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  2. What is the meaning of 'being drawn to someone'

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    3. In this context, "to be drawn to a person" means "to be attracted to a person". This does not necessarily mean sexually or romantically, but it is often used that way. You may be thinking of "drawn" in the artistic sense, as in making a sketch, but that would be phrased as "you are drawn by her". It is also possible to use "drawn" in the ...

  3. Being drawn to something? - English Language & Usage Stack...

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    1. Drawn to a person or thing i.e. attracted to. But no "by" in my opinion. However, my attention was drawn to the painting by my friend. – Lambie. Nov 7, 2021 at 20:48. 1. @Lambie -- "The picture caught my eye immediately. I was drawn by the unique colorization of the image."

  4. Directly addressing the question: "Drawed" is a moderately common, though erroneous (per most authorities) past tense of "draw". ("Drew" is the correct past tense, and "drawn" is the past participle.) I've never heard/read "drewn". If you look in an "authoritative" online dictionary such as Cambridge it will list these.

  5. What does "drawn" mean in "Hung, drawn and quartered"?

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    I'd always blithely assumed drawn here meant 'pulled' - as used in the context of wire-making, where malleable metal is 'drawn' through the die/plate/orifice to elongate into lengths of wire.Probably this understanding came to me from drawings of four horses drawing/quartering the victim.This still makes better sense to me of the sequence- with drawn preceding quartered, and there is some ...

  6. Draw my attention (from something) to something

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    The most direct way to convey the desired idea would simply be to change the temporally vague "has drawn" to the active "drew". If you want to emphasize the connection between your research and the change in viewpoint, you might use some construction like "It was my research in social psychology which led me to the . . .".

  7. What is 'draw on' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

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    The verb phrasal 'draw on' seems to have two conflicting definitions: dictionary 1. to come closer in time "It became colder as night drew on." dictionary 2. (of a period of time) pass by and approach its end: "he remembered sitting in silence with his grandmother as evening drew on".

  8. meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

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    1. By lot. Someone chosen by lot was chosen in a draw. A draw is the event of choosing something by that method, but you can't use it as an adjective like you can with "by lot". Also, as an interesting side note, in English we often say "picked out of a hat" or "a name from a hat" or "taken from a hat" or something similar, even if there was no ...

  9. When can we use 'draw upon' instead of 'draw on' and why?

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    Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Volume 84 May 1991 "The Practice of Speech after Laryngectomy" - From the moment of birth the action of sucking is natural to every human being, and so a large teatfrom a baby'sfeeding bottle can be sucked upon by the patient, to make him realize how he can take air into the mouth.

  10. meaning - To raise/lower the blinds or to draw the blinds? -...

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    1. One of the meanings of draw is to pull (think of draft horses), so whichever way you are drawing curtains or blinds, open, closed, left, right, up, down, it is an acceptable usage. If you want to be more specific, you certainly can use a different verb (raise, lower, open, close, etc.) Share. Improve this answer.

  11. writing style - Which idiom is correct "draw on" or "draw from...

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    draw on :- to get any ideas or obtain any advice from someone . e.g. I may have to draw on your advice in order to complete this project. If there is some way you can draw on me to your advantage, let me know. By the end of the contest I had drawn upon all the energy I had.