What does Drawn mean?

Definitions for Drawn
drɔndrawn

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, wornadjective

    showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

    "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens

  2. drawnadjective

    having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut

    "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Drawnparticiple

    Etymology: from draw.

    An army was drawn together of near six thousand horse. Cla.

    So lofty was the pile a Parthian bow,
    With vigour drawn, must put the shaft below. John Dryden, Fab.

    If we make a drawn game of it, or procure but moderate advantages, every British heart must tremble. Addison.

    What, art thou drawn among those heartless hinds? William Shakespeare.

    A curtain drawn, presented to our view
    A town besieg’d. John Dryden, Tyran. Love.

    There’s no more faith in thee than in a stoned prune; no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox. William Shakespeare.

    The Irish will better be drawn to the English, than the English to the Irish government. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

    As this friendship was drawn together by fear on both sides, so it was not like to be more durable than was the fear. John Hayward.

ChatGPT

  1. drawn

    Drawn refers to several concepts: 1. In art, it refers to the representation of someone or something via lines that are produced by writing, printing, sketching, outlining, or tracing on a surface, particularly with a pencil, pen, or other similar tool. 2. In terms of extraction or pulling out, drawn signifies the action of something or someone dragged, stretched, or pulled out from a specific location. It could also represent the prolonged process of something like a conversation or event. 3. In competitions or games such as lotteries, sports or game fixtures, drawn implies the selection or arrangement of participants or teams at random. 4. In emotions, it is often used to suggest someone being attracted or moved towards someone or something, usually due to curiosity or interest. 5. More broadly, it can also refer to the action of moving in a specific direction or achieve some form of closure. 6. In context of closing or shutting, like curtains or blinds, drawn is used to indicate completely closed or shut scenario. The meaning highly depends on the context in which it is used.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Drawn

    of Draw

  2. Drawn

    see Draw, v. t. & i

Wikidata

  1. Drawn

    Drawn is the ninth studio album of Filipino singer-actress Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, released on August 1, 1998. The album was recorded from 1997 to 1998. This is the first album that Velasquez ventured into soul and R&B music coming from her previous Asian-pop appeal. It was executively produced by Mark J. Feist of the MJF Company and co-produced by Viva Records. The album is distributed in the Philippines by Viva Music Group. Mark J. Feist also arranged all the tracks, wrote & co-wrote five songs and played instruments throughout. The album was certified 7x Platinumby the Philippine Association of the Record Industry for sales of 240,000 units in the Philippines.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Drawn

    drawn, part. and adj. from Draw, esp. in 'a drawn game or battle,' undecided.—Drawn and quartered, disembowelled and cut into quarters.—At daggers drawn, openly hostile.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Drawn' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1357

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Drawn' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2251

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Drawn in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Drawn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Drawn in a Sentence

  1. Dyan Cannon:

    It’s been a challenge — it’s really been challenging, but I ’m feeling very good that John Doyle liked it enough that John Doyle was drawn to it. I think John Doyle ’ll help us make something I think people will enjoy.

  2. Steve Vladeck:

    The court's summary rulings today in a pair of redistricting cases from North Carolina seem to drive home that the justices are not in a hurry to reconsider claims of partisan gerrymandering after sidestepping two major cases earlier this term, but that they will continue to pay close attention to claims that district lines were drawn due to race-based considerations, of course, whether Justice( Anthony) Kennedy's successor will tip the scales in favor or against these claims more categorically remains to be seen, so today's decisions are perhaps best understood as putting things into a holding pattern.

  3. Debra DeShong:

    The Federal Court is an appropriate venue for these cases and provides those affected with the opportunity for a timely resolution, years of drawn-out litigation and hearings are not in the best interest of victims, the community and those still healing.

  4. Tim Benz:

    As far as actions off the field and what priorities are, I think that line was drawn a long time ago with any number of people you could point to that were brought back to help teams win games after various levels of transgression, whether it was Kareem Hunt or Michael Vick, or when Ben Roethlisberger was accused of sexual misconduct twice and was never actually charged with any crimes, Kareem Hunt still got suspended for six games and was brought back and went on to have a career that Kareem Hunt or Michael Vick just honored Kareem Hunt for for an entire year in Pittsburgh.

  5. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

    What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

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