Drag : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Drag	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Drag
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drag n the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid Synonym(s): drag, retarding force 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" something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a 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" 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" Synonym(s): puff, drag, pull the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him" v pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him" draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" Synonym(s): haul, hale, cart, drag 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" Synonym(s): embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in move slowly and as if with great effort to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging" Synonym(s): drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" Synonym(s): puff, drag, draw 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" walk without lifting the feet Synonym(s): scuff, drag search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost Synonym(s): dredge, drag persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set" proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours" Synonym(s): drag, drag on, drag out
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drag \Drag\, v. i. 1. 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. 2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun. --Byron. Long, open panegyric drags at best. -- Gay. 3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her. --Russell. 4. To fish with a dragnet.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drag \Drag\, n. [See 3d {Dredge}.] A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drag \Drag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dragging}.] [OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. [?] See {Draw}.] 1. 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. Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. --Denham. The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. --Tennyson. A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. --Pope. 2. 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. Then while I dragged my brains for such a song. --Tennyson. 3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden. {To drag an anchor} (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship. Syn: See {Draw}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drag \Drag\, n. [See {Drag}, v. t., and cf. {Dray} a cart, and 1st {Dredge}.] 1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. 2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. 3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. 4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.] --Thackeray. 5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. 6. (a) 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). (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag. --J. D. Forbes. 7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. [bd]Had a drag in his walk.[b8] -- Hazlitt. 8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. 9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. 10. (Marine Engin.) 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. {Drag sail} (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also {drift sail}, {drag sheet}, {drag anchor}, {sea anchor}, {floating anchor}, etc. {Drag twist} (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes.