drag – English noun declension

English noun forms of drag

Noun: drag
Singulardrag
Pluraldrags

Sample Sentences

  • When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.
  • A high thrust-to-weight ratio helps a rocket to overcome the effects of gravity drag.
  • "He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour." [1920 June 26, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 151, column 3:]
  • He got high after just one drag of the joint.
  • Give me a drag on that roach!
  • Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag.
  • December 24, 1865, James David Forbes, letter to Dr. Symonds
  • My lectures […] were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.
  • Yes, I wish that for just one time / You could stand inside my shoes / You'd know what a drag it is / To see you [1965, Bob Dylan, “Positively 4th Street”:]
  • I’m down here readin’ for my little go during the Long, only I come over from Baymouth pretty often in my drag… [1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 10, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:]
  • Alcee Arobin and Mrs. Highcamp called for her one bright afternoon in Arobin's drag. [1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:]
  • the main drag
  • a back drag
  • to run a drag
  • Near-synonyms: dray, stoneboat
  • a stone drag
  • A northbound drag of furnace coal on the former South Yorkshire Joint Line crosses the East Coast main line near Black Carr behind Class "O4/1" 2-8-0 No. 63693. [1959 October, “South of Doncaster”, in Trains Illustrated, page 470, photo caption:]
  • Had a drag in his walk. [c. 1800, William Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance with Poets:]
  • “Our music is not like some other types where the energy is back and forth – music considered drag is like giving up oneself, to be pulled and controlled,” she says. [2010 March 8, Scott Wright, quoting Heather Marlatt, “Scene and heard: Drag”, in The Guardian:]
  • Whatever the appellation, these artists are doing some amazing stuff. Haunted house and drag are probably the most apposite terms because the music sounds like ghostly apparitions of old dance tunes, only at half-speed. [2010 September 29, Paul Lester, “New band of the day - No 877: oOoOO”, in The Guardian:]
  • They call this music drag because it's like dance music dragged down by the ponderous weight of existence (there's a Balam Acab track called Heavy Living Things); they call it witch house because it haunts you long after you stop listening. [2010 December 2, Paul Lester, “New band of the day – No 922: Balam Acab”, in The Guardian:]
  • In your own words, what is drag or witch house music? [2011 January 24, David Wicik, “Exorcising the Ghost: oOoOO breaks down the buzz about “drag””, in Newcity:]
  • Okay, I'll take point, Kate, you take drag. [1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 73:]
  • The sodger who done it was quodded, but only for a drag, and he swore to God as how he’d do for me the next time as he comed across me. [1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:]
  • 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.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰrógʰ-e-ti
4. Proto-Germanic *draganą
5. Proto-West Germanic *dragan
6. Old English dragan
7. Middle English dragen
8. Middle English draggen
9. Low German draggeinflu.
10. English drag
11. 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 *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).
12. 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. See: Old English Nouns 'dragan', Old Norse Nouns 'draga', Danish Nouns 'drage', Icelandic Nouns 'draga'.

Verbs referencing "drag"

English Nouns trawl, Latin Nouns tergum, Russian Nouns драга, Swedish Nouns dragg.