noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an outline drawing/sketch
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Once I am happy with the outline sketch, I start painting.
drawing board
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The current system just isn’t working – we need to go back to the drawing board and start afresh.
drawing pin
drawing power
drawing room
drawing to a close (= ending )
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The monsoon season was drawing to a close .
freehand drawing/sketch
line drawing
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
architectural
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Works to be shown include architectural drawings by Huyot, Brune, and Bonnet.
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They regularly review engineering and architectural drawings and specifications to monitor progress and ensure compliance with plans and specifications.
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Galerie de Stael, for example, sold seventeen works, mainly nineteenth-century watercolours and architectural drawings .
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The show features original architectural drawings , photos, scale models and videos.
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These papers include maps, plans and architectural drawings .
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A device used to produce maps, architectural drawings and other graphic output.
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Monumental sculptures and architectural drawings are on the programme at Villa Blanche, until 16 May.
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I stopped off at Jim Groeling's place - a fine old barn - to discuss some architectural drawings with him.
detailed
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George worked from detailed plans, drawings and photographs of the Fort, employing a scale of 1:300.
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I shall be here for some time - I have to make detailed drawings and take photographs.
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You may need full planning permission, based on the submission of detailed drawings .
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It can be used with or without quantities, and either the architect or the contractor produces detailed drawings .
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Detail is a lower-level job, involving the preparation of detailed drawings for use by craftsmen or women.
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One detailed drawing shows a grand chateau with vineyards, tennis court and swimming pool.
old
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She also claimed on television that 152 old drawings had disappeared.
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The Library, which contains also the world famous Old Master drawings collection, was untouched.
original
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Mixed media such as newspaper and magazine clippings and original drawings executed by the artist create these combines.
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They're using the original drawings by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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The show features original architectural drawings , photos, scale models and videos.
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The original drawing for the blue plaque is included.
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This was also necessary in order to obscure all traces of the original pencil drawing .
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Plus a whole batch of original drawings previewing his next collection.
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Working from the original drawings a high quality coach true to the original, but complying with modern regulations will result.
special
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I was sitting on the floor of the pantry, in my special place, drawing and feeling a little sad.
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He illustrated them with special drawings .
technical
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A language of technical drawing began.
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But for others, the reverse was true: it was technical drawing which attracted them into engineering.
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Electronic filing would require very large storage capacities for maps and technical drawings . 4.
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Both are lavishly illustrated throughout with period photographs and technical drawings .
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The only subject which I had difficulty with was technical drawing .
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Now technical drawing was completely new and I did get some help from a boyfriend.
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When I was in the first year, he gave me some assistance in technical drawing .
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In 1817 Clement left Maudslays and set up his own business, specializing in technical drawing and the manufacture of high-precision machinery.
■ NOUN
attention
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Smith wrote to Charles Hermite, the president of the Academy, drawing attention to his papers.
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He can't be very bright can he, drawing attention to himself like that?
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It is often difficult to know when and how to intervene without reinforcing the insult by drawing attention to it.
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Its circular of 12 January drawing attention to the decisions against united action taken at Southport, had been ignored.
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The movement was slow and sly to avoid drawing attention to himself.
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Feminists questioned this, drawing attention to the contribution to wealth made by women's unpaid labour in the home.
board
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The balancing of these main curves is done on the drawing board .
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But evolution never starts from a clean drawing board .
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You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board .
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These are then traced on a touch-sensitive drawing board to make digital data signals which are dumped in the computer memory.
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The new ship, which has been on the drawing boards since the late 1970s, will be a research vessel.
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They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board .
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There are also different kinds of drawing boards which will hold the paper firmly down and provide moving X and Y axes.
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It already had a well-developed product on the market, whilst its rivals were struggling to get one on to the drawing board .
life
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Stephen Conroy and I had the same tutor, Geoff Squires, and maybe he's a model for our life drawing .
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In the life drawing classes it was hard to get a seat and many sat on the windowsills.
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She felt that she would like to take up life drawing .
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I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle.
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Conté Carres crayons are well known and very popular, especially for life drawing .
line
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The illustrations were line drawings and she used to colour them in with crayons after each new plant had been correctly named.
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There were light bulbs representing the stars and line drawings of the celestial figures.
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Golf has replaced hockey as her sport, and she still enjoys acting and painting and especially line drawing .
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The page description language also allows graphics to be incorporated; rules, tones, line drawings and so on.
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Base artwork artwork requiring additional components such as halftones or line drawings to be added before the reproduction stage.
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Illustrations and line drawings are of the highest quality, many coming from Chris's own photographic portfolio.
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The results are terse and sharply etched, like the best line drawings .
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Jan Pienkowski's bold primary colours and simple line drawings are a baby's delight.
master
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The Library, which contains also the world famous Old Master drawings collection, was untouched.
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Colnaghi is showing a wide-ranging group of fifty-three fine Master drawings .
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The master drawing is usually the ground floor plan, taken as a section at one metre height.
package
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This program is better than a great number of Commercial drawing packages for children.
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Designworks 1.2 Designworks is one of the few budget drawing packages that isn't derived from a larger, more expensive product.
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Before choosing a painting or drawing package it is important to realise the fundamental difference between them.
