Draw, drawing, draws, or drawn most commonly refer to: *

Draw (terrain) A draw, sometimes known as a re-entrant in orienteering, is a terrain feature formed by two parallel ridges or Spur (mountain), spurs with low ground in between them. The long area of downward sloping low ground itself is the draw, and it is def ...

, a terrain feature formed by two parallel ridges or spurs with low ground in between them * Draw (tie), in a competition, where competitors achieve equal outcomes *

Drawing Drawing is a Visual arts, visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, some ...

, the imparting or production of an image on a surface * To select, pull, or take: ** A part of a

card game A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary). Countless card games exist, including famil ...

, to "draw" a card ** A part of a

lottery A lottery (or lotto) is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize. Some governments outlaw lotteries, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find som ...

, to "draw" a lottery number ** A part of

venipuncture In medicine, venipuncture or venepuncture is the process of obtaining intravenous access for the purpose of venous Sampling (medicine)#blood, blood sampling (also called ''phlebotomy'') or intravenous therapy. In healthcare, this procedure is p ...

, to "draw" a blood sample ** The act of wielding a weapon by removing it from a

scabbard A scabbard is a sheath for holding a sword, dagger, knife, or similar edged weapons. Rifles and other long guns may also be stored in scabbards by horse riders for transportation. Military cavalry and cowboys had scabbards for their saddle ring ...

, to "draw" a knife, dagger, or sword ** The act of wielding a weapon by removing it from a

holster A handgun holster is a device used to hold or restrict the undesired movement of a handgun, most commonly in a location where it can be easily withdrawn for immediate use. Holsters are often attached to a belt or waistband, but they may be atta ...

, to "draw" a handgun Draw and related terms may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* ''Drawn'' (album), a 1998 album by Regina Velasquez * ''Draw'', the 2001 debut album of Matthew Jay * "The Draw", a 2013 song by

Bastille (band) Bastille are an English indie pop band formed in 2010. The group began as a solo project by lead vocalist Dan Smith (singer), Dan Smith, but later expanded to include keyboardist Kyle Simmons, bassist and guitarist Will Farquarson and drummer ...

* "Draw", a 2022 song by Ichillin'

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* '' Draw!'', a 1984 comedy-western film * ''Drawn'' (series), a video game series by Big Fish Studios

Computing and technology

* Direct read after write (DRAW) * OpenOffice.org Draw, a vector graphics editor *

Rendering (computer graphics) Rendering is the process of generating a physically-based rendering, photorealistic or Non-photorealistic rendering, non-photorealistic image from input data such as 3D models. The word "rendering" (in one of its senses) originally meant the ...

, sometimes referred to as drawing

People

Stefanie Draws Stefanie Draws (born 16 October 1989 in Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpo ...

(born 1989), German footballer

Sports and games

Bow draw A bow draw in archery is the method or technique of pulling back the bowstring to store energy for the bow (weapon), bow to shoot an arrow. The most common method in modern target archery is the Mediterranean draw, which has long been the usual me ...

, in archery, the act of pulling back the string of a bow before loosing an arrow *

Draw (chess) In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, in which neither player wins. Draws are codified by various rules of chess including stalemate (when the player to move is not in check (chess), check but has no legal move), th ...

, a "drawn" or tied outcome in chess *

Draw (poker) A poker player is drawing if they have a hand that is incomplete and needs further cards to become valuable. The hand itself is called a draw or drawing hand. For example, in seven-card stud, if four of a player's first five cards are all spades ...

, the act of taking a card from the dealer in poker **

Draw poker Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing, or "drawing", cards. The descriptions below assume the reader is familiar w ...

, a poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round * Draw, the schedule of fixtures in a

sports league A sports league is a group of individual athletes, sports teams or clubs who form a league to compete against each other and gain points in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among them ...

Draw play A draw play, or simply draw for short, is a type of American football play. The draw is a running play disguised as a passing play. It is the opposite of a play-action pass, which is a passing play disguised as a running play. The play is often us ...

, a type of American football play that "tricks" the defense into thinking a pass is being thrown * The "draw", another name for the

face-off A face-off is the method used to begin and restart play after goals in some sports using sticks, primarily ice hockey, bandy, floorball, broomball, rinkball, and lacrosse. During a face-off, two teams line up in opposition to each other, and the ...

in team sports such as ice hockey and lacrosse

Other uses

Drawing (manufacturing) Drawing is a manufacturing process that uses tensile forces to elongate metal, glass, or plastic. As the material is drawn (pulled), it stretches and becomes thinner, achieving a desired shape and thickness. Drawing is classified into two types ...

, the use of tensile forces to elongate a workpiece *

Hanged, drawn and quartered To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torture, torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of High treason in the United Kingdom, high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. The convi ...

, a form of punishment