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Drawing vs Schematic - What's the difference?

drawing | schematic |

As nouns the difference between drawing and schematic

is that drawing is a picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper while schematic is a drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level.

As a verb drawing

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective schematic is

represented simply.

drawing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= 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 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 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 drawing

    Related terms

    * draft * drawer * drawn work

    See also

    * sketch * drafter * draftsman

    Anagrams

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    schematic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • represented simply
  • sketchy, incomplete
  • * 1902 , , Varieties of Religious Experience ,
    • Dr. Starbuck gives an interesting, and it seems to me a true, account -- so far as conceptions so schematic can claim truth at all...
  • relating to a schema
  • *
    • Given the terminology we have introduced here, we can say that all of the bracketed phrases in (3) above are of the schematic form (4) below:
    (4)    Specifier + Head + Complement
    Now, we have already argued in the case of Noun Phrases that a Head Noun together with its Complement form an N-bar; and that this N-bar together with its Specifier ( = Determiner) forms an N-double-bar.

    Noun

    (wikipedia schematic) (en noun)
  • A drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level.
    • I'll have to study the schematics for the new integrated circuit before I can create a good layout.

    Synonyms

    * diagram

    Anagrams

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