Found 4 items, similar to drag.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: drag
menyeret
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: drag
eret, gusur, menggusur, menyeret
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: drag
drag
n 1: the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid [syn:
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,
pull]
6: the act of dragging (pulling with force);
“the drag up the
hill exhausted him”
[also:
dragging,
dragged]
drag
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]
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 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:
trail,
get behind,
hang back
,
drop behind]
6: suck in or take (air);
“draw a deep breath”;
“draw on a
cigarette” [syn:
puff,
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]
9: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something
valuable or lost [syn:
dredge]
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 on,
drag out]
[also:
dragging,
dragged]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Drag
Drag
\Drag\, n. [See 3d
Dredge.]
A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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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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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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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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