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Definition of draw noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

draw

noun
 
/drɔː/
 
/drɔː/
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    choosing

  1. (US English also drawing)
     [usually singular] draw (for something) the act of choosing something, for example the winner of a prize or the teams who play each other in a competition, usually by taking pieces of paper, etc. out of a container without being able to see what is written on them
    • the draw for the second round of the Champions League
    • The draw for the raffle takes place on Saturday.
    • I’m now going to call on the President to make the draw.
  2. (North American English usually drawing)
     a competition in which the winners are chosen in a draw
    • a prize draw
    compare lottery

    3. sports/games

  3. (especially British English) a game in which both teams or players finish with the same number of points
    • The match ended in a two-all draw.
    • He managed to hold Smith to a draw (= to stop him from winning when he seemed likely to do so).
    • They could only manage a goalless draw at Upton Park.
    compare tieTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • goalless
    • scoreless
    • one-all
    • …
    verb + draw
    • end in
    • earn
    • get
    • …
    preposition
    • draw against
    • draw with
    See full entry
  4. (British English) a sports match for which the teams or players are chosen in a draw
    • Liverpool have an away draw against Manchester United.
  5. [usually singular] a set of matches for which the teams or players are chosen in a draw
    • There are only two seeded players left in the top half of the draw.
    6.

    attraction

  6. a person, a thing or an event that attracts a lot of people synonym attraction
    • She is currently one of the biggest draws on the Irish music scene.
    7.

    smoke

  7. an act of breathing in the smoke from a cigarette synonym drag
    • She took one last draw from the cigarette.
    8. Word OriginOld English dragan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dragen and German tragen, also to draught.
Idioms
be quick/fast on the draw
  1. (informal) to be quick to understand or react in a new situation
    • You can't fool him—he's always quick on the draw.
  2. to be quick at pulling out a gun in order to shoot it
the luck of the draw
  1. the fact that chance decides something, in a way that you cannot control
    • To a large extent the life you have depends on who your parents were; it’s just the luck of the biological draw.
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