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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#m1)

2) To drag yourself somewhere means to go slowly because you do not want to or are tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#m2)

3) If time or something boring drags, it seems to go very slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#m3)

4) On a computer, to drag means to move something on the screen by holding the mouse button or your finger and moving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#m4)

5) A drag is something boring or annoying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#m5)

6) In science, drag is a force that slows things down as they move through air or water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#m6)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#x1)
- Drag the picture into the box on the screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#x2)
- The lesson seemed to drag on forever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#x3)
- A parachute creates lots of drag to slow you down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#x4)
- Fish have smooth shapes to reduce drag in the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#x5)
- The dog dragged me down the street on its lead. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#x6)
- Doing chores is such a drag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#x7)
- Stop dragging your feet and get ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#x8)
- Then the servants seized Katoma and dragged him to the palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/14/)
- [Leopards drag their kills, sometimes as heavy as themselves, up into trees where lions and hyenas cannot steal them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/5/)
- [Hunters lived there too: cave lions, cave hyenas that dragged bones to their dens, and people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/4/)
- [Cave hyenas cracked bones with powerful jaws and dragged them to their dens, which scientists find by gnawed bones and fossil droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/17/)
- [Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the sett.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drag» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drag/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.