different between drag vs trot

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

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trott?, *trot? (“to go”), from Frankish *trott?n (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trud?n?, *trudan?, *tradjan? (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh?- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trott?n (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of tread.

Noun

trot (plural trots)

1. (archaic, derogatory) An ugly old woman, a hag. [From 1362.]
2. (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
   • 2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, page 14,

     Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.

   • 2008, Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse, Elsevier, page 154,

     The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot. […] The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot.

   • 2009, Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show, page 65,

     To assume the correct position for the posting trot, first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting trot at six miles an hour. Do not post.

3. A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
4. A brisk journey or progression.

   We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.

   In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.

5. A toddler. [From 1854.]
   • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123,

     […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.

6. (obsolete) A young animal. [From 1895.]
7. (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
8. (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
9. (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.

   He?s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.

   • 1994, Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing, page 34,

     It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.

   • 2004, John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture, 2nd Edition, page 21,

     Should he or she be having a bad trot, the exchange rate will be higher than normal.

10. (dated, slang, among students) Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
11. (informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.

    He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.

Synonyms

• (gait of an animal between walk and canter):
• (ugly old woman): See Thesaurus:old woman
• (gait of a person faster than a walk): jog

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted)

1. (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

   I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.

   The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv:

     I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart.

   • c. 1920s-1930s, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Runaway Jane:

     They sent little Jane to the garden to play,

     But she opened the gate, and then trotted away

     Under the hawthorns and down the green lane,

     Bad little, mad little, runaway Jane!

2. (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
3. (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Synonyms

• (to walk rapidly): jog, pace
  • See also Thesaurus:walk, Thesaurus:run

Derived terms

• hot to trot
• strong enough to trot a mouse on

Translations

Etymology 2

Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.

Noun

trot (uncountable)

1. A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

Synonyms

• ppongjjak

Etymology 3

Noun

trot (plural trots)

1. (derogatory, properly Trot) Clipping of Trotskyist.

References

Anagrams

• -tort, ROTT, Rott, TRTO, tort

French

Etymology

From Old French trot, troter, from Medieval Latin trottare, of Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?o/

Noun

trot m (plural trots)

1. trot

Further reading

• “trot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tort

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trott?, *trot? (“to go”), from Frankish *trott?n (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trud?n?, *trudan?, *tradjan? (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh?- (“to run, escape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tr?t], [trot]

Verb

trot (third-person singular present trots, present participle trottin, past trottit, past participle trottit)

1. to move at a quick steady pace
2. (of water) to flow rapidly and noisily, purl, ripple

Derived terms

• (Ulster) trottle-caur (“a low vehicle for moving hay”)

Noun

trot (plural trots)

1. a short, quick pace
2. the fall, angle, or run on a drain

Derived terms

• jeoparty trot (“a quick motion between running and walking”)
• job-trot (“a slow, monotonous or easy going pace, the settled routine or way of doing things”)
• short in the trot (“short-tempered”)

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tr?t?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tró?t/

Noun

tr??t m anim

1. drone (male bee)

Inflection

Further reading

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

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English throat.

Noun

trot

1. throat