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draw
Verb
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When you draw, you use a pencil, pen, crayon, etc. to make a picture.
She drew a beautiful picture of the sky on a bright white piece of paper.
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If a person is attracted or interested in an event, then he is drawn to it.
The discover of gold in the West drew many people living in the East to move westward.
draw
Noun
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When a game is tied and no one has won, then the game is a draw.
The game ended 3 to 3. We were disappointed that it was a draw.
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A draw is when the winners of a lottery are announced.
The draw is on Tuesday. I hope I won.
by
Preposition
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near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
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at some time before (the given time).
Be back by ten o'clock!
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if something is done by somebody, it is done through their action
The matter was decided by the chairman.
The boat was swamped by the water.
He was protected by his body armour.
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if something is created by somebody, they are the creator, author, etc.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare.
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shows how someone does something
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
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using the rules or logic of.
I sorted the items by category.
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with a change of. In this case, by shows how much something has changed.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
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shows how slowly, or how quickly, someone does something (used in the form "X by X" or "by Xs")
We went through the book page by page.
We crawled forward by inches.
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If you multiply mathx/math by mathy/math, you multiply mathx/math × mathy/math.
Five multiplied by seven is 35.
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If you divide mathx/math by mathy/math, you find how many mathy/maths are in mathx/math.
35 divided by seven is five.