different between ballot vs drawing

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian balota (obsolete), ballotta (“small ball, especially one used to register a vote”), from balla (“bale, bundle”) + -otta (“suffix forming diminutive nouns”); or from Middle French balote (obsolete), ballotte (“small ball used to register a vote”) (also compare Middle French balotiage, French ballottage (“second ballot, runoff”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæl?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bæl?t/
• Hyphenation: bal?lot
• Rhymes: -æl?t

Noun

ballot (plural ballots)

1. Originally, a small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote.
2. The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting.
   • July 1836, A. B. (initials of author), London and Westminster Review Article XI, Bribery and Intimidation at Elections

     the insufficiency of the ballot

3. The total of all the votes cast in an election.
4. (chiefly US) A list of candidates running for office; a ticket.

Synonyms

• (paper or card used to cast a vote): ballot paper, voting slip

Derived terms

• absentee ballot
• ballot box
• butterfly ballot
• postal ballot

Translations

Verb

ballot (third-person singular simple present ballots, present participle balloting, simple past and past participle balloted)

1. To vote or decide by ballot.

2. To draw lots.

Translations

See also

• blackballing (also derived from the old practice of using balls to vote)

Further reading

• ballot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

balle +? -ot

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o

Noun

ballot m (plural ballots)

1. bundle, package
2. (informal, derogatory) fool, nitwit

Derived terms

• C'est ballot

Further reading

• “ballot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?palloh(t)/

Verb

ballot

1. first-person plural imperative of ballat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??.(w)??(?)/
• (cot-caught merger) IPA^(key): /?d??.??(?)/
• (intrusive R) IPA^(key): /?d?????(?)/
• Rhymes: -????
• Rhymes: -????? (in some dialects)

Etymology 1

From Middle English drauinge, drawinge, alteration of earlier drawende, drawand, from Old English dragende, from Proto-Germanic *dragandz (“drawing”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *dragan? (“to draw; pull”), equivalent to draw +? -ing.

Verb

drawing

1. present participle of draw

Etymology 2

From Middle English drauing, drawing, equivalent to draw +? -ing.

Noun

drawing (countable and uncountable, plural drawings)

1. A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
2. (uncountable) The act of producing such a picture.
3. Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
4. The process of drawing or pulling something.

   Proverb: An official is great in his office as a well is rich in drawings of water.

5. An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.
6. A small portion of tea for steeping.

Alternative forms

• dwg (abbreviation)

Derived terms

• drawing board
• technical drawing

Related terms

• draft
• drawer
• drawn work

Translations

See also

• sketch
• drafter
• draftsman

Anagrams

• Wingard, warding