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DRAWER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("drawer" is a kind of...):
container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))
storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)
Meronyms (parts of "drawer"):
lock (a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed)
Holonyms ("drawer" is a part of...):
buffet; counter; sideboard (a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers)
bureau; chest; chest of drawers; dresser (furniture with drawers for keeping clothes)
chiffonier; commode (a tall elegant chest of drawers)
desk (a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments)
Derivation:
draw (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An artist skilled at drawing
Synonyms:
draftsman; drawer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("drawer" is a kind of...):
artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drawer"):
cartoonist (a person who draws cartoons)
pavement artist (someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money))
sketcher (someone who draws sketches)
Derivation:
draw (engage in drawing)
draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("drawer" is a kind of...):
money dealer; money handler (a person who receives or invests or pays out money)
Derivation:
draw (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source))
Context examples:
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient pace, do things over and over such as opening closets or drawers, or repeatedly pick at things or wind string or threads?
(NPI - Pace, Do Things Over and Over, Repeatedly Pick at Things, NCI Thesaurus)
He stood up and opened a large drawer, in which were arranged in order a number of hollow cylinders of metal covered with dark wax, and said:—You are quite right.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The cards of address alone remained to nail on: they lay, four little squares, in the drawer.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
With a cheek flushed by hope, and an eye straining with curiosity, her fingers grasped the handle of a drawer and drew it forth.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But you should not have taken it out, my dear, when I sent you to the drawer.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I have a check for five hundred pounds which should be cashed early, for the drawer is quite capable of stopping it if he can.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One drawer of the cabinet contained a real 0.38-caliber handgun that had been modified so it could not fire, although the gun's hammer and trigger were still functional.
(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Her mother and she contrived to fit up the baby’s cradle for me against night: the cradle was put into a small drawer of a cabinet, and the drawer placed upon a hanging shelf for fear of the rats.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
So she went upstairs to her room, and took a white handkerchief out of her top drawer; then she set the boy’s head again on his shoulders, and bound it with the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and placed him on a chair by the door with an apple in his hand.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
