bull vs draw

bull

verb
  • To force oneself (in a particular direction). 

  • To lie, to tell untruths. 

  • To polish boots to a high shine. 

  • To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull. 

  • To mate with (a cow or heifer). 

  • To endeavour to raise prices in. 

  • To mock; to cheat. 

  • To endeavour to raise the market price of. 

adj
  • Large and strong, like a bull. 

  • Adult male. 

  • Stupid. 

  • Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear). 

noun
  • A policeman. 

  • The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie. 

  • Any adult male bovine. 

  • Beef. 

  • Specifically, one that is uncastrated. 

  • An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals. 

  • A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both. 

  • An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices. 

  • A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age. 

  • An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen. 

  • A lie. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • An elderly lesbian. 

  • A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope. 

  • A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope. 

  • A large, strong man. 

  • Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard. 

  • A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”) 

draw

verb
  • To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction. 

  • To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale. 

  • To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction). 

  • To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left. 

  • To take (water) from a well or other source. 

  • 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. 

  • To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc. 

  • To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.) 

  • To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.). 

  • To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire. 

  • To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position. 

  • To extract (a tooth). 

  • To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out. 

  • To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction. 

  • To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit. 

  • To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this. 

  • To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones. 

  • To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement. 

  • To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time). 

  • To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement. 

  • To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person). 

  • To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery. 

  • To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words. 

  • To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc. 

  • To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground. 

  • To stretch or elongate. 

  • To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction). 

  • To draw up, compose (a document). 

  • To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion. 

  • To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something. 

  • To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence. 

  • To become contracted; to shrink. 

  • To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed. 

  • To assume a specific position or attitude. 

  • To require (a depth of water) for floating. 

  • To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting. 

  • To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc. 

  • Of a sail, to fill with wind. 

  • To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process. 

  • To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking. 

  • To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning). 

  • To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase. 

  • To run (a bath). 

  • To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings. 

  • To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely. 

  • To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive. 

  • To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it. 

  • To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar. 

  • 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. 

  • To consume (power). 

noun
  • A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding. 

  • The act of drawing. 

  • The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing. 

  • Something that attracts e.g. a crowd. 

  • Cannabis. 

  • The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke. 

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

  • A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout. 

  • A bag of cannabis. 

  • Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper. 

  • 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). 

  • A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade. 

  • In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer. 

  • 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. 

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

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