| 单词 | drag |
| 释义 | drag /drag/, v. , dragged, dragging, n. , adj. v.t. 1. to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house. 2. to search with a drag, grapnel, or the like: They dragged the lake for the body of the missing man. 3. to level and smooth (land) with a drag or harrow. 4. to introduce; inject; insert: He drags his honorary degree into every discussion. 5. to protract (something) or pass (time) tediously or painfully (often fol. by out or on): They dragged the discussion out for three hours. 6. to pull (a graphical image) from one place to another on a computer display screen, esp. by using a mouse. v.i. 7. to be drawn or hauled along. 8. to trail on the ground. 9. to move heavily or with effort. 10. to proceed or pass with tedious slowness: The parade dragged by endlessly. 11. to feel listless or apathetic; move listlessly or apathetically (often fol. by around): This heat wave has everyone dragging around. 12. to lag behind. 13. to use a drag or grapnel; dredge. 14. to take part in a drag race. 15. to take a puff: to drag on a cigarette. 16. drag one's feet or heels, to act with reluctance; delay: The committee is dragging its feet coming to a decision. n. 17. Naut. a. a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel. b. resistance to the movement of a hull through the water. c. any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed. d. any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor. e. any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects. 18. Agric. a heavy wooden or steel frame drawn over the ground to smooth it. 19. Slang. someone or something tedious; a bore: It's a drag having to read this old novel. 20. a stout sledge or sled. 21. Aeron. the aerodynamic force exerted on an airfoil, airplane, or other aerodynamic body that tends to reduce its forward motion. 22. a four-horse sporting and passenger coach with seats inside and on top. 23. a metal shoe to receive a wheel of heavy wagons and serve as a brake on steep grades. 24. something that retards progress. 25. an act of dragging. 26. slow, laborious movement or procedure; retardation. 27. a puff or inhalation on a cigarette, pipe, etc. 28. Hunting. a. the scent left by a fox or other animal. b. something, as aniseed, dragged over the ground to leave an artificial scent. c. Also called drag hunt. a hunt, esp. a fox hunt, in which the hounds follow an artificial scent. 29. Angling. a. a brake on a fishing reel. b. the sideways pull on a fishline, as caused by a crosscurrent. 30. clothing characteristically associated with one sex when worn by a person of the opposite sex: a Mardi Gras ball at which many of the dancers were in drag. 31. clothing characteristic of a particular occupation or milieu: Two guests showed up in gangster drag. 32. Also called comb. Masonry. a steel plate with a serrated edge for dressing a stone surface. 33. Metall. the lower part of a flask. Cf. cope2 (def. 5). 34. Slang. influence: He claims he has drag with his senator. 35. Slang. a girl or woman that one is escorting; date. 36. Informal. a street or thoroughfare, esp. a main street of a town or city. 37. See drag race. 38. Eastern New Eng. a sledge, as for carrying stones from a field. adj. 39. marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite. [1350-1400; 1920-25 for def. 18; ME; both n. and v. prob. < MLG dragge grapnel, draggen to dredge, deriv. of drag- DRAW; defs. 29-30, 38, obscurely related to other senses and perh. a distinct word of independent orig.] Syn. 1. See draw. 11. linger, loiter. |
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