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drag
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)
- (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- (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.
- December 24, 1865, James David Forbes, letter to Dr. Symonds
- (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.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
- (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'. [from mid-19th c.]
- (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- (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.
- 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.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- c. 1800, William Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance with Poets
- Had a drag in his walk.
- c. 1800, William Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance with Poets
- Witch house music. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- (historical) A mailcoach.
- (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.
- 1869, A Merchant. Editor: Frank Henderson, Six Years in the Prisons of England
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged or (dialectal) drug)
- (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- 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.
- a. 1732', John Gay, epistle to a Lady
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- have dragged a lingering life
- 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.
- 1883, William Clark Russell, Sailor’s Language:A collection of Sea-terms and Their Definitions
- (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.
- (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- (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.
- 2012, David Ornstein, BBC Sport, "Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham" [2], November 17
- To fish with a dragnet.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- Synonym: harrow
- (figuratively) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- while I dragged my brains for such a song
- (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)
- (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment. [from late 19th c.]
- (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing. [from early 20th c.]
- (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)
- 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)
- a pull, drag (the act of pulling, dragging)
- Han tok eit drag av sigaretten.
- He took a drag from his cigarette.
- Han tok eit drag av sigaretten.
- hang (capability)
- Eg tek til å få draget på dette.
- I am starting to get the hang of this.
- Eg tek til å få draget på dette.
- 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
- (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)
- 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 ?????)
- 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)
- dear (loved; lovable)
- 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
- feature, trait, characteristic
- lure, trolling spoon
- (chess) move, stroke
Declension
See also
- dra
Verb
drag
- imperative of draga.
Anagrams
- grad
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flow
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fl?
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fl??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /flo?/
- Homophones: floe, Flo
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English flowen, from Old English fl?wan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *fl?an, from Proto-Germanic *fl?an? (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?w-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Compare float.
Noun
flow (countable and uncountable, plural flows)
- A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
- The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
- (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
- The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations.
- The rising movement of the tide.
- Smoothness or continuity.
- The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
- A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
- (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
- The emission of blood during menstruation.
- (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
- (computing) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action. (Usually preceded by an attributive such as login or search.)
Synonyms
- (continuity): See also Thesaurus:continuity
Antonyms
- (movement of the tide): ebb
- (continuity): See also Thesaurus:discontinuity
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- ebb and flow
- flowchart
- flowmeter
- freeflow
- single-flow
Translations
Further reading
- flow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Flow (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
flow (third-person singular simple present flows, present participle flowing, simple past and past participle flowed)
- (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.
- , Dedication
- Virgil […] is […] sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
- (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
- In that day […] the hills shall flow with milk.
- 1845, John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Robert Burns
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
- (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
- a flowing mantle; flowing locks
- March 11, 1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
- (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
- (transitive) To cover with varnish.
- (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
Derived terms
- flowable, reflowable
- free-flowing
- overflow
- underflow
Translations
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”).
Noun
flow (plural flows)
- (Scotland) A morass or marsh.
References
- “flow, n.2.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
- “flow, v., n.1” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Anagrams
- Wolf, fowl, wolf
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?flow/, [?flow]
Noun
flow m (plural flows)
- flow
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