The difference between Draw and Go

When used as nouns, draw means the result of a contest in which neither side has won, whereas go means the act of going.

When used as verbs, draw means to sketch, whereas go means to move through space (especially to or through a place).


check bellow for the other definitions of Draw and Go

  1. Draw as a verb:

    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. (of drinks, especially tea) To leave temporarily so as to allow the flavour to increase. 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. To move; to come or go. To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive. To withdraw. To draw up (a document).

    Examples:

    "He tried to draw a conclusion from the facts."

    "Tea is much nicer if you let it draw for three minutes before pouring."

    "to draw money from a bank"

    "We drew back from the cliff edge."

    "The runners drew level with each other as they approached the finish line."

    "'Draw near to the fire and I will tell you a tale."

    "to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange"

  2. Draw as a verb:

    To exert or experience force. To drag, pull. To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling. To pull out (as a gun from a holster, or a tooth). To undergo the action of pulling or dragging. To pull back the bowstring and its arrow in preparation for shooting. (of curtains, etc.) To close. (of curtains, etc.) To open. To take the top card of a deck into hand.

    Examples:

    "This horse draws well."

    "A ship's sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind."

    "They drew their swords and fought each other."

    "The carriage draws easily."

    "You should draw the curtains at night."

    "She drew the curtains to let in the sunlight."

    "At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card."

  3. Draw as a verb (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. 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. To have a draught; to transmit smoke, gases, etc. To consume, for example, power.

    Examples:

    "'draw water from a well;  draw water for a bath;  the wound drew blood"

    "A ship draws ten feet of water."

    "A chimney or flue draws."

    "The circuit draws three hundred watts."

  4. Draw as a verb:

    To change in size or shape. To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch. To become contracted; to shrink.

    Examples:

    "to draw a mass of metal into wire"

  5. Draw as a verb:

    To attract or be attracted. To attract. To induce a reticent person to speak. To search for game. To cause. To exert an attractive force; to act as an inducement or enticement.

    Examples:

    "The citizens were afraid the casino would draw an undesirable element to their town.  I was drawn to her."

    "He refused to be drawn on the subject"

  6. Draw as a verb:

    (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.

    Examples:

    "She had to draw upon her experience to solve the problem."

  7. Draw as a verb:

    To disembowel.

    Examples:

    "He will be hanged, drawn and quartered."

  8. Draw as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive):

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

    Examples:

    "We drew last time we played.  I drew him last time I played him.  I drew my last game against him."

  9. Draw as a verb (transitive):

    A random selection process. To select by the drawing of lots. To win in a lottery or similar game of chance. To trade in cards for replacements in draw poker games; to attempt to improve one's hand with future cards. See also draw out.

    Examples:

    "The winning lottery numbers were drawn every Tuesday."

    "He drew a prize."

    "Jill has four diamonds; she'll try to draw for a flush."

  10. Draw as a verb (curling):

    To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.

  11. Draw as a verb (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.

  12. Draw as a verb (golf):

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

  13. Draw as a verb (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.

  1. Draw as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The game ended in a draw."

  2. Draw as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The draw is on Saturday."

  3. Draw as a noun:

    Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.

  4. Draw as a noun (cricket):

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

  5. Draw as a noun (golf):

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

  6. Draw as a noun (curling):

    A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.

  7. Draw as a noun (geography):

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

  8. Draw as a noun (colloquial):

    A bag of cannabis

  9. Draw as a noun:

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

  10. Draw as a noun (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.

  11. Draw as a noun (archery):

    The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.

  12. Draw as a noun (sports):

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

  1. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To move: To move through space (especially to or through a place). To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. To leave; to move away. To walk; to travel on one's feet.

    Examples:

    "Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? There's no public transit where I'm going. Wow, look at him go!"

    "Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell."

    "Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library."

    "We've only gone twenty miles today. This car can go circles around that one."

    "We went swimming. Let's go shopping."

    "Please don't go! I really must be going. Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night."

  2. Go as a verb (intransitive, chiefly, of a, machine):

    To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

    Examples:

    "The engine just won't go anymore."

  3. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To start; to begin (an action or process).

    Examples:

    "Get ready, get set, go! [[on your marks, get set, go On your marks, get set, go]]! [[on your marks On your marks]], set, go!"

    "Here goes nothing. Let's go and hunt."

  4. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To take a turn, especially in a game.

    Examples:

    "It’s your turn; go."

  5. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To attend.

    Examples:

    "I go to school at the schoolhouse. She went to Yale. They only go to church on Christmas."

  6. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To proceed: To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). To proceed (especially to do something foolish).

    Examples:

    "That went well. "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks."

    "Why'd you have to go and do that?"

    "Why'd you have to go do that?"

    "He just went and punched the guy. "

  7. Go as a verb:

    To follow or travel along (a path): To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). To travel or pass along.

    Examples:

    "Let's go this way for a while."

    "She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was."

  8. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

    Examples:

    "This property goes all the way to the state line."

  9. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To lead (to a place); to give access to.

