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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drag \Drag\, n. [See {Drag}, v. t., and cf. {Dray} a cart, and
   1st {Dredge}.]
   1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

   2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under
      water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

   3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind
      of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

   4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
      [Collog.] --Thackeray.

   5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

   6.
      (a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's
          progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a
          canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See {Drag
          sail} (below).
      (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
          carriage wheel.
      (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to
          progress or enjoyment.

                My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no
                drag.                             --J. D.
                                                  Forbes.

   7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if
      clogged. ``Had a drag in his walk.'' -- Hazlitt.

   8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper
      part being the cope.

   9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing
      of soft stone.

   10. (Marine Engin.) 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. See Citation
       under {Drag}, v. i., 3.

   {Drag sail} (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout
      frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in
      order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting;
      -- called also {drift sail}, {drag sheet}, {drag anchor},
      {sea anchor}, {floating anchor}, etc.

   {Drag twist} (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for
      cleaning drilled holes.

Drag \Drag\, v. i.
   1. To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to
      trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the
      bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.

   2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance
      with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

            The day drags through, though storms keep out the
            sun.                                  --Byron.

            Long, open panegyric drags at best.   -- Gay.

   3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

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

   4. To fish with a dragnet.

Drag \Drag\, n. [See 3d {Dredge}.]
   A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Drag \Drag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Dragging}.] [OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with
   a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same
   word as E. draw. ? See {Draw}.]
   1. To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground
      by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing
      heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with
      labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag
      stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.

            Dragged by the cords which through his feet were
            thrust.                               --Denham.

            The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag
            thee down.                            --Tennyson.

            A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a
            wounded snake, drags its slow length along. --Pope.

   2. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to
      harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or
      other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.

            Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.
                                                  --Tennyson.

   3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in
      pain or with difficulty.

            Have dragged a lingering life.        -- Dryden.

   {To drag an anchor} (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom
      when the anchor will not hold the ship.

   Syn: See {Draw}.

資料來源 : WordNet®

drag
     n 1: the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid [syn:
           {retarding force}]
     2: something that slows or delays progress; "taxation is a drag
        on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of
        new land"
     3: something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"
     4: clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex
        (especially women's clothing when worn by a man); "he went
        to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like
        missionaries in drag"
     5: a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on
        his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled
        the smoke slowly" [syn: {puff}, {pull}]
     6: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the
        hill exhausted him"
     [also: {dragging}, {dragged}]

drag
     v 1: pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase
          behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
     2: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: {haul},
         {hale}, {cart}]
     3: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of
        action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me
        into this business" [syn: {embroil}, {tangle}, {sweep}, {sweep
        up}, {drag in}]
     4: move slowly and as if with great effort
     5: to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we
        still are dragging" [syn: {trail}, {get behind}, {hang
        back}, {drop behind}]
     6: suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a
        cigarette" [syn: {puff}, {draw}]
     7: use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select
        commands from a menu; "drag this icon to the lower right
        hand corner of the screen"
     8: walk without lifting the feet [syn: {scuff}]
     9: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something
        valuable or lost [syn: {dredge}]
     10: persuade to come away from something attractive or
         interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"
     11: proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged
         on for two hours" [syn: {drag on}, {drag out}]
     [also: {dragging}, {dragged}]