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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
drag
n 1: the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
[syn: drag, retarding force]
2: 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"
3: something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"
4: 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"
5: 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" [syn: puff, drag, pull]
6: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the
hill exhausted him"
v 1: pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase
behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
2: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn:
haul, hale, cart, drag]
3: 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" [syn: embroil, tangle, sweep,
sweep up, drag, drag in]
4: move slowly and as if with great effort
5: to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still
are dragging" [syn: drag, trail, get behind, hang
back, drop behind, drop back]
6: suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a
cigarette" [syn: puff, drag, draw]
7: 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"
8: walk without lifting the feet [syn: scuff, drag]
9: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something
valuable or lost [syn: dredge, drag]
10: persuade to come away from something attractive or
interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"
11: proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged
on for two hours" [syn: drag, drag on, drag out]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Drag \Drag\, n. [See 3d Dredge.]
A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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Dragged by the cords which through his feet were
thrust. --Denham.
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The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag
thee down. --Tennyson.
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A needless Alexandrine ends the song
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length
along. --Pope.
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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.
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Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.
--Tennyson.
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3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in
pain or with difficulty.
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Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden.
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To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom
when the anchor will not hold the ship.
Syn: See Draw.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance
with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
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The day drags through, though storms keep out the
sun. --Byron.
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Long, open panegyric drags at best. -- Gay.
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3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
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A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the
vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can
propel her. --Russell.
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4. To fish with a dragnet.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Drag \Drag\, n. [See Drag, v. t., and cf. Dray a cart, and
1st Dredge.]
1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
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2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under
water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
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3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind
of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
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4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
[Collog.] --Thackeray.
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5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
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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.
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My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no
drag. --J. D.
Forbes.
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7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if
clogged. "Had a drag in his walk." -- Hazlitt.
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8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper
part being the cope.
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9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing
of soft stone.
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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.
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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.
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6. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
drag and drop
drag
dragging
A common method for manipulating files (and sometimes text)
under a graphical user interface or WIMP environment. The
user moves the pointer over an icon representing a file and
presses a mouse button. He holds the button down while moving
the pointer (dragging the file) to another place, usually a
directory viewer or an icon for some application program,
and then releases the button (dropping the file). The meaning
of this action can often be modified by holding certain keys
on the keyboard at the same time.
Some systems also use this technique for objects other than
files, e.g. portions of text in a word processor.
The biggest problem with drag and drop is does it mean "copy"
or "move"? The answer to this question is not intuitively
evident, and there is no consensus for which is the right
answer. The same vendor even makes it move in some cases and
copy in others. Not being sure whether an operation is copy
or move will cause you to check very often, perhaps every time
if you need to be certain. Mistakes can be costly. People
make mistakes all the time with drag and drop. Human
computer interaction studies show a higher failure rate for
such operations, but also a higher "forgiveness rate" (users
think "silly me") than failures with commands (users think
"stupid machine"). Overall, drag and drop took some 40 times
longer to do than single-key commands.
[Erik Naggum ]
(2007-06-15)
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Thesaurus Results for Drag:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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