Noun

(en noun)

A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

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, 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.

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.

(lb) The image created by this process.

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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching ; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."