drag
/dɹæɡ/ noun B2- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it. · When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object. · A high thrust-to-weight ratio helps a rocket to overcome the effects of gravity drag.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint. · He got high after just one drag of the joint.· Give me a drag on that roach!
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. · Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag.· December 24, 1865, James David Forbes, letter to Dr. Symonds My lectures […] were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
Plural drags
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- drag down To cause (other people or another person) to suffer the s...
- drag in Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, in.
- drag into To involve a reluctant person with a difficult or dangero...
- drag on To last too long.
- drag out To extend or lengthen excessively; to draw out.
- drag up To remind people of (something, usually unpleasant, from ...
From the library
“You have spoken truly, Maximilian; according to the care we bestow upon it, death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body.
A WOLF, meeting a big well-fed Mastiff with a wooden collar about his neck asked him who it was that fed him so well and yet compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went.
It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly.
“No doubt we had, but I beg you won’t try to drag me into the matter, Mr.
Other matches
- drag To pull along a surface or through a medium, so... B1
- drag To perform as a drag queen or drag king. C2
- drag A performance art form associated with the LGBT... C2
- drag down To cause
- drag in Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- drag into To involve a reluctant person with a difficult ...
- drag on To last too long.
- drag out To extend or lengthen excessively
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