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verb (used with object)
1.
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.
EXPANDto protract (something) or pass (time) tediously or painfully (often followed by out or on): They dragged the discussion out for three hours.
6.
COLLAPSEto pull (a graphical image) from one place to another on a computer display screen, especially 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.
EXPANDto feel listless or apathetic; move listlessly or apathetically (often followed by around): This heat wave has everyone dragging around.
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Dragged
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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.
EXPANDAeronautics. 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, especially 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, especially a main street of a town or city.
37.
COLLAPSEEastern New England. a sledge, as for carrying stones from a field.
adjective
Idiom38.
marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
39.
drag one's feet/heels, to act with reluctance; delay: The committee is dragging its feet coming to a decision.
Origin:
1350–1400; 1920–25 for def. 17; Middle English; both noun and v. probably < Middle Low German dragge grapnel, draggen to dredge, derivative of drag- draw; defs. 29-30, 38, obscurely related to other senses and perhaps a distinct word of independent orig.
1350–1400; 1920–25 for def. 17; Middle English; both noun and v. probably < Middle Low German dragge grapnel, draggen to dredge, derivative of drag- draw; defs. 29-30, 38, obscurely related to other senses and perhaps a distinct word of independent orig.
Related forms
out·drag, verb (used with object), -dragged, -drag·ging.
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Word Origin & History
drag
mid-15c., from O.N. draga, or a dialect 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)). Related:
EXPANDDragged; dragging. 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." To drag (one's) feet (1946, in figurative sense) is supposedly from logging, from a lazy way to use a two-man saw.
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drag  (drāg) Pronunciation Key
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. |
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