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Definition of 'drag'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) drag
to draw slowly and with effort; haul.

2.  drag
to search with a drag, grapnel, or the like:
to drag a lake for a gun.

3.  drag
to smooth (land) with a drag or harrow.

4.  drag
to introduce or insert:
He drags his war stories into every conversation.

5.  drag
to protract (something) tediously (often fol. by out):
They dragged the discussion out for three hours.

6.  drag
to pull (a graphical image) from one place to another on a computer display screen, esp. by using a mouse.

7. (v.i.) drag
to be drawn or hauled along.

8.  drag
to trail on the ground.

9.  drag
to move heavily or slowly and with great effort.

10.  drag
to feel listless or move in such a manner (often fol. by around):
This heat has everyone dragging around.

11.  drag
to lag behind.

12.  drag
to take part in a drag race.

13.  drag
to take a puff:
to drag on a cigarette.

14. (n.) drag
any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.

15.  drag
a heavy wooden or steel frame drawn over the ground to smooth it.

16.  drag
a sledge for moving heavy objects.

17.  drag
Slang. someone or something tedious; a bore.

18.  drag
the aerodynamic force exerted on an airfoil, airplane, or other aerodynamic body that tends to reduce its forward motion.

19.  drag
a metal shoe that serves as a brake for wagon wheels.

20.  drag
an act of dragging.

21.  drag
slow, laborious procedure.

22.  drag
something that retards progress.

23.  drag
a puff on a cigarette, pipe, etc.

24.  drag
Slang. influence; clout.

25.  drag
Slang. a girl or woman that one is escorting; date.

Definition of 'drag'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) drag, retarding force
the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

2. (noun) drag
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. (noun) drag
something tedious and boring
"peeling potatoes is a drag"

4. (noun) drag
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. (noun) puff, drag, pull
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"

6. (verb) drag
the act of dragging (pulling with force)
"the drag up the hill exhausted him"

7. (verb) drag
pull, as against a resistance
"He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"

8. (verb) haul, hale, cart, drag
draw slowly or heavily
"haul stones"; "haul nets"

9. (verb) embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in
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"

10. (verb) drag
move slowly and as if with great effort

11. (verb) drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back
to lag or linger behind
"But in so many other areas we still are dragging"

12. (verb) puff, drag, draw
suck in or take (air)
"draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"

13. (verb) drag
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"

14. (verb) scuff, drag
walk without lifting the feet

15. (verb) dredge, drag
search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

16. (verb) drag
persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
"He dragged me away from the television set"

17. (verb) drag, drag on, drag out
proceed for an extended period of time
"The speech dragged on for two hours"

Definition of 'drag'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) drag
to pull sth with difficulty
The men dragged the equipment across the yard.

2.  drag
to force sb to go somewhere or do sth
My mom dragged me to the barber shop.

3.  drag
to hang down to the ground as sth moves along
The child walked with her teddy bear dragging behind her.

4.  drag
(of time or an event) to seem to pass slowly
The afternoon dragged.

5.  drag
drag and drop
to move sth from one part of a computer screen to another with the mouse
Drag and drop files into a new folder.

6.  drag
drag your feet
to do sth too slowly
City hall is dragging its feet on this issue.

Definition of 'drag'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) drag
a confection; a comfit; a drug

2. (verb) drag
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

3. (verb) drag
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

4. (verb) drag
to draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty

5. (verb) drag
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

6. (verb) drag
to move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly

7. (verb) drag
to serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back

8. (verb) drag
to fish with a dragnet

9. (verb) drag
the act of dragging; anything which is dragged

10. (verb) drag
a net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc

11. (verb) drag
a kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag

12. (verb) drag
a heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage

13. (verb) drag
a heavy harrow, for breaking up ground

14. (verb) drag
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)

15. (verb) drag
also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel

16. (verb) drag
hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment

17. (verb) drag
motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged

18. (verb) drag
the bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope

19. (verb) drag
a steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone

20. (verb) drag
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

Definition of 'drag'

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. drag
The pull exercised by a magnetic field upon a conductor moving through it or upon the motion of an armature in it.

Translation of 'drag'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to pull, especially by force or roughly She was dragged screaming from her car.
Afrikaans: gesleep	Arabic: يَسْحَب، يُجَرْجِر	Bulgarian: тегля
Brazilian: arrastar	Czech: (vy)táhnout	German: schleppen
Danish: trække; slæbe	Greek: τραβώ	Spanish: llevar a rastras
Estonian: tirima	Farsi: کشاندن	Finnish: vetää
French: tirer, entraîner	Hebrew: לִגרוֹר	Hindi: बलपूर्वक घसीटना, खींचना
Croatian: odvući	Hungarian: húz, vonszol	Indonesian: menyeret
Icelandic: draga, toga	Italian: trascinare, tirare	Japanese: 引っぱる
Korean: 끌어 내다	Lithuanian: tempti, traukti	Latvian: vilkt
Malay: tarik	Dutch: sleuren	Norwegian: dra, trekke, hale
Polish: wlec, ciągnąć	Persian: کشاندن	Pashto: كښ كول
Portuguese: arrastar	Romanian: a trage, a târî	Russian: выволакивать
Slovak: vytiahnuť	Slovenian: povleči	Serbian: odvući
Swedish: släpa, dra	Thai: ดึง	Turkish: sürüklemek, çekip almak
Taiwanese: 拉(尤指強力或粗暴地)	Ukrainian: тягти, волочити	Urdu: زبردستی باہر کھینچنا
Vietnamese: lôi kéo	Chinese: 拉
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