draw a blank

US pronunciation

American sounddraw a blank

drawablank

Syllables: 3 syllables
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Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

draw - a - blank -> draw a blank

Myanmar meaning

[IDM ] အရာမထင်ဖြစ်သည်။ မရေမရာ ဖြစ်သည်။

Full entry

draw /drↄ:/ v (pt drew /dru:/; pp drawn /drↄ:n/)

၁။ ပုံဆွဲသည်။ အရုပ်ရေးသည်။
You draw beautifully. ❍ draw a picture/diagram/graph ❍ She drew a house. ❍ He drew a circle in the sand with a stick. ❍ (fig ) The report drew a grim picture of inefficiency and corruption.
ဤအစီရင်ခံစာသည် လုပ်ငန်းမကျွမ်းကျင်မှု၊ အဂတိ လိုက်စားမှု တို့ကို ရင်လေးဖွယ် ပုံဖော်ထားသည်။
၂။ ဝင်လာသည်။ နီးလာ သည်။
The train drew into the station/drew in. ❍ The figures in the distance seemed to be drawing nearer/closer. ❍ (fig ) Christmas is drawing near. ❍ The meeting was drawing to a close.
၃။ (က) ဆွဲထုတ်သည်။ ရွှေ့သည်။
draw the cork out of a bottle ❍ I drew my chair up closer to the fire.
(ခ) ဆွဲခေါ်သည်။
She drew me onto the balcony. ❍ I tried to draw him aside (eg where I could talk to him privately).
၄။ (မြင်း စသည်) လှည်း၊ ရထားဆွဲသည်။
The Queen's coach was drawn by six horses. ❍ a horse-drawn carriage/plough. ❍ pull v
၅။ ကန့်လန့်ကာ စသည် ပိတ်သည်၊ ဖွင့်သည်။ The blinds were drawn. ❍ She drew (back) a curtain across the doorway.
၆။ သေနတ်၊ ဓား၊ လက်နက် ဆွဲထုတ်သည်။ She drew a revolver on me. ❍ He came towards me with his sword drawn.
၇။ (က) ~ sth (from sth) ကောက်ချက်ချသည်။ သင်ခန်းစာယူသည်။ What conclusions did you draw (from the report)? ❍ draw a moral from a story ❍ We can draw some lessons for the future from this accident.
(ခ) နှိုင်းယှဉ်သည်။ draw an analogy/a comparison/a parallel/a distinction between two events.
၈။ ~ sth from sth/sb ထုတ်နုတ်သည်။ ရယူသည်။ draw information from many different sources ❍ draw support/comfort/strength from one's family ❍ She drew (her) inspiration from her childhood experiences. ❍ The army draws its recruits from all classes of society.
၉။ (က) ~ sb (to sth) ဆွဲဆောင်သည်။ စိတ်ဝင်တစားဖြစ်သည်။
The film is drawing large audiences. ❍ Her screams drew passers-by to the scene. စူးစူးဝါးဝါး အော်သံကြောင့် လမ်းသွားလမ်းလာများ ဝိုင်းအုံလာသည်။ ❍ I felt drawn to this mysterious stranger. ❍ The course draws students from all over the country.
(ခ) ~ sth (from sb) တုံ့ပြန်မှုရ သည်။
The announcement drew loud applause from the audience. ❍ The scheme has drawn much criticism.
၁၀။ ~ sb (about/on sth) (esp passive) များများပြောလာ အောင် မေးမြန်းသည်။ The interviewer asked about possible tax increases, but the minister refused to be drawn (on that).
၁၁။ ~ (for sth); ~ sth (from sth); ~ sb (against sb) ကံစမ်းခြင်းဖြင့် ဆုံးဖြတ်သည်။ မဲနှိုက်သည်။ draw for partners (eg in a card-game) ❍ draw the winner/the winning ticket in a raffle ❍ draw names from a hat ❍ Italy have been drawn against/drawn to play Spain in the World Cup.
၁၂။ ~ (with/against sb) သရေပွဲဖြစ်သည်။ သရေကျသည်။ England and Spain drew. ❍ England drew with/against Spain. ❍ draw three all ❍ a drawn match.
၁၃။ (က) ~ sth (from sth); ~ sth out (of sth) ဘဏ်မှငွေထုတ်သည်။ Can I draw $80 from/out of my account? ❍ I drew out £200.
(ခ) ~ sth on sth ချက်လက်မှတ်ဖြင့် ထုတ်သည်။ The cheque was drawn on his personal account.
(ဂ) (ပင်စင်လစာ စသည်) ထုတ်ယူသည်။ She went to the post office to draw her pension.
၁၄။ (က) ~ sth (from sth); ~ sth (off) (ရေ၊ အရည်) ငင်သည်၊ ဆွဲသည်။ draw water (from a well) ❍ He drew off a pint of beer. ဘီယာတစ်ပိုင့် ခွက်ခြင် ထုတ်ပေးသည်။
(ခ) မှုတ်ထုတ် သည်။ စုပ်ယူသည်။ The device draws water along the pipe/up into the tank. (ဂ) ~ at/on sth; ~ sth in ရှိုက် သည်။ ဖွာသည်။ He drew thoughtfully on his pipe. ❍ She breathed deeply, drawing in the fresh mountain air.
၁၅။ (nautical ) (သင်္ဘော) ရေစူးရှိသည်။ a ship drawing 20 feet.
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၁။ (က) (usu sing ) ~ (for sth) မဲချရွေးချယ်ခြင်း။ မဲနှိုက်ခြင်း။ ထီဖွင့်ခြင်း။ the draw for the second round of the European Cup ❍ The draw for the raffle takes place on Saturday.
(ခ) ကံထူးရှင် ရွေးချယ်ပွဲ။ Enter our £1 million prize draw! Compare RAFFLE, LOTTERY ၁
(ဂ) မဲနှိုက်၍ ပွဲစဉ်တွဲခြင်း၊ ချခြင်း။ Liverpool have a home/an away draw against Manchester United.
(ဃ) (usu sing ) မဲကျသောပွဲစဉ်များ။ The champion has some difficult opponents in her half of the draw.
၂။ သရေပွဲ။ The match ended in a 2-2 draw. Compare TIE n ၆
၃။ (usu sing ) ပရိသတ်ကို ဆွဲဆောင်သောပုဂ္ဂိုလ်၊ အရာ။ A live band is always a good draw at a disco. ဒစ္စကိုကလပ်မှာ လူ ကိုယ်တိုင် တီးမှုတ်ဖျော်ဖြေမှုဟာ ပရိသတ်ကို အဆွဲဆောင်နိုင်ဆုံးပဲ။
၄။ ဆေးလိပ်၊ ဆေးတံ ဖွာခြင်း၊ ရှိုက်ခြင်း။
❏ draw (sb's) attention to sth/sb [IDM ] ညွှန်ပြသည်။ ထောက်ပြသည်။ She drew my attention to an error in the report. ❍ She's very shy and hates drawing attention to herself. သူဟာ သိပ်ရှက်တတ်တယ်။ ထင်ပေါ်အောင် မလုပ်ချင် ဘူး။
❏ draw back (from sth/doing sth) [PHRV ] [ဥ] နောက်ဆုတ်သည်။ draw back from a declaration of war/from declaring war.
❏ draw a blank [IDM ] အရာမထင်ဖြစ်သည်။ မရေမရာ ဖြစ်သည်။ So far, the police investigations have drawn a blank.
❏ draw blood [IDM ]
၁။ သွေးထွက်သံယိုဖြစ်စေသည်။
၂။ ထိခိုက်စေသည်။ အောင့်သွားစေသည်။ His taunts clearly drew blood.
❏ draw breath [IDM ]
၁။ အသက်ရှူသည်။ She talks all the time and hardly stops to draw breath.
၂။ (rhet ) အသက်ထင်ရှားရှိသည်။ as kind a man as ever drew breath. (သက်ရှိထင်ရှား) လူတွေထဲမှာတော့ အကြင်နာတရား ပြည့်ဝသူတစ်ဦးပါ။
❏ draw sb's fire [IDM ] (ပြစ်တင်ဝေဖန်မှု စသည်ကို) တစ်ဦးတည်း ခေါင်းခံသည်။
❏ draw in [PHRV ] (ဆောင်းဝင်လာ၍) နေအကျမြန်သည်၊ နေ့တာတိုလာသည်၊ အမှောင်မြန်သည်။ The nights/days are drawing in.
❏ draw in one's horns [IDM ] မာန်လျှော့သည်။ Pressure grew on the US to draw in its military horns.
❏ draw sb into sth/doing sth; draw sb in [PHRV ] ပါဝင်ပတ်သက်စေသည်။ ဆွဲသွင်းသည်။ youngsters drawn into a life of crime ❍ The book starts slowly, but it gradually draws you in.
❏ draw the line (at sth/doing sth) [IDM ] စည်းသတ် သည်။ ရပ်တန်းကရပ်သည်။ I don't mind helping, but I draw the line at doing everything myself. ❍ A line has to be drawn somewhere—I can't go on lending you money for ever.
❏ draw the line (between sth and sth) [IDM ] ခွဲခြား သတ်မှတ်သည်။ စည်းခြားသည်။ Where do you draw the line between genius and madness?
❏ draw on [PHRV ] (အချိန်ရာသီ) နီးကပ်လာသည်၊ ကျရောက် လာသည်။ Night was drawing on.
❏ draw on/upon sth [PHRV ] ထုတ်သုံးသည်။ အခြေတည် သည်။ အရင်းခံသည်။ I'll have to draw on my savings. ❍ The novelist draws heavily on her personal experiences.
❏ draw sb on [PHRV ] ဆွဲဆောင်သည်။ မက်လုံးပေးသည်။ They drew investors on with visions of instant wealth.
❏ draw out [PHRV ] (နွေဦးပေါက်၍) နေ့တာရှည်လာ သည်။
❏ draw sb out [PHRV ] ပြောရဲဆိုရဲရှိအောင် အားပေးသည်၊ ပြောခိုင်းသည်။ He's very shy and needs to be drawn out.
❏ draw sth out [PHRV ] အချိန်ဆွဲသည်။ ရှည်လျားအောင် လုပ်သည်။ She drew the interview out to over an hour. ❍ a long-drawn-out discussion/struggle/process.
❏ draw the short straw [IDM ] ကံမကောင်း။ I drew the short straw and had to clean the toilet.
❏ draw-string n ရှုံ့ကြိုး။ a draw-string bag.
❏ draw up [PHRV ] ထိုးရပ်သည်။ ထိုးဆိုက်သည်။ The taxi drew up outside the house.
❏ draw sth up [PHRV ] (အစီအစဉ်တကျ) ရေးဆွဲ ပြုစုသည်။ draw up a contract/list ❍ draw up a set of plans/rules/accounts.
❏ draw a veil over sth [IDM ] (ပြဿနာမဖြစ်လို၍) ရေငုံ နှုတ်ပိတ်နေသည်။ I propose to draw a veil over the appalling events that followed.
❏ quick/slow on the draw [IDM ]
၁။ (infml ) သဘော ပေါက်မှု၊ တုံ့ပြန်မှု နှေးခြင်း/မြန်ခြင်း။ He's a nice lad, but a bit slow on the draw.
၂။ သေနတ်အထုတ် လက်မြန်ခြင်း၊ လက်နှေးခြင်း။

More examples

Someone had drawn a map of the island.
[draw with] : The kids drew on the pavement with chalk.
I can’t draw at all.
Can you draw faces?
[draw the curtains] : The curtains were still drawn at noon.
The carriage was drawn by a small pony.
He drew a handkerchief from his pocket.
Ellie drew a hand across her forehead.
Our advisers have been drawn from a wide range of experts.
India were drawn to play against USA in a Davis Cup tie.
I drew two cards from the pack.
[draw] : As we drew nearer, I noticed that the front door was open.
[draw apart] : Ruth held him for a long time before they drew apart.
[draw to a] : A taxi was drawing to a halt outside the hotel.
[draw something from something] : She drew inspiration for her stories from her childhood.
The evidence presented to you has been drawn from many sources.
[draw a line/distinction/boundary] : The law draws a distinction between children and adults.
[draw a parallel/analogy/comparison] : The writer drew parallels between the two societies.
[draw praise/criticism] : The new exhibition has been drawing a lot of criticism.
[draw a refusal/denial] : The claims drew an immediate denial from the President’s office.
[draw someone’s attention/eye/gaze] : Our attention was drawn by the sound of gunfire.
[draw to] : My eyes were drawn to a painting hanging over the fireplace.
Customers can draw up to £250 a day from most accounts.
[draw out] : I’ll need to draw out more cash tomorrow.

Synonyms

sketch, illustrate, copy, depict, describe, pencil in, represent, portray, allure, allurement, appeal, argue into, attenuate, attract, attraction, bewitch, bring, bring around, bring forth, bring in, call forth, captivate, caricature, carry, charm, chart, choose, collect, compose, conclude, convey, convince, crayon, crowd puller, cull, dead end, dead heat, deadlock, deduce, delineate, derive, design, draft, drag, drain, educe, elicit, elongate, enchant, engage, engrave, entice, enticement, equal, etch, even, even steven, evoke, express, extend, extort, extract, fascinate, fetch, finish equal, form, formulate, frame, gain, gather, get, graph, haul, heave, hook, induce, inducement, infer, influence, invite, jerk, judge, lengthen, limn, lug, lure, magnet, magnetize, make, make out, map out, mark, model, move, obtain, outline, paint, pencil, persuade, photo finish, pick, pluck, prepare, profile, prompt, pull, pull out, pump, rake, respire, select, single out, siphon, square, stalemate, standoff, stretch, suck, take, take out, tap, tie, tow, trace, trail, trawl, tug, unsheathe, wile, win over, wind in, withdraw, wrench, write, yank

Antonyms

alienate, confuse, destroy, disallow, discourage, disenchant, disgust, disorganize, disperse, dissuade, distribute, divide, estrange, exhale, fail, give, grow, halt, hinder, ignore, insert, keep, let go, lose, misunderstand, mix up, neglect, offend, plant, prevent, propel, push, push away, put away, put in, rebuff, refuse, reject, repel, repress, repulse, ruin, scatter, shorten, shove, stop, turn off