different between draw vs call

English

Etymology

From Middle English drawen, dra?en, dragen, from Old English dragan (“to draw, drag, pull”), from Proto-West Germanic *dragan, from Proto-Germanic *dragan?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?reg?- (“to draw, pull”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???/

Rhymes: -??

Homophone: drawer (UK)

• (US) IPA^(key): /d??/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /d??/

Verb

draw (third-person singular simple present draws, present participle drawing, simple past drew, past participle drawn or (colloquial and nonstandard) drew)

1. To move or develop something.
   1. To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.
      • 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation

        A flattering painter who made it his care / To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
   2. To deduce or infer.

   3. (intransitive, transitive, of drinks, especially tea) To steep, leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase.

   4. (transitive) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc.

   5. To take into the lungs; to inhale.

      • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

      • 1979, Monty Python, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

        So always look on the bright side of death / Just before you draw your terminal breath

   6. (used with prepositions and adverbs) To move; to come or go.

   7. To approach, come to, or arrive at a point in time or a process.
   8. (transitive) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
      • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

        We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.

   9. (transitive, obsolete) To withdraw.
   10. (archaic) To draw up (a document).
2. To exert or experience force.
   1. (transitive) To drag, pull.
      • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot, Chapter VIII

        Lys shuddered, and I put my arm around her and drew her to me; and thus we sat throughout the hot night. She told me of her abduction and of the fright she had undergone, and together we thanked God that she had come through unharmed, because the great brute had dared not pause along the danger-infested way.

      • At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.

   2. (intransitive) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling.

   3. To pull out, unsheathe (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth).

   4. To undergo the action of pulling or dragging.

   5. (archery) To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting.
   6. (of curtains, etc.) To close.

   7. (of curtains, etc.) To open.

   8. (card games) To take the top card of a deck into hand.

3. (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
   1. To extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out, primarily water or blood.

      • The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.

      • 1705, George Cheyne, Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed

        Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.

   2. To drain by emptying; to suck dry.
      • 1705, Richard Wiseman, Tumours, Gun Shot Wounds, &c.

        Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can be generated.

   3. (figuratively) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.
   4. To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
   5. (intransitive, medicine, dated) To work as an epispastic; said of a blister, poultice, etc.
   6. (intransitive) To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc.

   7. (analogous) To consume, for example, power.

4. To change in size or shape.
   1. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch.
      • 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People

        the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee

   2. (intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink.
5. To attract or be attracted.
   1. To attract.
   2. To induce (a reticent person) to speak.

   3. (hunting) To search for game.
      • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p.87:

        On one of my expeditions, after a stormy night, at the end of March, the hounds drew all day without finding a fox.

   4. To cause.
   5. (intransitive) To exert an attractive force; (figuratively) to act as an inducement or enticement.
      • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries

        These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]

      • Keep a watch upon the particular bias which nature has fixed in their minds, that it may not draw too much.

6. (usually as draw on or draw upon) To rely on; utilize as a source.
   • January 19 1782, Benjamin Franklin, letter to John Jay

     but I would have you draw on me for a Quarter at present which shall be paid
7. To disembowel.
   • 1709, William King, The Art of Cookery

     In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.

8. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
9. To choose by means of a random selection process.
   1. To select by the drawing of lots.
      • 1784, Edward Augustus Freeman, An essay on parliamentary representation, and the magistracies of our boroughs royal: […]

        Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn.

      • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House

        In the drawing of lots, my sister drew her own room, and I drew Master B.'s.

   2. (transitive) To win in a lottery or similar game of chance.

   3. (poker) To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out.

10. (curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
11. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
12. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
13. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.

Conjugation

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Translations

Noun

draw (countable and uncountable, plural draws)

1. The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.

   The game ended in a draw.

2. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.

   The draw is on Saturday.
3. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:

     After It, Clara became one of the top box-office draws in Hollywood, but her popularity was short lived.

4. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
5. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
6. (curling) A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
8. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
   • 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 15

     The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.

9. (slang, countable) A bag of cannabis.
   • 2011, Yvonne Ellis, Daughter, Arise: A Journey from Devastation to Restoration (page 54)

     So my friends and I would all chip in money to get a bag of weed or a draw.

10. (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
    • 2017, Michael Coleman, Old Skool Rave (page 139)

      Mick spoke to Simon, who was more of a drinker. He said that people who smoked draw were boring.

11. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
12. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
13. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
14. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

Synonyms

• (The result of a contest in which neither side has won): stalemate
• (dry stream bed that drains water during periods of heavy precipitation): dry creek

Derived terms

Translations

References

• draw at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• -ward, Ward, ward

Welsh

Etymology

Related to Breton treu, Old Breton dydreu, didreu.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /dra?u?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /drau?/

Adverb

draw

1. there, yonder, beyond

   Synonyms: acw, hwnt

2. over

Usage notes

This adverb, originally the a soft-mutated form of traw, is found almost exclusively as unmutatable draw today except in literary contexts where forms such as aspirate-mutated thraw may be encountered.

Derived terms

• draw fama (“over here”)
• draw fan hyn (“over here”)
• draw fanna (“over there”)
• draw ’na (“over there”)
• mas draw (“exceedingly”)
• ochr draw (“other side, far side”)
• pen draw (“far end, limit”)
• trwyddo draw (“through and through”)
• tu draw (“beyond”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “draw”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

English

Etymology

From Middle English callen, from Old English ceallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalz?n? (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal(o)s-, *gl?s-, *golH-so- (“voice, cry”). Cognate with Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”), Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”), German dialectal kallen (“to talk; talk loudly or too much”), Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”), Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”), Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”), Welsh galw (“to call, demand”), Polish g?os (“voice”), Lithuanian gal?sas (“echo”), Russian ????? (golos, “voice”), Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôl, IPA^(key): /k??l/, [k?o?],
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?l/, [k???]
• (US, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /k?l/, [k???]
• Homophone: coll (with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

call (plural calls)

1. A telephone conversation; a phone call.

2. An instance of calling someone on the telephone.

3. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
4. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.

5. A cry or shout.

6. A decision or judgement.

7. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

8. A beckoning or summoning.
9. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.

10. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
11. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
12. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
13. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
    • 1978, Alan E. Nourse, The Practice,^[1] Harper & Row, ?ISBN:

      page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call.”

      page 56: “[...] I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”

    • 2007, William D. Bailey, You Will Never Run out of Jesus, CrossHouse Publishing, ?ISBN:

      page 29: I took general-surgery call at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical call, which was gladly given away by the older staff members: [...]. You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical call.

      page 206: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.

    • 2008, Jamal M. Bullocks [et al.], Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques, Thieme, ?ISBN, page ix:

      We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.
14. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
15. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

17. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
18. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
19. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
20. A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
21. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
22. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
23. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
24. (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.

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Translations

Verb

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or call'd)

1. To use one's voice.
   1. (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
   2. (intransitive) To cry or shout.
   3. (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
   4. (transitive, intransitive) To contact by telephone.

   5. (transitive) To declare in advance.

   6. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
   7. To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.

2. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
   1. To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
   2. To stop at a station or port.

3. To name, identify or describe.
   1. (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
   2. (in passive) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
   3. (transitive) To predict.

   4. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
      • 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy:

        The whole army is called 700,000 men

   5. (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
   6. (obsolete) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.
4. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
   1. (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
   2. (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
   3. (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

   4. (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)

   5. (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

5. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
6. (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
7. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
8. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
9. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

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Usage notes

• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb call had the form callest, and had calledst for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form calleth was used.

Synonyms

• (cry or shout): holler, yell; see also Thesaurus:shout
• (contact by telephone): drop a line, ring, get on the horn, give someone a ring, give someone a bell; see also Thesaurus:telephone
• (rouse from sleep): wake up; see also Thesaurus:awaken
• (name or refer to): designate, dub, name; see also Thesaurus:denominate
• (predict): augur, foretell; see also Thesaurus:predict

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka?/

Etymology 1

From Latin callis (“alley, narrow street, passageway”)

Noun

call m (plural calls)

1. passageway

Etymology 2

From Latin callum.

Noun

call m (uncountable)

1. corn

Derived terms

• call de la mà
• callera

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Hebrew ?????? (qahál, “assembly, synagogue”).

Noun

call m (plural calls)

1. Jewish quarter

   Synonym: jueria

Further reading

• “call” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• cál

Noun

call m (genitive singular call)

1. call, need
2. claim, right

Declension

Derived terms

• gan chall (“needlessly”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kal??/

Noun

call m (genitive singular caill)

1. Ulster form of coll (“hazel”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "call" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “call” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “call” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

call m (genitive singular calla, plural callaidhean)

1. verbal noun of caill
2. loss
3. waste

Derived terms

• call cumhachd

Mutation

Welsh

Adjective

call (feminine singular call, plural call, equative called, comparative callach, superlative callaf)

1. wise, sensible, rational

   Synonyms: doeth, deallus

Derived terms

• callineb (“wisdom, rationality”)
• callio (“to become wise”)

Mutation