drag

Definitions

1. 1noun

   A confection; a comfit; a drug.

2. 2transitive verb

   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.

3. 3transitive verb

   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.

4. 4transitive verb

   To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

5. 5intransitive verb

   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.

6. 6intransitive verb

   To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

7. 7intransitive verb

   To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

8. 8intransitive verb

   To fish with a dragnet.

9. 9transitive verb

   The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

10. 10transitive verb

    A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

11. 11transitive verb

    A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

12. 12transitive verb

    A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.

13. 13transitive verb

    A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

14. 14transitive verb

    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).

15. 15transitive verb

    Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

16. 16transitive verb

    Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

17. 17transitive verb

    Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

18. 18transitive verb

    The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

19. 19transitive verb

    A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

20. 20transitive verb

    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.

21. 21noun

    the act of dragging (pulling with force)

    "the drag up the hill exhausted him"

22. 22noun

    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"

    Synonyms

    puffpull
23. 23noun

    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"

24. 24noun

    something tedious and boring

    "peeling potatoes is a drag"

25. 25noun

    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"

26. 26noun

    the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

27. 27verb

    proceed for an extended period of time

    "The speech dragged on for two hours"

28. 28verb

    persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting

    "He dragged me away from the television set"

29. 29verb

    suck in or take (air)

    "draw a deep breath"

    "draw on a cigarette"

    Synonyms

    drawpuff
30. 30verb

    search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

    Synonyms

    dredge
31. 31verb

    pull, as against a resistance

    "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"

    "These worries were dragging at him"

32. 32verb

    draw slowly or heavily

    "haul stones"

    "haul nets"

    Synonyms

    carthalehaul
33. 33verb

    walk without lifting the feet

    Synonyms

    scuff
34. 34verb

    to lag or linger behind

    "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"

    Synonyms

    trail
35. 35verb

    move slowly and as if with great effort

36. 36verb

    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"

37. 37verb

    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"

    Synonyms

    embroilsweeptangle