

To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

To leave (a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn.

To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.

To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.

To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; - said of a blister, poultice, etc.

To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.

To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.

To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.

To become contracted; to shrink.

To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; - with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, draw nigh, or draw towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.

To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; - usually with on or upon.

To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.

To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

The act of drawing; draught.

A lot or chance to be drawn.

The act of drawing a lot or chance.

A drawn game or battle, etc; a tied game; a tie.

That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.

The result of drawing, or state of being drawn;

That which is drawn or is subject to drawing.

A gully that is shallower than a ravine

An entertainer who attracts large audiences;

The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided;

Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random;

A playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack;

A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer;

(American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage

Poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer;

The act of drawing or hauling something;

Cause to move along the ground by pulling;

Get or derive;

Make a mark or lines on a surface;

Make, formulate, or derive in the mind;

Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover;

Represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface;

Take liquid out of a container or well;

Give a description of;

Select or take in from a given group or region;

Elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.;

Suck in or take (air);

Move or go steadily or gradually;

Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source);

Choose at random;

In baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher;

Bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition;

Cause to flow;

Write a legal document or paper;

Engage in drawing;

Move or pull so as to cover or uncover something;

Allow a draft;

Require a specified depth for floating;

Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him;

Take in, also metaphorically;

Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes;

Thread on or as if on a string;

Pull back the sling of (a bow);

Guide or pass over something;

Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.;

Contract;

Reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die;

Steep; pass through a strainer;

Remove the entrails of;

Flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching;

Cause to localize at one point;

Pulling Towards

Selecting Randomly