drag

«drag» in Mova's school dictionary: to pull it along the ground, often because it is heavy — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (drag, drags, dragged, dragging); noun (a drag; drag, uncountable in science)

meaning for a pupil

1) To drag something means to pull it along the ground, often because it is heavy. tree →

2) To drag yourself somewhere means to go slowly because you do not want to or are tired. tree →

3) If time or something boring drags, it seems to go very slowly. tree →

4) On a computer, to drag means to move something on the screen by holding the mouse button or your finger and moving. tree →

5) A drag is something boring or annoying. tree →

6) In science, drag is a force that slows things down as they move through air or water. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons: drag is air resistance or water resistance, a kind of friction; streamlined shapes like fish, rockets and racing bikes have less drag; parachutes use lots of drag. On computers: «drag and drop». In everyday safety, drag heavy bags rather than lifting them badly, or ask for help. Phrases: «drag and drop», «drag your feet» (be slow or unwilling), «what a drag», «drag on».

examples

• He dragged his heavy bag along the ground. tree →
• Drag the picture into the box on the screen. tree →
• The lesson seemed to drag on forever. tree →
• A parachute creates lots of drag to slow you down. tree →
• Fish have smooth shapes to reduce drag in the water. tree →
• The dog dragged me down the street on its lead. tree →
• Doing chores is such a drag. tree →
• Stop dragging your feet and get ready. tree →
• Then the servants seized Katoma and dragged him to the palace. tree →

note

Double the g: «dragged, dragging» (not «drug», which is a non-standard past in some US speech). In science, drag acts in the opposite direction to the movement.

In the corpora

• An anonymous forum post is not news, and children's lives should never be dragged into gossip.
• Leopards drag their kills, sometimes as heavy as themselves, up into trees where lions and hyenas cannot steal them.
• Hunters lived there too: cave lions, cave hyenas that dragged bones to their dens, and people.
• Cave hyenas cracked bones with powerful jaws and dragged them to their dens, which scientists find by gnawed bones and fossil droppings.
• Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the sett.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «drag» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.