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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. Peter McWilliams:

    Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

  2. President Barack Obama on Thursday:

    Imagine the images on the screen flashed around the world as we were dragging parents away from their children, and putting them in detention centers, and then systematically sending them out, nobody thinks that that is realistic.

  3. 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 minute. So while the tail risk appears to be rising, there is no panic in the market.

  4. Sidonius Apollinaris:

    at Prusianum, as the other (estate) is called, (the young) Tonantius and his brothers turned out of their beds for us because we could not be always dragging our gear about: they are surely the elect among the nobles of our own age

  5. Paul Lopez:

    Just release the damned thing already, you guys have been dragging on this marketing hype for years and your competitors are getting to market well ahead of you.

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