A picture made with lines, usually using a pencil, pen, or charcoal, rather than paint. It can also mean the act of making such a picture, or the process of choosing something by pulling lots.
From the verb 'draw', from Old English 'dragan' meaning 'to pull, drag'. The sense of 'drawing' lines on a surface grew from the idea of pulling a tool across it. The meaning of 'drawing lots' comes from pulling marked items from a container.
To draw is literally to 'pull' marks out of nothing—your hand drags a pencil and a world appears. The same verb covers sketching art and 'drawing conclusions', suggesting that thinking itself is a kind of picture-making. Language treats ideas as things we sketch in the mind.
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