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All of the current high-end drawing packages are packed with features and are capable of the highest quality output.
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Designworks is an economical package but you still need a reasonably powerful machine to run any drawing package.
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A very good drawing package and one that is getting better all the time.
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Look out for products such as Visio, a drop and drag drawing package which utilises job-specific stencils.
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This could seen as a graphical art exercise achieved by astute utilisation of a drawing package .
pin
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A drawing pin through the pocket ensures the holder does not fall out; comfort, security and peace at last.
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If you happen to.sit on a drawing pin and jump up the objective is a rear-end one.
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Using drawing pins , attach the top edge to the pelmet board.
room
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At the end of the collation the objects of this relentless pedagogical experiment were suddenly in the drawing room .
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When I returned to the drawing room , a clergyman was talking about the hardships being suffered by children in Berlin.
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He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires.
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The house being packed up in the Mansfield Street drawing room .
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She switched on the lights for the drawing room on her right though she did not go into the room.
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But Charles and Elaine were sitting on the rug before the open wood fire in the drawing room .
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It was a relief to see Sophia standing in the window of the vicarage drawing room and beckoning her to come in.
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There was a scene in a panelled drawing room .
scale
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Use should be made of such things as plans of models, dress patterns, scale drawings , photographs, maps.
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Applications to craft work and model making provide overlap with work on scale drawing .
■ VERB
include
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His show at Esman will include a large wall drawing .
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Graphics include maps and drawings , often positioned over the shoulder of the anchor.
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It includes drawing , painting, design, sculpture and textiles.
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Works to be shown include architectural drawings by Huyot, Brune, and Bonnet.
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These options include drawing and painting skills, two-dimensional design, ceramics, fabric crafts, and fashion.
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These activities include drawing , cutting out, identifying objects, and written exercises.
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It includes drawings for wall decorations, tapestries, silverware, stage designs and even a triumphal car.
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Amdega's exclusive design service is absolutely free and includes drawings and quotations.
make
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In 1908 he had made a drawing of a table-turning.
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These players would rush back to their respective teams and quickly make drawings to convey what was on the card.
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Visual formats make the drawing of conclusions simpler.
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They would sit with him and watch him color or make simple drawings in the notebooks they brought him.
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His choice is made entirely from drawings of the prospective children.
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They were able to make drawings that stirred real emotions other than laughter.
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Patterns are made from drawings and are three dimensional representation usually in wood of the product.
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Winsor &038; Newton used to make double-sided drawing pins, but alas, no longer.
produce
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Spitzer produces his drawings in a darkroom by applying a titanium mixture on to parchment, which gradually turns black in daylight.
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It can be used with or without quantities, and either the architect or the contractor produces detailed drawings .
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A device used to produce maps, architectural drawings and other graphic output.
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For instance, some children were asked to produce a drawing to show what is inside their bodies.
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This type of software is widely used in industry, architecture, etc to produce design drawings .
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I produced a full size drawing on cartridge graph paper and cut out templates for both inner and outer surfaces.
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Invariably, the left hand produces a better drawing .
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By completing pictures children can demonstrate their ideas visually without spending a lot of time producing a complicated drawing .
show
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The box shown in the drawing is an opportunity space.
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In February 1928, she had shown pastels and drawings .
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Finally, bend the strip as shown in the drawing .
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And sometimes they showed me drawings of places in Angria or Gondal.
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Works to be shown include architectural drawings by Huyot, Brune, and Bonnet.
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About one hundred sculptures and constructions, the majority loaned by the Fundacio Joan Miró and shown with related drawings and sketches.
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The following will show how the name drawing arose.
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It is also possible to use a large ice-cream carton, cut as shown in the drawing .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(go) back to the drawing board
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Voters rejected the bridge expansion plan, so it's back to the drawing board for city engineers.
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For San Jose, it was back to the drawing board.
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So Superman, once the most recognized and revered hero in comic books, was sent back to the drawing board.
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Sometimes, you also have to go back to the drawing board.
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The Cta episode has therefore sent the whole idea of direct dating of petroglyphs back to the drawing board.
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They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.
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They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board.
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You also could go back to the drawing board with that budget, trying to reduce costs.
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You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board.
on the drawing board
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Additional programs in international studies and telecommunications were on the drawing board.
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Parisians remain unconvinced that the project will be approved, especially since it is not the only idea on the drawing board.
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Plans also are on the drawing board to develop chips for the cable industry.
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The balancing of these main curves is done on the drawing board.
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Until that changes, the Tobin tax will remain on the drawing board.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Degas did a series of drawings of dancers at the ballet school in Paris.
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I did a drawing of the church
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Katherine enjoys drawing .
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Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings show an immensely inventive and inquiring mind.
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On the wall was a drawing of a woman's head by Matisse.
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The classroom was bright and cheerful, with childrens' drawings on the walls.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Calligraphic screens generated drawings in the same fashion.
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Cottage Holidays has a 92-page brochure with drawings and descriptions of properties.
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Her drawings reveal this gift in its greatest purity.
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In 1908 he had made a drawing of a table-turning.
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It was really my doing, or rather my drawings, that had brought us to this brink.