Timeline for Meaning of ‘draw out’
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| Feb 26, 2017 at 19:06 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 18:14 | answer | added | Michael Lorton | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 18:01 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 17:05 | answer | added | Nemo | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 23, 2014 at 13:43 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/503175611066892289 | ||
| Aug 23, 2014 at 13:41 | answer | added | Fattie | timeline score: -4 | |
| Aug 23, 2014 at 13:35 | comment | added | Fattie | Note the confusion / whatever with drawn out (with an "n") | |
| Aug 23, 2014 at 11:50 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @JanusBahsJacquet I think the actual quote is: "His voice seemed to draw out soft and subtle, it penetrated her nerves" I'd say prolongare = draw out and dolcemente = soft and gentle | |
| Aug 23, 2014 at 10:50 | comment | added | Dan Bron | In that context, it means "come out [out his mouth], taking its own sweet time". In general, to "draw out" either means to "protract / prolong" or "elicit". In your quote, it's that his speech is protracted (for the meaning of "induce to emerge" to apply here, the verb would have to have been used transitively, but in your quote it's used intransitively). | |
| Aug 23, 2014 at 10:40 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Could you give some more context, i.e., the sentences surrounding this sentence? There are several ways I can think of interpreting draw out, but it’s impossible to tell which is the correct one without knowing what the greater context is. It definitely has to do with the way his voice comes out of him, how it sounds—but a more detailed description requires the whole scenario. | |
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| Aug 23, 2014 at 10:36 | history | edited | Janus Bahs Jacquet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 23, 2014 at 10:35 | history | asked | Momo Persepolis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |