Meaning of 'drag' (Webster Dictionary)
- A confection; a comfit; a drug.
- 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.
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance
with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To fish with a dragnet.
- 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.
- 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.
- To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in
pain or with difficulty.
- The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
- A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under
water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind
of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
- A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
- A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
- 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).
- Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
carriage wheel.
- Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to
progress or enjoyment.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if
clogged.
- The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being
the cope.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft
stone.
- 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.
Meaning of 'drag' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
Example in sentence:- he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly;
- he took a puff on his pipe
Meaning (2):
- clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
Example in sentence:- he went to the party dressed in drag;
- the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag
Meaning (3):
- something tedious and boring
Example in sentence:- peeling potatoes is a drag
Meaning (4):
- something that slows or delays progress
Example in sentence:- taxation is a drag on the economy;
- too many laws are a drag on the use of new land
Meaning (5):
- the act of dragging (pulling with force)
Example in sentence:- the drag up the hill exhausted him
Meaning (6):
- to lag or linger behind
Example in sentence:- But in so many other areas we still are dragging
Meaning (7):
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
Example in sentence:- don't drag me into this business;
- They were swept up by the events
Meaning (8):
- use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu
Example in sentence:- drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen
Meaning (9):
- suck in or take (air)
Example in sentence:- draw a deep breath;
- draw on a cigarette
Meaning (10):
- draw slowly or heavily
Meaning (11):
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
Example in sentence:- He dragged me away from the television set
Meaning (12):
- pull, as against a resistance
Example in sentence:- He dragged the big suitcase behind him;
- These worries were dragging at him
Meaning (13):
- proceed for an extended period of time
Example in sentence:- The speech dragged on for two hours
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