0 a box-shaped container, without a top, that is part of a piece of furniture. It slides in and out to open and close and is used for keeping things in:
1 → underpants
2 a wide but not very deep container, open at the top, that is part of a piece of furniture and that a person can pull partly out from its front to put things in and then push back to make it even with the front of the furniture:
3 the person who writes a cheque telling their bank to pay an amount of money to someone:
4 the person who writes a bill of exchange telling someone to pay an amount of money at a stated time:
She pulled out the drawer.
He came across some of his old love letters in his wife's drawer.
We searched all morning for the missing papers and finally discovered them in a drawer.
They discovered a stash of money hidden at the back of a drawer.
So she puts the candy in the red drawer, and then she decides to go shopping.
If the drawer is locked, the robot would try to open it exerting more and more force, until its force limits would be reached.
Another interpretation of the conference theme appeared in papers which explored the act of representing space where the delegate was the 'drawer'.
