Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
wiredrawing. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
wiredrawing, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
wiredrawing in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
wiredrawing you have here. The definition of the word
wiredrawing will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
wiredrawing, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From wiredraw + -ing.
Noun
wiredrawing (plural wiredrawings)
- gerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one's own purposes.
1840 May 8, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1840, →OCLC, page 58:Out of all that rubbish of Arab idolatries, argumentative theologies, traditions, subtleties, rumours and hypotheses of Greeks and Jews, with their idle wiredrawings, this wild man of the Desert , with his wild sincere heart, earnest as death and life, with his great flashing natural eyesight, had seen into the kernel of the matter.
Verb
wiredrawing
- present participle and gerund of wiredraw