To drag something means to physically pull it, like when you drag your sofa to the other side of the living room in order to get a better view of the TV.
A confection; a comfit; a drug.
Noun
the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"
Noun
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"
Noun
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"
Noun
something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"
Noun
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"
Noun
the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
Verb
proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"
Verb
persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"
Verb
suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
Verb
search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
Verb
pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
Verb
draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"
Verb
walk without lifting the feet
Verb
to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
Verb
move slowly and as if with great effort
Verb
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"
Verb
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"
n.
A confection; a comfit; a drug.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in
pain or with difficulty.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance
with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
v. i.
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
v. i.
To fish with a dragnet.
v. t.
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
v. t.
A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under
water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
v. t.
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind
of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
v. t.
A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
v. t.
A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
v. t.
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).
v. t.
Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
carriage wheel.
v. t.
Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to
progress or enjoyment.
v. t.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if
clogged.
v. t.
The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being
the cope.
v. t.
A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft
stone.
v. t.
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
Drag
Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust.
The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.2.
Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.3.
Have dragged a lingering life.
Drag
The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.
Long, open panegyric drags at best.3.
A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.4.
Drag
My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.7.
A confection; a comfit; a drug.
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;
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.
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
Usage Examples
Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.
Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
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Other Usage ExamplesI can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.
Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
I think it's probably best to work out in the morning to get it out of the way. My ultimate top tip is to drag yourself, even if you have to roll yourself out of your bed and in to a sit-up - it's really not that bad once you start.
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.
I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.
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