    Examples:

    "Does this road go to Fort Smith?"

  10. Go as a verb (copula):

    To become.

    Examples:

    "You'll go blind. I went crazy / went mad. After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight."

  11. Go as a verb:

    To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.

  12. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To continuously or habitually be in a state.

    Examples:

    "I don't want my children to go hungry. We went barefoot in the summer."

  13. Go as a verb:

    To come to (a certain condition or state).

    Examples:

    "they went into debt'', ''she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock'', ''the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global"

  14. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.

    Examples:

    " The traffic light went straight from green to red."

  15. Go as a verb:

    To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

    Examples:

    "How did your meeting with Smith go?"

  16. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To tend (toward a result).

    Examples:

    "Well, that goes to show you. These experiences go to make us stronger."

  17. Go as a verb:

    To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

    Examples:

    "qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter"

  18. Go as a verb (intransitive, of time):

    To pass, to be used up: To elapse, to pass; to slip away. To end or disappear. To be spent or used up.

    Examples:

    "The time went slowly."

    "After three days, my headache finally went."

    "His money went on drink."

  19. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To die.

  20. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be discarded.

    Examples:

    "This chair has got to go."

  21. Go as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    To be lost or out: To be lost. To be out.

  22. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To break down or apart: To collapse or give way, to break apart. To break down or decay.

    Examples:

    "This meat is starting to go off. My mind is going. She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go."

  23. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be sold.

    Examples:

    "Everything must go. The car went for five thousand dollars."

  24. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

    Examples:

    "The property shall go to my wife. The award went to Steven Spielberg."

  25. Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

    Examples:

    "How long can you go without water? We've gone without your help for a while now. I've gone ten days now without a cigarette. Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!"

  26. Go as a verb (transitive, sports):

    To have a certain record.

    Examples:

    "They've gone one for three in this series. The team is going five in a row."

  27. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be authoritative, accepted, or valid: To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. To be accepted. To be valid.

    Examples:

    "Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?"

    "Anything goes around here."

  28. Go as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To say (something), to make a sound: To say (something, aloud or to oneself). To make the (specified) sound. To sound; to make a noise.

    Examples:

    "I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"

    "As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid."

    "Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom"."

    "I woke up just before the clock went."

  29. Go as a verb:

    To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

    Examples:

    "The tune goes like this. As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic."

  30. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To resort (to).

    Examples:

    "I'll go to court if I have to."

  31. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To apply or subject oneself to: To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). To work (through or over), especially mentally.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to join a sports team.'' ''I wish you'd go and get a job.'' ''He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach."

    "He's going to leave town tomorrow''."

    "You didn't have to go to such trouble. I never thought he'd go so far as to call you. She went to great expense to help them win."

    "I've gone over this a hundred times. Let's not go into that right now."

  32. Go as a verb (intransitive, often followed by a preposition):

    To fit (in a place, or together with something): To fit. To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. To belong (somewhere).

    Examples:

    "Do you think the sofa will go through the door? The belt just barely went around his waist."

    "This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes. White wine goes better with fish than red wine."

    "My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe. This piece of the jigsaw goes on the other side."

  33. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To date.

    Examples:

    "How long having they been going together? He's been going with her for two weeks."

  34. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To attack: To fight or attack. To attack.

    Examples:

    "I went at him with a knife."

  35. Go as a verb:

    To be in general; to be usually.

    Examples:

    "As sentences go, this one is pretty boring."

  36. Go as a verb (transitive):

    To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

    Examples:

    "Let's go halves on this."

  37. Go as a verb (transitive):

    To yield or weigh.

    Examples:

    "Those babies go five tons apiece."

  38. Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.

    Examples:

    "That's as high as I can go. We could go two fifty."

    "I'll go a ten-spot. I'll go you a shilling."

  39. Go as a verb (transitive, colloquial):

    To enjoy.

    Examples:

    "I could go a beer right about now."

  40. Go as a verb (intransitive, colloquial):

    To urinate or defecate.

    Examples:

    "I really need to go. Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?"

  1. Go as a noun (uncommon):

    The act of going.

  2. Go as a noun:

    A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

    Examples:

    "You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go."

    "It’s your go."

  3. Go as a noun:

    An attempt, a try.

    Examples:

    "I’ll give it a go."

  4. Go as a noun:

    An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.

    Examples:

    "We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go."

  5. Go as a noun:

    An act; the working or operation.

  6. Go as a noun (slang, dated):

    A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.

  7. Go as a noun (dated):

    The fashion or mode.

    Examples:

    "quite the go"

  8. Go as a noun (dated):

    Noisy merriment.

    Examples:

    "a high go"

  9. Go as a noun (slang, archaic):

    A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.

  10. Go as a noun:

    Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

    Examples:

    "There is no go in him."

  11. Go as a noun (cribbage):

    The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

  12. Go as a noun:

    A period of activity.

    Examples:

    "ate it all in one go"

  13. Go as a noun (obsolete, British slang):

    A dandy; a fashionable person.

  1. Go as a noun (board game):

    A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.