Drag
A confection; a comfit; a drug.
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.
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.
To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
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.
To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
To fish with a dragnet.
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
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).
Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
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 Quotations
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
Dolly Parton
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
Alan Watts
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Quentin Crisp
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
Jack Kerouac
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard
I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Henry Rollins
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Jim Carrey
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
Alicia Keys
I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.
Brian Molko
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
Benjamin F. Wade
Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.
James Carville
When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
Ritchie Blackmore
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
Barry Gibb
If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.
Bernhard Langer
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
Barbara Kruger
They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.
Harvey Korman
To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
Ellen Burstyn
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
Rick Perry
I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.
Jimmy Carl Black
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
Paul Theroux
I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
Patti Smith
The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Brian Eno
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
Van Morrison
There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource.
Johnny Vegas
The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.
Laurie Anderson
You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.
Norman Wisdom
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Drag Translations
drag in Afrikaans is trek, sleep
drag in Dutch is trekken
drag in German is schleppen, nachschleppen, ziehen, ziehen
drag in Italian is trascinare
drag in Norwegian is kjedelig, trekke, dra
drag in Portuguese is puxar, arrasto
drag in Spanish is remolcar, arrastrar, tirar
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