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| aesthetic |
having to do with beauty or art, including literature, dance, music, painting, drawing, and sculpture. |
| art |
the field of visual works such as painting and drawing. [1/4 definitions] |
| art room |
In some schools, there is a room called an art room. It is a kind of classroom, and teachers teach students things like painting and drawing there. Things like brushes, paint, clay, glue, scissors, and paper are kept in an art room. |
| blueprint |
a print of a drawing that shows a building plan. Blueprints usually have white lines on a blue background. [1/2 definitions] |
| cartoon |
a drawing or series of drawings that make people laugh or think; comic strip. Cartoons often have words to show what a character is thinking or saying or to help explain what is happening. [1/2 definitions] |
| charcoal |
a piece of charcoal or a pencil that contains charcoal, used for drawing. [1/2 definitions] |
| compass |
(often plural) an instrument with two hinged legs that is used for drawing circles. One leg ends in a point and the other holds a pencil. [1/2 definitions] |
| contract |
to make smaller by drawing together; shrink or make tighter. [1/6 definitions] |
| crayon |
a colored stick or pencil made of wax. A crayon is used for drawing and coloring. [1/2 definitions] |
| cross out |
to remove something by drawing a line through it. |
| design |
a plan or outline showing how something is to be built or carried out, or the way that something is put together or appears in the end because of the way it was planned. [2/5 definitions] |
| diagram |
a drawing or plan that shows the parts of something or how the parts work together. [1/2 definitions] |
| doodle |
a drawing, sketch, or scribble made without a purpose. [1/2 definitions] |
| draft |
a drawing, design, or plan of something to be built. [1/10 definitions] |
| drawing |
a picture or design made by drawing. [1/3 definitions] |
| emphasize |
When you emphasize something, you give it special attention or strength. You can emphasize something in speaking by saying it loud or saying it again. You can emphasize something you write by drawing a line under it. |
| express |
When you express a feeling, you do something to let others know you have that feeling. You let that feeling out in some way. If you're happy inside, maybe you'll tell other people about it, or maybe just smile a lot. When you express an idea, you tell that idea to others, usually in words, but sometimes in something like a drawing or painting or film. [1/4 definitions] |
| -graph |
a suffix that means "something for writing, drawing, recording, or sending." [1/2 definitions] |
| icon |
on a phone or computer display, a small drawing that is used as a symbol. Clicking on the symbol requests a certain action from the computer, such as opening a file, taking a user to a location, or playing an audio. [1/3 definitions] |
| illustration |
a picture or drawing used to explain or decorate a book or other written material. [1/2 definitions] |
| in |
We often use in when we talk about how long something takes. If you finish your drawing in an hour, it means it took you an hour, or maybe less, to finish it. [1/6 definitions] |
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