Drawing vs. Raffle

Drawingverb

present participle of draw

Drawingnoun

A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

Drawingnoun

The act of producing such a picture.

Drawingnoun

Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.

Drawingnoun

The process of drawing or pulling something.

Drawingnoun

An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat).

Drawingnoun

A small portion of tea for steeping.

Drawingnoun

The act of pulling, or attracting.

Drawingnoun

The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

Drawingnoun

The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

Drawingnoun

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

Drawingnoun

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

Drawingnoun

an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine;

Drawingnoun

a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines;

Drawingnoun

the creation of artistic drawings;

Drawingnoun

players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots

Drawingnoun

act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source;

Drawingnoun

the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, erasers, markers, styluses, and metals (such as silverpoint).

Rafflenoun

A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.

Rafflenoun

(obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.

Rafflenoun

refuse; rubbish

Raffleverb

(transitive) To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.

Raffleverb

(intransitive) To participate in a raffle.

Rafflenoun

A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.

Rafflenoun

A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.

Rafflenoun

Refuse; rubbish; raff.

Raffleverb

To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.

Raffleverb

To dispose of by means of a raffle; - often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.

Rafflenoun

a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money

Raffleverb

dispose of in a lottery;

Raffle

A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number.