Attract vs. Draw — What's the Difference?

To evoke interest, attention, or desire.

To compose or sketch by making lines on a surface.

To be appealing or inviting.

Produce (a picture or diagram) by making lines and marks on paper with a pencil, pen, etc.

To bring about a response or reaction.

Pull or drag (something such as a vehicle) so as to make it follow behind

To cause to draw near or adhere by physical force

Extract (an object) from a container or receptacle

To arouse or compel the interest, admiration, or attention of

Take or obtain (liquid) from a container or receptacle

To possess or use the power of attraction.

Select (a ticket or name) randomly to decide winners in a lottery, opponents in a sporting contest, etc.

(transitive) To pull toward without touching.

Be the cause of (a specified response)

(transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.

Select (a ticket or name) randomly to decide winners in a lottery, opponents in a sporting contest, etc.

(transitive) To incur.

Finish (a contest or game) with an even score

To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.

(in bowls) cause (a bowl) to travel in a curve determined by its bias to the desired point.

To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers.

(of a ship) require (a specified depth of water) to float in

Attraction.

(of a sail) be filled with wind

Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes;

An act of selecting names randomly to decide winners in a lottery, opponents in a sporting contest, etc.

Exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away;

A game or contest that ends with the score even

Be attractive to;

A person or thing that is very attractive or interesting

To cause to approach or adhere by some quality or action.

An act of drawing on a cigarette or cigar

To pull in a specific direction, usually magnetically.

An act of pulling a gun from its holster in order to shoot

A shot causing the ball to deviate slightly

To cause to move after or toward one by applying continuous force; drag

To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading

To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something

To cause to flow forth

To suck or take in (air, for example); inhale.

To require (a specified depth of water) for floating

To take or pull out

To extract or take for one's own use

To make (tea) by steeping.

To eviscerate; disembowel

To cause to come by attracting; attract

To select or take in from a given group, type, or region

To bring to a certain condition or action; lead

To bring about deliberately; provoke

To evoke as a response; elicit

To earn; gain

To withdraw (money).

To use (a check, for example) when paying.

To receive on a regular basis or at a specified time

To take or receive by chance

To take (cards) from a dealer or central stack.

To force (a card) to be played.

To end or leave (a contest) tied or undecided.

To hit or strike (a billiard ball, for example) so as to give it backspin.

To hit (a golf ball) with a draw.

To make tense or taut

To pull back the string of (a bow).

To distort the shape of

To flatten, stretch, or mold (metal) by hammering or die stamping.

To shape or elongate (a wire, for example) by pulling through dies.

To inscribe (a line or lines) with a pencil or other marking implement.

To make a likeness of on a surface, using mostly lines; depict with lines

To portray in writing or speech; depict with words

To formulate or devise from evidence or data at hand

To compose or write out in legal format

To proceed or move steadily

To attract customers or spectators

To pour forth liquid

To cause suppuration.

To take in a draft of air

To steep in or as if in the manner of tea.

To pull out a weapon for use.

To use or call upon part of a fund or supply

To contract or tighten

To conclude a contest without either side winning; tie

To make a likeness with lines on a surface; sketch.

An act of drawing.

The result of drawing.

Something drawn, especially a lot, card, or cards drawn at random.

The arrangement of competitors in a tournament in which the matchups are made at random.

A matchup or opponent in such a tournament.

An inhalation, especially through a pipe or other smoking implement.

One that attracts interest, customers, or spectators

The movable part of a drawbridge.

A special advantage; an edge

A contest ending without either side winning.

A small natural depression that water drains into; a shallow gully.

(Football) A play in which the quarterback drops back as if to pass and then runs or hands off to a running back.

(Sports) A face-off.

(Games) A draw shot.

(Sports) A moderate, usually controlled hook in golf.

To move or develop something.

To sketch; depict with lines; to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.

To deduce or infer.

To steep, leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase.

(transitive) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, etc.

To take into the lungs; to inhale.

(used with prepositions and adverbs) To move; to come or go.

To approach, come to, or arrive at a point in time or a process.

(transitive) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

To withdraw.

(archaic) To draw up (a document).

To exert or experience force.

(transitive) To drag, pull.

(intransitive) To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling.

To pull out, unsheathe (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth).

To undergo the action of pulling or dragging.

(archery) To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting.

(of curtains, etc.) To close.

(of curtains, etc.) To open.

(cards) To take the top card of a deck into hand.

(fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.

To extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out, primarily water or blood.

To drain by emptying; to suck dry.

(figurative) To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

To work as an epispastic; said of a blister, poultice, etc.

(intransitive) To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc.

(analogous) To consume, for example, power.

To change in size or shape.

To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch.

(intransitive) To become contracted; to shrink.

To attract or be attracted.

To attract.

To induce (a reticent person) to speak.

(hunting) To search for game.

To cause.

(intransitive) To exert an attractive force; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.

(usually as draw on or draw upon) To rely on; utilize as a source.

To disembowel.

To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).

To choose by means of a random selection process.

To select by the drawing of lots.

(transitive) To win in a lottery or similar game of chance.

(poker) To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out.

(curling) To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.

(cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

(golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.

(billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.

The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.

The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.

Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.

The act of drawing.

(cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).

(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.

(curling) A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.

(geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.

A bag of cannabis.

Cannabis.

In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.

(poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.

(archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.

(sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce.

To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc.

To pull from a sheath, as a sword.

To remove the contents of

To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive.

To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal.

To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave.

To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.

To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire.

To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank.

To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture.

To represent by lines drawn; to form a sketch or a picture of; to represent by a picture; to delineate; hence, to represent by words; to depict; to describe.

To write in due form; to prepare a draught of; as, to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange.

To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; - said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water.

To withdraw.

To trace by scent; to track; - a hunting term.

To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.

To leave (a contest) undecided; as, the battle or game was drawn.

To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.

To draw a liquid from some receptacle, as water from a well.

To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; - said of a blister, poultice, etc.

To have draught, as a chimney, flue, or the like; to furnish transmission to smoke, gases, etc.

To unsheathe a weapon, especially a sword.

To perform the act, or practice the art, of delineation; to sketch; to form figures or pictures.

To become contracted; to shrink.

To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; - with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing, to get in front; to obtain the lead or increase it; to draw back, to retreat; to draw level, to move up even (with another); to come up to or overtake another; to draw off, to retire or retreat; to draw on, to advance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, draw nigh, or draw towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.

To make a draft or written demand for payment of money deposited or due; - usually with on or upon.

To admit the action of pulling or dragging; to undergo draught; as, a carriage draws easily.

To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

The act of drawing; draught.

A lot or chance to be drawn.

The act of drawing a lot or chance.

A drawn game or battle, etc; a tied game; a tie.

That part of a bridge which may be raised, swung round, or drawn aside; the movable part of a drawbridge. See the Note under Drawbridge.

The result of drawing, or state of being drawn;

That which is drawn or is subject to drawing.

A gully that is shallower than a ravine

An entertainer who attracts large audiences;

The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided;

Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random;

A playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack;

A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer;

(American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage

Poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer;

The act of drawing or hauling something;

Cause to move along the ground by pulling;

Get or derive;

Make a mark or lines on a surface;

Make, formulate, or derive in the mind;

Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover;

Represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface;

Take liquid out of a container or well;

Give a description of;

Select or take in from a given group or region;

Elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.;

Suck in or take (air);

Move or go steadily or gradually;

Remove (a commodity) from (a supply source);

Choose at random;

In baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher;

Bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition;

Cause to flow;

Write a legal document or paper;

Engage in drawing;

Move or pull so as to cover or uncover something;

Allow a draft;

Require a specified depth for floating;

Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him;

Take in, also metaphorically;

Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes;

Thread on or as if on a string;

Pull back the sling of (a bow);

Guide or pass over something;

Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.;

Contract;

Reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die;

Steep; pass through a strainer;

Remove the entrails of;

Flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching;

Cause to localize at one point;

To pull or drag something or someone in a particular direction.

To elicit a reaction or response.

To extract or take out from a source.

To arrive at a conclusion or inference.

Yes, like magnets attracting metal.

No, it can also mean to pull or elicit a response.

Yes, an event can draw or pull in attendees.

Pull.

Yes, inherent traits or behaviors can attract individuals.

They both indicate a movement toward something, but "attract" suggests allure while "draw" implies pulling.

No, it can also refer to eliciting reactions or making inferences.

Not necessarily. Something can attract criticism or negative attention.

Yes, like drawing water from a well.

Allure.