different between drag vs scuttle

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

Alternative forms

• skuttle

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk?t?l/, [?sk?t??], [?sk?t??]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk?t?l/, [?sk????], [?sk????]
• Rhymes: -?t?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English scuttel, scutel, from Old English scutel (“dish, platter”), from Latin scutella, diminutive form of Latin scutra (“flat tray, dish”), perhaps related to Latin scutum (“shield”); compare Dutch schotel and German Schüssel.

Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

1. A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:

     All through dinner—which was long, in consequence of such accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal skuttle and the handle of the corkscrew coming off and striking the young woman in the chin—Mrs. Jellyby preserved the evenness of her disposition.

2. A broad, shallow basket.
3. (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.

Usage notes

The sense of "dish, platter" survives in compounds like scuttle-dish (a large dish).

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French escoutille (compare French écoutille), from Old Norse skaut (“corner of a cloth, of a sail”), or alternatively from Spanish escotilla, ultimately from Gothic ???????????????????????? (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), from Proto-Germanic *skautaz (“corner; wedge; lap”). Compare German Schoß, Old English s??at. More at sheet.

Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

1. A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.
2. (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.

Synonyms

• (hatch that provides access to the roof): roof hatch

Translations

Verb

scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled)

1. (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
2. (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner.
   • 2002, Richard Côté, Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy, Corinthian Books (2002), ?ISBN, page 325:

     In this version, the Patriot was boarded by pirates (or the crew and passengers were overpowered by mutineers), who murdered everyone and then looted and scuttled the ship.

   • 2003, Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955, Northwestern University Press (2003), ?ISBN, page 238:

     To lay the foundation for an all-weather dock at Shelter Bay, he filled an old barge with worn-out grindstones from the Thorold paper mill, then scuttled the vessel.

   • 2007, Michael Mueller, Canaris: The Life and Death of Hitler's Spymaster, Naval Institute Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 17:

     He decided that before scuttling the ship to prevent her falling into enemy hands he had to get the dead and wounded ashore.

   • 2009, Nancy Toppino, Insiders' Guide to the Florida Keys and Key West, Insiders' Guide (2009), ?ISBN, page 227:

     In recent years, steel-hull vessels up to 350 feet long have been scuttled in stable sandy-bottom areas, amassing new communities of fish and invertebrates and easing the stress and strain on the coral reef by creating new fishing and diving sites.

3. (transitive, by extension, in figurative use) Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or denigrate or destroy one's position or property; compare scupper.

   The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.

Translations

Etymology 3

See scuddle.

Verb

scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled)

1. (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 3

     there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 8

     Morel scuttled out of the house before his wife came down.

Usage notes

The word "scuttle" carries a crab-like connotation, and is mainly used to describe panic-like movements of the legs, akin to crabs' leg movements.

Translations

Noun

scuttle (plural scuttles)

1. A quick pace; a short run.

Further reading

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• An historical dictionary
• The English Dialect Dictionary
• Scuttle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

Anagrams

• cutlets, cuttles