to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
2.
to search with a drag, grapnel, or the like: They dragged the lake for the body of the missing man.
3.
to level and smooth (land) with a drag or harrow.
4.
to introduce; inject; insert: He drags his honorary degree into every discussion.
5.
to protract (something) or pass (time) tediously or painfully (often fol. by out or on): They dragged the discussion out for three hours.
6.
to pull (a graphical image) from one place to another on a computer display screen, esp. by using a mouse.
–verb (used without object)
7.
to be drawn or hauled along.
8.
to trail on the ground.
9.
to move heavily or with effort.
10.
to proceed or pass with tedious slowness: The parade dragged by endlessly.
11.
to feel listless or apathetic; move listlessly or apathetically (often fol. by around): This heat wave has everyone dragging around.
12.
to lag behind.
13.
to use a drag or grapnel; dredge.
14.
to take part in a drag race.
15.
to take a puff: to drag on a cigarette.
–noun
16.
Nautical.
a.
a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel.
b.
resistance to the movement of a hull through the water.
c.
any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed.
d.
any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor.
e.
any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
17.
Agriculture. a heavy wooden or steel frame drawn over the ground to smooth it.
18.
Slang. someone or something tedious; a bore: It's a drag having to read this old novel.
19.
a stout sledge or sled.
20.
Aeronautics. the aerodynamic force exerted on an airfoil, airplane, or other aerodynamic body that tends to reduce its forward motion.
21.
a four-horse sporting and passenger coach with seats inside and on top.
22.
a metal shoe to receive a wheel of heavy wagons and serve as a brake on steep grades.
23.
something that retards progress.
24.
an act of dragging.
25.
slow, laborious movement or procedure; retardation.
26.
a puff or inhalation on a cigarette, pipe, etc.
27.
Hunting.
a.
the scent left by a fox or other animal.
b.
something, as aniseed, dragged over the ground to leave an artificial scent.
c.
Also called drag hunt.a hunt, esp. a fox hunt, in which the hounds follow an artificial scent.
28.
Angling.
a.
a brake on a fishing reel.
b.
the sideways pull on a fishline, as caused by a crosscurrent.
29.
clothing characteristically associated with one sex when worn by a person of the opposite sex: a Mardi Gras ball at which many of the dancers were in drag.
30.
clothing characteristic of a particular occupation or milieu: Two guests showed up in gangster drag.
31.
Also called comb.Masonry. a steel plate with a serrated edge for dressing a stone surface.
32.
Metallurgy. the lower part of a flask. Compare cope2(def. 5).
33.
Slang. influence: He claims he has drag with his senator.
34.
Slang. a girl or woman that one is escorting; date.
35.
Informal. a street or thoroughfare, esp. a main street of a town or city.
Eastern New England. a sledge, as for carrying stones from a field.
–adjective
38.
marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
—Idiom
39.
drag one's feet or heels, to act with reluctance; delay: The committee is dragging its feet coming to a decision.
[Origin: 1350–1400; 1920–25 for def. 17; ME; both n. and v. prob. < MLG dragge grapnel, draggen to dredge, deriv. of drag-draw; defs. 29-30, 38, obscurely related to other senses and perh. a distinct word of independent orig.]
1440, from O.N. draga, or a dial. variant of O.E. dragan "to draw," from P.Gmc. *dragan "to draw, pull," from PIE base *dhragh- "to draw, drag on the ground" (cf. Skt. dhrajati "pulls, slides in," Rus. drogi "wagon," and related to L. trahere; see tract (1)). Meaning "to take a puff" (of a cigarette, etc.) is from 1914. Sense of "annoying, boring person or thing" is 1813; sense of "women's clothing worn by a man" is said to be 1870 theater slang, from the sensation of long skirts trailing on the floor (another guess is Yiddish trogn "to wear," from Ger. tragen); drag queen is from 1941. Drag-out "violent fight" is from c.1859. Drag racing (1954) is from slang sense of "wagon, buggy" (1755), because a horse would drag it. By 1851 this was transferred to "street," as in the phrase main drag, and it was adopted by hot rodders for "race on city streets." Dragster is also from 1954. Dragnet is recorded from 1541, originally in fishing. To drag (one's) feet (1946, in fig. sense) is supposedly from logging, from the way to goof off while working a two-man saw.
the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
2.
something that slows or delays progress; "taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"
3.
something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"
4.
clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man); "he went to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag"
5.
a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly" [syn: puff]
6.
the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"
verb
1.
pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
2.
draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: haul]
3.
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn: embroil]
4.
move slowly and as if with great effort
5.
to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
6.
suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" [syn: puff]
7.
use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu; "drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen"
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A force acting on a moving body, opposite in direction to the movement of the body, caused by the interaction of the body and the medium it moves through. The strength of drag usually depends on the velocity of the body. ◇ Drag caused by buildup of pressure in front of the moving body and a decrease in pressure behind the body is called pressure drag. It is an important factor in the design of aerodynamically efficient shapes for cars and airplanes. ◇ Drag caused by the viscosity of the medium as the molecules along the body's surface move through it is called skin drag or skin friction. It is an important factor in the design of efficient surface materials for cars, airplanes, boat hulls, skis, and swimsuits. Compare lift. See Note at aerodynamics.
Drag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dragging.] [OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. ? See Draw.]1. To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. --Denham. The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. --Tennyson. A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. --Pope. 2. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag. Then while I dragged my brains for such a song. --Tennyson. 3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden. To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship. Syn: See Draw.
Drag\, v. i. 1. To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold. 2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. --Byron. Long, open panegyric drags at best. -- Gay. 3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her. --Russell. 4. To fish with a dragnet.
Drag\, n. [See Drag, v. t., and cf. Dray a cart, and 1st Dredge.]1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. 2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. 3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. 4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] --Thackeray. 5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. 6. (a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below). (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. --J. D. Forbes. 7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." -- Hazlitt. 8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. 9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. 10. (Marine Engin.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3. Drag sail (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also drift sail, drag sheet, drag anchor, sea anchor, floating anchor, etc. Drag twist (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes.
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