drag
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).
Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled or dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.
Inflected forms:
form: drags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dragging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dragged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dragged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: drug
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: drug
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
form: more drag
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most drag
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.
gloss: Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A high thrust-to-weight ratio helps a rocket to overcome the effects of gravity drag.
gloss: A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: "He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour."
gloss: A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A puff on a cigarette or joint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: He got high after just one drag of the joint.
Give me a drag on that roach!
gloss: Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag.
December 24, 1865, James David Forbes, letter to Dr. Symonds
My lectures […] were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.
Yes, I wish that for just one time / You could stand inside my shoes / You'd know what a drag it is / To see you
gloss: A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: I’m down here readin’ for my little go during the Long, only I come over from Baymouth pretty often in my drag…
Alcee Arobin and Mrs. Highcamp called for her one bright afternoon in Arobin's drag.
gloss: A street.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: the main drag
a back drag
gloss: The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: to run a drag
gloss: A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: dray, stoneboat
a stone drag
gloss: The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A pulled load.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A northbound drag of furnace coal on the former South Yorkshire Joint Line crosses the East Coast main line near Black Carr behind Class "O4/1" 2-8-0 No. 63693.
gloss: A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Had a drag in his walk.
gloss: Witch house music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “Our music is not like some other types where the energy is back and forth – music considered drag is like giving up oneself, to be pulled and controlled,” she says.
Whatever the appellation, these artists are doing some amazing stuff. Haunted house and drag are probably the most apposite terms because the music sounds like ghostly apparitions of old dance tunes, only at half-speed.
They call this music drag because it's like dance music dragged down by the ponderous weight of existence (there's a Balam Acab track called Heavy Living Things); they call it witch house because it haunts you long after you stop listening.
In your own words, what is drag or witch house music?
gloss: The last position in a line of hikers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Okay, I'll take point, Kate, you take drag.
gloss: A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A device for guiding wood to the saw.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mailcoach.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A prison sentence of three months.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: The sodger who done it was quodded, but only for a drag, and he swore to God as how he’d do for me the next time as he comed across me.
1869, A Merchant. Editor: Frank Henderson, Six Years in the Prisons of England
The copper knew I did that job, and had me up on suspicion some time after, and gave me a drag (three months) over it. The next bit I did was a 'sixer' (six months), and I escaped from prison in about three weeks after I got it.
gloss: To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's drag this load of wood over to the shed.
The misbehaving child was dragged out of the classroom.
I knew where I didn't want to land so with some aggressive steering I was able to crab into the wind and land successfully on an open plowed farm field some 50 yards west of the hardball road I had seen, next to what seemed at the time to be a T intersection that led off to the east. Although I landed softly, there was a stiff 15-knot wind so I was getting drug a little bit. On my back I dug my heels in and reached up to pop both canopy releases, but on better thought decided against it, as the parachute would probably blow across the road.
gloss: To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
pos: verb
examples: Time seems to drag when you're waiting for a bus.
The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.
a. 1732, John Gay, epistle to a Lady
Long, open panegyric drags at best.
The Irishman is the director’s longest drama, but it never drags.
gloss: To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
pos: verb
examples: Dragging yourself out of a warm bed in the early hours of a wintry morning to go for a hike in the woods: It’s not an easy thing for some to do, but the visual treasures that await could be well worth the effort. If the weather conditions and the local flora are just right, you might come across fleeting, delicate frozen formations sprouting from certain plant stems, literally a garden of ice.
gloss: To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
pos: verb
examples: have dragged a lingering life
You aren't going to be able to carry any more stuff. You're dragging around all that junk.
gloss: To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
pos: verb
examples: A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.
gloss: To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
pos: verb
examples: Drag the file into the window to open it.
gloss: To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
pos: verb
examples: The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump.
gloss: To hit or kick off target.
pos: verb
examples: Arsenal were struggling for any sort of rhythm and Aaron Lennon dragged an effort inches wide as Tottenham pressed for a second.
gloss: To fish with a dragnet.
pos: verb
gloss: To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
pos: verb
gloss: To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
pos: verb
gloss: To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: while I dragged my brains for such a song
gloss: To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: You just drag him 'cause he's got more money than you.
gloss: To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To drag something on.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
slang
transitive
examples: Mate, you're just dragging it now.
gloss: Dragged on; unnecessary or superfluous, especially for an already settled issue; too much.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
slang
examples: Wallah, the task is so drag.
Synonyms: drag
draw
hale
lug
schlep
tug
Antonyms: leave
push
rest
Related words: dragnet
carry
lift
lurch
yank
Derived words: antidrag
cash drag
cash-drag
danna-drag
dragadiddle
dragbar
drag bit
drag boat
drag bolt
dragbox
drag bunt
drag-chain
drag chain
drag chute
drag coefficient
dragfooted
draggy
drag handle
draghound
drag hunt
dragless
draglift
draglink
dragman
dragmark
drag parachute
drag path
drag race
drag racer
drag racing
drag racing boat
dragrope
dragsman
dragstrip
dragway
fiscal drag
gravity drag
lift-to-drag ratio
main drag
microdrag
parasitic drag
Poynting-Robertson drag
sand drag
toe drag
volatility drag
wave drag
underdrag
drag-along right
drag-and-drop
drag and drop
drag-ass
drag ass
drag click
drag down
drag-drop
draggability
draggable
draggage
dragger
draggle
drag in
drag into
dragline
drag on
drag one's balls across
drag one's feet
drag one's heels
drag out
dragster
drag the chain
drag through the dirt
drag through the mud
drag up
left-drag
look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards
one's ass is dragging
outdrag
redrag
right-drag
undragged
updrag
what the cat dragged in
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