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Quick take

the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of drag gathered in one view.

noun

the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

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

something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for drag.

noun

the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

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

something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"

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

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

the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"

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

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"

verb

move slowly and as if with great effort

verb

to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"

verb

suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"

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

walk without lifting the feet

verb

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

verb

persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"

verb

proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"

Example sentences

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Problem is, whenever ISPs tried to setup a DSL link, the telco would drag their feet.

30m later that kid came back to drag us over to see this couple of hundred word story that he'd tapped out.

He's the very, very rich guy who wants to drag down the entire tech industry to get even richer.

When you hire based on employee networks, your whole hiring thesis is that employees "drag other employees along".

Because keeping this stuff secret is a drag, you can't talk about most of what you do everyday at work with anybody outside of your work.

Technical means can drag the resistance longer, which is helpful, but the political system needs to be put in checks and balances against becoming a police state.

To attribute my reaction as some flaw in human psychology that simply wants to drag others down however is rather dismissive of the arguments I make and those made by many far more erudite than I.

Why didn't they release these documents a long time ago when everyone was racing to judgement that Google, Yahoo, et al were secretly in cahoots with the NSA helping to build drag-net surveillance extranet stuff for them?