单词 | drag |
释义 | Word Frequency drag(dræɡ) verbWord forms: drags, dragging or dragged 1. to pull or be pulled with force, esp along the ground or other surface 2. (tr; often foll by away or from) to persuade to come away (from something attractive or interesting) he couldn't drag himself away from the shop 3. to trail or cause to trail on the ground 4. (transitive) to move (oneself, one's feet, etc) with effort or difficulty she drags herself out of bed at dawn 5. to linger behind 6. (often foll by on or out) to prolong or be prolonged tediously or unnecessarily his talk dragged on for hours 7. (transitive; foll by out) to pass (time) in discomfort, poverty, unhappiness, etc she dragged out her few remaining years 8. (when intr, usually foll by for) to search (the bed of a river, canal, etc) with a dragnet or hook they dragged the river for the body 9. (tr foll by out or from) to crush (clods) or level (a soil surface) by use of a drag 10. (of hounds) to follow (a fox or its trail) to the place where it has been lying 11. (intransitive) slang to draw (on a cigarette, pipe, etc) 12. computing to move (data) from one place to another on the screen by manipulating a mouse with its button held down 13. drag anchor 14. drag one's feet 15. drag someone's name in the mud noun 16. the act of dragging or the state of being dragged 17. an implement, such as a dragnet, dredge, etc, used for dragging 18. Also called: drag harrow a type of harrow consisting of heavy beams, often with spikes inserted, used to crush clods, level soil, or prepare seedbeds 19. a sporting coach with seats inside and out, usually drawn by four horses 20. a braking or retarding device, such as a metal piece fitted to the underside of the wheel of a horse-drawn vehicle 21. a person or thing that slows up progress 22. slow progress or movement 23. aeronautics the resistance to the motion of a body passing through a fluid, esp through air: applied to an aircraft in flight, it is the component of the resultant aerodynamic force measured parallel to the direction of air flow 24. the trail of scent left by a fox or other animal hunted with hounds 25. an artificial trail of a strong-smelling substance, sometimes including aniseed, drawn over the ground for hounds to follow 26. drag hunt 27. angling unnatural movement imparted to a fly, esp a dry fly, by tension on the angler's line 28. informal a person or thing that is very tedious; bore exams are a drag 29. slang a car 30. short for drag race 31. slang a. the clothes traditionally associated with the opposite sex (esp in the phrase in drag) b. (as modifier) a drag club drag show c. clothes collectively 32. informal a draw on a cigarette, pipe, etc 33. US slang influence or persuasive power 34. mainly US slang a street or road Word origin Old English dragan to draw; related to Swedish dragga |
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