Word Finder - drag

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Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.

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When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.

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(foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.

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A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.

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A puff on a cigarette or joint.

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Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

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Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag.

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A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.

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Street, as in 'main drag'.

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The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.

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to run a drag

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A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.

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A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.

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A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.

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a stone drag

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The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.

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A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

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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.

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Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.

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A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

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Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

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Witch house music.

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The last position in a line of hikers.

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(aerodynamics) The act of suppressing wind flow to slow an aircraft in flight, as by use of flaps when landing.

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A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.

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A device for guiding wood to the saw.

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A mailcoach.

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To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.

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Let's drag this load of wood over to the shed.

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To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

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Time seems to drag when you’re waiting for a bus.

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To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.

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To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

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To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

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To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.

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Drag the file into the window to open it.

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(chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.

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The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump.

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To hit or kick off target.

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To fish with a dragnet.

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To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.

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To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.

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• harrow

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To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.

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To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).

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You just drag him 'cause he's got more money than you.

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• criticize

I won't drag you into it.

You can come with me quietly, or I can drag you out of here.

She giggled as he used it to drag her back into his arms.

He watched an overweight man open the trunk of his car and drag out a child-size bundle.

If I had a horse like you I wouldn't drag him out in this awful desert.

He will drag about as a cripple, a burden to everybody, for another ten years.

I don't know how I'd drag you out!

She was the country bumpkin that he had to drag everywhere or be accused of being insensitive.

She wrenched away, only for the robed man to snatch her ankle and drag her down.

In the hospitals, death was so certain that soldiers suffering from fever, or the swelling that came from bad food, preferred to remain on duty, and hardly able to drag their legs went to the front rather than to the hospitals.

Traci told him not to think about asking her to marry him just because she's pregnant, and he said she had no choice and he'd drag the priest to her.

You couldn't drag me in that place.

The old or Persian school flourished from the foundation of the empire down to about 1830, and still continues to drag on a feeble existence, though it is now out of fashion and cultivated by none of the leading men of letters.

Romas had no qualms about invading her bedroom to drag her out of bed if Evelyn directed him to.

I have a baby and I'm not about to drag Claire all over the United States!

How can I drag out a pile of maybes and cause her to spend the rest of her days wondering if hubby will jump out from behind some bush?

After a thick silence, she whispered, Explains why the Others want to drag me over there.

Things may drag on perhaps till July, but then a catastrophe must come."

Zumalacarregui had therefore to drag behind him the whole weight of the distrust and intrigues of the court.

At some point, he'd have to snatch Yully and Charles and drag them down to the immortal world and hope they had a chance to Travel before being blasted to pieces.

She clambered forward to drag Darian out of the way of one, only to feel the crushing weight of another as it slammed across her legs.

Still, I don't care to drag any passengers.

Then I will drag it out of the bushes and call mamma to come and see it.

Each time the phone rang, Cynthia flinched, fearing some state minion was calling to drag Martha back to his lair in the dungeons of officialdom.

He didn't understand why the self-proclaimed guardian of humans would drag such a helpless creature into this web of evil.

She frowned at the thought of Rhyn being gone all the time but was glad Jade would be with them and not around to try to drag her back to Sasha.

If Tamer gives you any resistance, let me know, and I.ll drag him here myself, he instructed.

She feared leaving the injured woman, in case Jade lurked on the other side of the hill or there were animals that might drag her away.

Seriously, why did you feel the need to drag me across the galaxy?

She glanced at the door every few minutes, as if her abandoned husband might rush in and drag her back to his lair.

He's not going to get her committed without a few miles of red tape but just the threat of a lockup could drag her back to old Virginia.

Political agitators, in order to sap the power of the Opportunist party, did not hesitate to drag in the mud one of the greatest citizens of France.

While the engine in gear is coiling in its rope and drawing the plough towards itself, the rope of the other engine is paid out with merely so much drag on it as to keep it from kinking or getting ravelled on the drum.

This feat pleased me highly, as his body was very heavy, and it took all my strength to drag him half a mile.

They did not drag her away at once, but sang with her for a long time and then at last dragged her off, and behind the scenes something metallic was struck three times and everyone knelt down and sang a prayer.

If he wanted to see Mary, why did he have to drag her along?

All that wasn't bad enough, but she had to drag up that old rumor – and I thought you believed it.

Damian turned in time to see the vamp Charlie struggling to drag a skinned deer carcass across the threshold.

Get your ass down here and drag this old coot home!

He'd be at the service next week and not to see if a missing man would turn up in veiled drag, but simply because Cynthia Byrne told him she'd be pleased with his presence.

Kind of like a mower, only they drag it behind a tractor.

The experiment was so far successful that, with incredible difficulty, the two vessels did actually reach Meskene, but the result of the expedition was to show that practically the river could not be used as a high-road of commerce, the continuous rapids and falls during the low season, caused mainly by the artificial obstructions of the irrigating dams, being insurmountable by ordinary steam power, and the aid of hundreds of hands being thus required to drag the vessels up the stream at those points by main force.

Either you come back here on your own or I drag your sorry ass back on the bumper of my car.

Drag and drop the folder anywhere on the machine.

All that wasn't bad enough, but she had to drag up that old rumor – and I thought you believed it.

Thus, at the so-called drag coursing meeting which Mr Hill attended, the actual course in fact was dead straight.

The small crowd was still enthusiastic enough to drag several encores out of the guys.

Rather than run the gauntlet, I think I might drag the wife down the flicks or head out for a curry.

I drag the sad geek out from behind the partition.

With neat white gouache representing perhaps waves or foam, drag the paint in a broken brush stroke method over the dark surface.