different between drag vs carry

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *dragan? (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reg?- (“to draw, drag”). Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled or dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.

Noun

drag (countable and uncountable, plural drags)

1. (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.

2. (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.

3. (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
4. (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
5. (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.

6. (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
   • December 24, 1865, James David Forbes, letter to Dr. Symonds

     My lectures […] were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.

7. (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats. [from mid-18th c.]
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     Alcee Arobin and Mrs. Highcamp called for her one bright afternoon in Arobin's drag.

8. (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'. [from mid-19th c.]
9. (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.

10. (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
11. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
12. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.

13. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
14. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
15. (nautical) 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.
16. 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.
17. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
18. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
    • c. 1800, William Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance with Poets

      Had a drag in his walk.

19. Witch house music. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
20. The last position in a line of hikers.
21. (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
22. A device for guiding wood to the saw.
23. (historical) A mailcoach.
24. (slang) A prison sentence of three months
    • 1869, A Merchant. Editor: Frank Henderson, Six Years in the Prisons of England

      The copper knew I did that job, and had me up on suspicion some time after, and gave me a drag (three months) over it. The next bit I did was a 'sixer' (six months), and I escaped from prison in about three weeks after I got it.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged or (dialectal) drug)

1. (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.

2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
   • a. 1732', John Gay, epistle to a Lady

     Long, open panegyric drags at best.
3. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
4. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

   • have dragged a lingering life

5. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
   • 1883, William Clark Russell, Sailor’s Language:A collection of Sea-terms and Their Definitions

     A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.

6. (computing) To operate a mouse or similar device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.

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

8. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
   • 2012, David Ornstein, BBC Sport, "Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham" [2], November 17

     Arsenal were struggling for any sort of rhythm and Aaron Lennon dragged an effort inches wide as Tottenham pressed for a second.

9. To fish with a dragnet.
11. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
12. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.

    Synonym: harrow

13. (figuratively) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.

    • while I dragged my brains for such a song

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

    Synonyms: criticize; see also Thesaurus:criticize

Derived terms

• drag and drop
• drag one's feet
• draggle
• dragline
• updrag
• what the cat dragged in

Related terms

• dragnet

Translations

See also

• (call attention to the flaws of): read

Etymology 2

Possibly from English drag (“to pull along a surface”) because of the sensation of long skirts trailing on the floor, or from Yiddish ??????? (trogn, “to wear”)

Noun

drag (usually uncountable, plural drags)

1. (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment. [from late 19th c.]
   1. (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
2. (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing. [from early 20th c.]
3. (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.

Derived terms

• (women's clothing worn by men): drag daughter, drag king, drag queen, drag show
• (any type of clothing): lally-drags
• drab

Translations

Verb

drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged)

1. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

References

• Flight, 1913, p. 126 attributing to Archibald Low
• Michael Quinion (2004) , “Drag”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• Gard, Grad, darg, gard, grad

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb dra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dr???/

Noun

drag n (definite singular draget, indefinite plural drag, definite plural draga)

1. a pull, drag (the act of pulling, dragging)

   Han tok eit drag av sigaretten.

   He took a drag from his cigarette.

2. hang (capability)

   Eg tek til å få draget på dette.

   I am starting to get the hang of this.

3. feature (e.g. facial features)

Derived terms

• vinddrag

References

• “drag” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English drug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drak/

Noun

drag m inan

1. (slang) drug, recreational drug

   Synonym: narkotyk

Declension

Further reading

• drag in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• drag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from Bulgarian ???? (drag), from Proto-Slavic *dorg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dra?]

Adjective

drag m or n (feminine singular drag?, masculine plural dragi, feminine and neuter plural drage)

1. dear

Usage notes

This word can be used as a term of address, in the same way as "dear", "honey", and "sweetie" are used in English.

Declension

Derived terms

• dragoste
• dr?g?la?
• dr?gu?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dorg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drâ??/

Adjective

dr?g (definite dr?g?, comparative dr?ž?, Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. dear

Declension

Related terms

• dražestan

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dorg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drá?k/

Adjective

dr?g (comparative dr?žji, superlative n?jdr?žji)

1. dear (loved; lovable)
2. expensive

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “drag”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

drag n

1. feature, trait, characteristic
2. lure, trolling spoon
3. (chess) move, stroke

Declension

See also

• dra

Verb

drag

1. imperative of draga.

Anagrams

• grad

English

Etymology

From Middle English carrien, from Anglo-Norman carier (modern French charrier); from a derivative of Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”), ultimately of Gaulish origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ.?i/ or (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /?k?.?i/
• Rhymes: -æri
• Homophones: Carrie, Cary

Verb

carry (third-person singular simple present carries, present participle carrying, simple past and past participle carried)

1. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
2. To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.

3. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.

4. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey using force

   Synonyms: impel, conduct

5. to lead or guide.
   • Passion and revenge will carry them too far.

6. (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.

7. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.

8. (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly

9. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.

10. (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).

11. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
12. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
13. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
14. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
15. (transitive) To have on one's person.
16. To be pregnant (with).

17. To have propulsive power; to propel.

18. To hold the head; said of a horse.

19. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

20. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
    • 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation

      the carrying of our main point

21. to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
22. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
23. To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
    • 2014, Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris, If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of her Children

      Things of little value carry great importance.

    • It carries too great an imputation of ignorance.

24. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
    • 1702-1704, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion

      He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.

25. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.

26. (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
27. (gaming) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.

    He absolutely carried the game, to the point of killing the entire enemy team by himself.

28. (Southern US) to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)

    Will you carry me to town?

Synonyms

• (lift and bring to somewhere else): bear, move, transport
• (stock, supply): have, keep, stock, supply
• (adopt): adopt, take on, take over
• (have, maintain): have, maintain
• (be transmitted, travel): be transmitted, travel

Antonyms

• (in arithmetic): borrow (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of subtraction)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

carry (plural carries)

1. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.

   Adjust your carry from time to time so that you don't tire too quickly.

2. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
   • 1862, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 10, page 533)

     Undrowned, unducked, as safe from the perils of the broad lake as we had come out of the defiles of the rapids, we landed at the carry below the dam at the lake's outlet.

3. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
4. (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.

5. (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
6. (finance) Carried interest.
7. (Britain, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Crary