Difference between Lottery and Drawing

What is the difference between Lottery and Drawing?

Lottery as a noun is a scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks. while Drawing as a noun is a picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

Lottery

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks. An affair of chance. Allotment; a thing allotted.

Example sentence: When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Drawing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move or develop something.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.The act of producing such a picture.Such acts practices as a graphic art formAn act or event in which the outcome (e.g. desigating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.

Example sentence: Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

We hope you now know whether to use Lottery or Drawing in your sentence.

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