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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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dash
English
Etymology
From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dw?s?an (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also adwesch, dush.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
dash (plural dashes)
- (typography) Any of the following symbols: ? (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ? (horizontal bar).
- (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
- (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
- A short run, flight.
- A rushing or violent onset.
- Violent strike; a whack.
- A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
- Add a dash of vinegar.
- (figuratively, by extension) A slight admixture.
- There is a dash of craziness in his personality.
- Ostentatious vigor.
- Aren't we full of dash this morning?
- A dashboard.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 31:
- The dash clock said 2:38 when […] I turned off a dirt road […] .
- 1955, Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 31:
- (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
- 1992, George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)
- The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
- 2006, Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950 (page 99)
- Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law […]
- 2008, Lizzie Williams, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide (page 84)
- The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.
- 1992, George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)
- (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
- 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter VI, serialized in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118
- Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.
- Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
- 1884, Lord Robert Gower, My Reminiscences, reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", The Christian Union, (29) 22, (May 29, 1884) p. 524
- Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?
- 1853, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter VI, serialized in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853) p. 118
Hypernyms
- punctuation mark
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:dash
Derived terms
- dashing
- (typography): em dash, en dash
- (dashboard): dashcam, dash cam
Translations
See also
Punctuation
Verb
dash (third-person singular simple present dashes, present participle dashing, simple past and past participle dashed)
- (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
- (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
- I have to dash now. See you soon.
- (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
- He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- "`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 4
- Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
- (transitive) To throw violently.
- The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
- If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
- (transitive, intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To sprinkle; to splatter.
- On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall.
- The very source and fount of day / Is dash'd with wandering isles of night.
- (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
- to dash wine with water
- (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
- Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
- (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
- Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
- (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.
- He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework
- (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
- 2003, Robert Andrews, A Murder of Promise (page 198)
- Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
Derived terms
- dash off
- gas and dash
Translations
Interjection
dash
- (euphemistic) Damn!
Translations
See also
- hyphen
- minus sign
Anagrams
- ADHs, SAHD, Sadh, dahs, shad
Albanian
Etymology
Disputed. Potentially from Proto-Albanian *dauša, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eusóm (compare English deer, Lithuanian da?sos (“upper air; heaven”)). Alternatively from Proto-Albanian *dalša, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?-l- (compare Ossetian ?????? (dalis?, “young lamb”)).
Noun
dash m (indefinite plural desh, definite singular dashi, definite plural deshtë)
- ram (male sheep)
Derived terms
- Dash
- Dashnor
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English dash
Noun
dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dasher, definite plural dashene)
- a dash (small amount)
- short for dashbord.
References
- “dash” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English dash
Noun
dash m (definite singular dashen, indefinite plural dashar, definite plural dashane)
- a dash (small amount)
- short for dashbord.
References
- “dash” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Ojibwe
Alternative forms
- idash
- -sh
Adverb
dash
- and, and then, then
- but
Usage notes
dash comes in the second position in a clause, indicating that one thing happened after another. It can also have a contrastive meaning and then may be translated with but.
Derived terms
- aaniin dash (“why?”)
- mii dash (“and then”)
See also
- aanawi (“although, but”)
- apii (“then”)
- gaye (“as for, also”)
- miinawaa (“and again”)
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/dash-adv-conj
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