Drawing vs Making - What's the difference?
drawing | making |
A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
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The act of producing such a picture.
Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat).
A small portion of tea for steeping.
* 1853 , Alice Cary, Clovernook
The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
Process of growth or development.
As verbs the difference between drawing and making
is that drawing is while making is .As nouns the difference between drawing and making
is that drawing is a picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper while making is the act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.drawing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
- the tea-kettle was presently steaming like an engine, and an extra large "drawing of tea" was steeping on the hearth.
Derived terms
* drawing board * technical drawingSee also
* sketch * drafter * draftsmanAnagrams
*making
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) making, from (etyl) , (etyl) machunga.Noun
(en noun)- ''As a child he didn’t seem like a genius in the making .
Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)- Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn eat. - Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas