DRAWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drawer mean? 

• DRAWER (noun)
  The noun DRAWER has 3 senses:

1. a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out

2. the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else

3. an artist skilled at drawing

  Familiarity information: DRAWER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("drawer" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)

Meronyms (parts of "drawer"):

lock (a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed)

Holonyms ("drawer" is a part of...):

buffet; counter; sideboard (a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers)

bureau; chest; chest of drawers; dresser (furniture with drawers for keeping clothes)

chiffonier; commode (a tall elegant chest of drawers)

desk (a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments)

Derivation:

draw (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("drawer" is a kind of...):

money dealer; money handler (a person who receives or invests or pays out money)

Derivation:

draw (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source))

Sense 3

Meaning:

An artist skilled at drawing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

draftsman; drawer

Hypernyms ("drawer" is a kind of...):

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drawer"):

cartoonist (a person who draws cartoons)

pavement artist (someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money))

sketcher (someone who draws sketches)

Derivation:

draw (engage in drawing)

draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface)

 Context examples 

The very first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I wondered, at first, why I so often found Sophy writing in a copy-book; and why she always shut it up when I appeared, and hurried it into the table-drawer.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So this wonderful incident, which would make such a headline for the old paper, must still wait its turn in the editorial drawer.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?" she muttered, shutting her drawer with a jerk.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There is no great harm in that, remarked the tooth-drawer, for the sheep give many folk their living.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There it is, sir,” said I, pointing to the drawer, where it lay on the floor behind a table and still covered with the sheet.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

For a time I lost sight of him, and I heard him opening drawer after drawer, as though he were in search of something.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient rummage around opening and unpacking drawers or closets?

(NPI - Rummage Around Opening and Unpacking Drawers or Closets, NCI Thesaurus)

For answer, he took a big red book out of a drawer.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)