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Princeton's WordNet

  1. draggingadjective

    marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner

    "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"

Wiktionary

  1. draggingnoun

    An instance of something being dragged.

Wikipedia

  1. dragging

    In computing, a pointing device gesture or mouse gesture (or simply gesture) is a way of combining pointing device or finger movements and clicks that the software recognizes as a specific computer event and responds to accordingly. They can be useful for people who have difficulties typing on a keyboard. For example, in a web browser, a user can navigate to the previously viewed page by pressing the right pointing device button, moving the pointing device briefly to the left, then releasing the button.

ChatGPT

  1. dragging

    Dragging is a term used to describe an action in which an object is pulled along a surface using consistent force or effort. It usually implies a certain level of difficulty or resistance. In computer terminology, it refers to the action of selecting and moving a digital object or piece of information to a new location on a graphical interface, usually achieved by holding down a mouse button while moving the mouse.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dragging

    of Drag

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. dragging

    An old word for dredging.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dragging in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dragging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of dragging in a Sentence

  1. Patrick Warren:

    The trolls would create and highlight the most divisive threads in the conversation around these hashtags, with an aim of dragging the conversation in that more divisive direction.

  2. Kyosuke Suzuki:

    The market had been a bit optimistic about an agreement so it was a bit of a surprise, but from the past experience during the euro zone debt crisis, the market is also accustomed to negotiations dragging on until the very last minutes. So while the tail risk appears to be rising, there is no panic in the market.

  3. Clive Staples Lewis:

    Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now

  4. Randy Frederick:

    Oil prices fell off a little bit after the market opened and that is probably what is dragging the market down.

  5. Matt Smith of U.S.-based ClipperData:

    The latest (U.S. regulatory) CFTC data show that speculators increased their shorts (aka bearish bets) by the biggest volume on record in last week's data for WTI crude. This is the biggest increase since data began back in 2006, dragging the net long position in WTI to its lowest since February, another bearish development from the CFTC data has been gasoline positioning. Speculative positions in gasoline have moved to a record net short position as hedge funds bet on an ongoing gasoline supply glut.

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