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What (who) is drag - definition
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Drag (computer); Drag (disambiguation); The Drag (disambiguation); Drag (album); The Drag
drag
Drag
·vi To fish with a dragnet.
II. Drag ·noun A confection; a comfit; a drug.
III. Drag ·vt A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
IV. Drag ·vi To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
V. Drag ·vt The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
VI. Drag ·vt A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
VII. Drag ·vt Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
VIII. Drag ·vt A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
IX. Drag ·vt The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
X. Drag ·vt Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
XI. Drag ·vt Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
XII. Drag ·vt To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
XIII. Drag ·vi To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
XIV. Drag ·vt A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
XV. Drag ·vt A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, ·etc.
XVI. Drag ·vt 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).
XVII. Drag ·vi 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.
XVIII. Drag ·vt 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.
XIX. Drag ·vt 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, ·vi, 3.
XX. Drag ·vt 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.
drag
I. v. a.
Draw, pull, haul, tug, draw heavily and slowly.
II. v. n.
1.
Trail, be drawn along.
2.
Linger, move slowly, make slow progress.
Examples of use of drag
1. The driver was pro drag racer Troy Warren Critchley, an Australian drag racer now based in Wylie, Texas.
2. However, Fair deflected Arjun Halappa‘s drag–flick.
3. Many requests drag on without resolution for years.
4. Unused packing crates lay squashed on the settlement‘s main drag.
5. Rising energy prices were probably the single biggest drag on consumer spending and they are likely to remain a drag for sometime.