different between drag vs dart

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??t/
• (General American) enPR: därt, IPA^(key): /d??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *dar?þu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *d??- (“to sharpen”); compare Old High German tart (“javelin, dart”), Old English daroþ, dearod (“javelin, spear, dart”), Swedish dart (“dart, dagger”), Icelandic darraður, darr, dör (“dart, spear”).

Noun

dart (plural darts)

1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand, for example a short lance or javelin
   • 1769, Oxford Standard Text, King James Bible, 2 Samuel, xviii, 14,

     Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

2. Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
3. (sometimes figuratively) Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
   • 1830, Hannah More, Sensibility, The Works of Hannah More, Volume 1, page 38,

     The artful inquiry, whose venom?d dart / Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart.

4. A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
5. (military) A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
   • 1988, Michigan Aviation (volumes 21-25, page 62)

     Fighter aircraft also use restricted areas for target shooting at darts towed 1500 feet behind another aircraft.

6. (Australia, obsolete) A plan or scheme.
   • 1947, Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, 1970, page 79,

     Trucking?s my dart too.

7. A sudden or fast movement.
8. (sewing) A fold that is stitched on a garment.
9. A fish, the dace.
10. (Australia, Canada, colloquial) A cigarette.
    • 2017, April 18, Craig Little, The Guardian, Hawthorn are not the only ones finding that things can get worse

      The Tigers will also face Jesse Hogan, still smarting from missing a couple of games but not life inside the AFL bubble, where you can’t even light up a dart at a music festival without someone filming it and sending it to the six o’clock news.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English darten, from the noun (see above).

Verb

dart (third-person singular simple present darts, present participle darting, simple past and past participle darted)

1. (transitive) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
2. (transitive) To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot

   The sun darts forth his beams.
3. (transitive) To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart

4. (intransitive) To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly

   The flying man darted eastward.

5. (intransitive) To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along

Derived terms

• dartle
• darter

Translations

References

• dart in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• 'tard, -tard, ADRT, Art.D., DTRA, drat, tard, trad

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English dart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?rt/
• Hyphenation: dart
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

dart m (plural darts, diminutive dartje n)

1. dart

   Synonym: dartpijl

Derived terms

• darten
• dartpijl

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French dart, dard, from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *dar?þu, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.

Alternative forms

• darte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dart/

Noun

dart (plural dartes)

1. A hand-thrown spear or missile; a javelin.
2. (figuratively) Assailing; a hostile act.

Descendants

• English: dart
  • ? Dutch: dart
• Scots: dart, dairt; dard

References

• “dart, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-29.

Etymology 2

Formed from the noun.

Verb

dart

1. Alternative form of darten

Middle French

Alternative forms

• dard, dar

Etymology

Old French, see below

Noun

dart m (plural dars)

1. weapon similar to a javelin

Descendants

• French: dard
  • ? Italian: dardo

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dart.

Noun

dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural darter, definite plural dartene)

1. a throwing dart

References

• “dart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dart.

Noun

dart m (definite singular darten, indefinite plural dartar, definite plural dartane)

1. a throwing dart

References

• “dart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

• dard, dar

Etymology

From Medieval Latin dardus (“spear”).

Noun

dart m (oblique plural darz or dartz, nominative singular darz or dartz, nominative plural dart)

1. spear, javelin

Descendants

• Middle French: dart, dard, dar
  • French: dard
    • ? Italian: dardo
• Walloon: darde
• ? Middle English: dart, darte
  • English: dart
    • ? Dutch: dart
  • Scots: dart, dairt; dard

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *ðaðut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?atus, from Proto-Austronesian *?atus.

Numeral

dart

1. hundred

Pennsylvania German

Alternative forms

• dort
• datt

Etymology

Compare German dort, da.

Adverb

dart

1. there

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse darr, from Proto-Germanic *dar?þuz.

Noun

dart c

1. darts (the game where the competitors throw small arrows against a circular target)
2. (rare) dart (one of the small arrows in the game of darts)

Synonyms

• pilkastning (1)
• pil (2)