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Dravite
Dravite is a magnesium-rich member of the tourmaline group of minerals, named in the 1880s for the Drava river near its type locality in Slovenia.
Dravyagunavigyan
Dravyagunavigyan (Dravyaguna Vigyana, द्रव्यगुण विज्ञान) is Ayurveda's pharmacology and materia medica, analyzing drugs through Rasa, Guna, Virya, Vipaka, and Prabhava; taught as a 400-hour BAMS subject and covered by WHO training benchmarks.
Draw (chess)
Draw (chess): a game ending without a winner, via stalemate, dead position, agreement, threefold repetition or 50-move claims, or automatic fivefold repetition and 75-move rules under FIDE Laws.
Draw bridge
Draw Bridge (Pick-Up Bridge) is a two-player Honeymoon Bridge variant: 13 cards dealt each, 26-card stock, 13 no-trump tricks decide who draws replacements, then normal Bridge bidding, play, and rubber scoring.
Draw poker
Draw poker: poker family where players discard and replace cards, with betting before and after the draw. Classic form Five Card Draw; variants include lowball and 2-7 triple draw; first printed 1850.
Draw the Line (Aerosmith album)
Draw the Line is Aerosmith's fifth studio album, released December 9, 1977 on Columbia. Recorded chaotically at the Cenacle in Armonk, New York, it peaked at No. 11 in the US and was the last album of the original lineup before Joe Perry's 1979 exit.
DrawBench
DrawBench is a diagnostic benchmark of 200 English text prompts for evaluating text-to-image models, introduced in May 2022 alongside Google's Imagen model and still scored on leaderboards.
Drawbridge
A drawbridge is a movable bridge whose span opens to let boats and ships pass, most often meaning a bascule bridge; the term also covers swing and vertical lift bridges.
Drawer test (orthopedics)
The drawer test is a knee examination maneuver that checks ACL and PCL laxity by pulling the tibia against the femur with the knee flexed to 90 degrees.
Drawing
Drawing, also known as disegno, is the making of an image on a surface through line, tone, or other marks, serving as finished art, preparation, and training.
Drawing Closer
Drawing Closer (余命一年の僕が、余命半年の君と出会った話。) is a 2024 Japanese Netflix romance film directed by Takahiro Miki, starring Ren Nagase and Natsuki Deguchi, adapted from Ao Morita's bestseller about two terminally ill teens in love.
Drawing room
A drawing room, short for "withdrawing room", is a house room where visitors are received and entertained; it was the principal reception room in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.
Drawn textured yarn
Drawn textured yarn (DTY) is a polyester filament yarn made by drawing and false-twist texturing POY, giving it permanent crimp, bulk, and stretch for apparel and home textiles.
Drawn thread work
Drawn thread work is a form of whitework embroidery in which selected warp or weft threads are withdrawn and the remaining threads decorated to create a lace-like effect.
Drawn Together
Drawn Together is an ambiguous title: a 2004-2007 Comedy Central adult animated reality-show parody (3 seasons, 36 episodes, by Silverstein and Jeser), a 2026 Prime Video film adapting Mercedes Ron's Marfil, and a 2018 documentary on comics and stereotypes.
Drawn Together (film)
Drawn Together (Enfrentados: Marfil) is a 2026 Spanish romantic thriller on Prime Video, directed by Óscar Pedraza, starring Ester Expósito and Hugo Diego García, adapted from Mercedes Ron's novel Marfil, first of the Enfrentados duology, released September 9, 2026.
Drax Group
Drax Group is a British renewable energy company that owns Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, which it describes as the UK's largest renewable power station.
Drax power station
Drax power station is a biomass-fired power station near Selby in North Yorkshire, England, operated by Drax Group and formerly the UK's largest coal-fired plant.
Drax the Destroyer
Drax the Destroyer (Arthur Douglas) is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Jim Starlin, first appearing in Iron Man #55 (February 1973) as a being resurrected by Kronos to kill Thanos, later a Guardian of the Galaxy played by Dave Bautista in the MCU.
Drayage
Drayage, also called cartage or haulage, is the short-haul trucking of freight, typically containers, between an intermodal terminal such as a seaport and a nearby customer facility.
Drayk Bowen
Drayk Bowen, Notre Dame Fighting Irish linebacker #34 from St. John, Indiana (Andrean High School); consensus four-star recruit, 2022 Indiana Mr. Football, 2025 team captain with 67 tackles.
Draymond Green
Draymond Green (born 1990, Saginaw, Michigan) is a Golden State Warriors forward-center, four-time NBA champion (2015, 2017, 2018, 2022), 2016-17 Defensive Player of the Year, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and Michigan State's all-time leading rebounder.
Drayton
Drayton is a common English place name borne by several English villages, many notable for Roman-period archaeology, including Roman villas in Somerset, Oxfordshire, and Leicestershire.
Drayton Hall
Drayton Hall is a historic Palladian plantation house on the Ashley River near Charleston, South Carolina, built between 1738 and 1742 for John Drayton, a National Historic Landmark.
Drayton Manor Resort
Drayton Manor Resort is a family theme park and zoo in Fazeley, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, opened in 1950 and known for Thomas Land, Europe's only Thomas & Friends themed zone.
Drayton Roman fort
Drayton Roman fort: unexcavated Roman auxiliary fort near Shifnal, Shropshire, England, established about AD 47 during the Claudian advance; rectangular with triangular annex, about 155 by 205 m, four ditches, garrison of 500 infantry, Scheduled Monument 1020283.
Draža Mihailović
Draža Mihailović (Dragoljub Mihailović, Дража Михаиловић), 1893–1946, Serbian general who led the royalist Chetnik Yugoslav Army in the Homeland in WWII, was executed for collaboration in 1946 and judicially rehabilitated in Belgrade in 2015.
Drazen Dalipagic
Drazen Dalipagic (Дражен Далипагић, Praja), Serbian basketball small forward born 1951 in Mostar, died 2025; Partizan legend, Yugoslavia's all-time top scorer, 1980 Olympic gold, Naismith Hall of Fame 2004.
Dražen Petrović
Dražen Petrović (1964–1993), Croatian shooting guard for Cibona, Real Madrid, Portland, and the Nets; first European on an All-NBA team, 1992 Olympic silver medalist, died at 28 in a German car crash.
Drazin inverse
The Drazin inverse is a unique pseudoinverse of a square matrix that inverts its invertible part and annihilates its nilpotent part, introduced by M. P. Drazin in 1958.