If you draw a comparison, parallel, or distinction, you compare or contrast two different ideas, systems, or other things. literary critics drawing comparisons between George Sand and George Eliot
Also termed an allotment In single-copy sales, the number of copies of each issue of a particular title that are distributed to specific wholesalers and retail outlets Determined on the basis of a title's sales history or typical sales of similar titles in a specific store or area
Periodic advances of funds according to the schedule of payments in a construction loan agreement Also called advance, disbursement, payout, progress payment, or takedown
To draw something means to choose it or to be given it, as part of a competition, game, or lottery. We delved through a sackful of letters to draw the winning name Draw is also a noun. the draw for the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup