Undraw vs. Curtain — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Undraw and Curtain
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Definitions
Undraw
To draw to one side, as a curtain.
Curtain
A curtain is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water. A curtain is also the movable screen or drape in a theater that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop/background.Curtains are often hung on the inside of a building's windows to block the passage of light.
Undraw
(transitive) To draw aside or open; to pull back a layer of fabric, e.g. a curtain.
She undrew the curtain to reveal the shining rays of the sun.
Curtain
A piece of fabric or other material that hangs in a window or open space as a decoration, shade, screen, or divider.
Undraw
(transitive) To clear or erase part of a drawing.
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Curtain
Something that functions as or resembles a screen, cover, divider, or barrier
The curtain of mist before the mountain.
A heavy curtain of artillery fire.
Undraw
To draw aside or open; to draw back.
Angels undrew the curtain of the throne.
Curtain
The movable screen or drape in a theater or hall that separates the stage from the auditorium or that serves as a backdrop.
Curtain
The rising or opening of a theater curtain at the beginning of a performance or act.
Curtain
The time at which a theatrical performance begins or is scheduled to begin.
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Curtain
The fall or closing of a theater curtain at the end of a performance or act.
Curtain
The part of a rampart or parapet connecting two bastions or gates.
Curtain
(Architecture) A curtain wall.
Curtain
The end.
Curtain
Absolute ruin
"If the employee doesn't shape up, it's curtains" (Business Week).
Curtain
Death.
Curtain
To provide (something) with a curtain or curtains.
Curtain
To close off (something) with a curtain or curtains.
Curtain
A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
Curtain
A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
Curtain
The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.
Curtain
(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
Curtain
Death.
Curtain
(architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
Curtain
A flag; an ensign.
Curtain
To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
Curtain
(figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
Curtain
A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
Curtain
That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
Curtain
That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
Curtain
A flag; an ensign; - in contempt.
A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.
Curtain
To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
So when the sun in bedCurtained with cloudy red.
Curtain
Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
Curtain
Any barrier to communication or vision;
A curtain of secrecy
A curtain of trees
Curtain
Provide with drapery;
Curtain the bedrooms