Usually means: Resistance force against object motion.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. drag: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. drag, drag, drag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. drag: Collins English Dictionary
  5. drag: Vocabulary.com
  6. Drag, drag: Wordnik
  7. drag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. drag: Wiktionary
  9. drag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. drag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. drag: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. drag: Dictionary.com
  13. drag: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. drag: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Drag (K.D. Lang album), Drag (Red Aunts album), Drag (aerodynamics), Drag (band), Drag (clothing), Drag (film), Drag (force), Drag (k.d. lang album), Drag (percussion), Drag (physics), Drag (route), Drag, The Drag (film), The Drag (play), The drag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Drag: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. drag: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. drag: Rhymezone
  19. drag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. drag: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. drag: Free Dictionary
  22. drag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. drag: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Drag: The Word Detective
  25. drag: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Drag: World Wide Words
  27. drag: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Drag (computer), Drag (disambiguation), drag: Legal dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. drag: CCI Computer
  2. drag: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. Drag: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. Drag (computer), Drag (disambiguation), Drag (physics), drag: Encyclopedia
  6. drag: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Drag (computer), Drag (disambiguation), drag: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DRAG: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. drag: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Drag: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. drag, drag, drag, drag, drag, drag, drag, drag, drag, drag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. drag: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Drag: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. Drag: 1960's Slang
  5. Drag, The Drag: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Drag: Sports Definitions

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Explosives (No longer online)
  6. drag: Canadian Soil Information System
  7. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  8. drag: Chapters in the Sky
  9. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  10. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  11. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  12. Drag: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
noun:  (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
noun:  (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
noun:  (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
noun:  (countable, informal) A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
noun:  (countable, music) A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
noun:  (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
noun:  (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
noun:  (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
noun:  (countable, slang) A street.
noun:  (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
noun:  (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
noun:  A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
noun:  A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
noun:  (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
noun:  (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
noun:  (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.
noun:  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.
noun:  A pulled load.
noun:  A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
noun:  Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
noun:  (uncountable, music) Witch house music.
noun:  The last position in a line of hikers.
noun:  (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
noun:  A device for guiding wood to the saw.
noun:  (historical) A mailcoach.
noun:  (slang) A prison sentence of three months.
verb:  (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
verb:  To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
verb:  To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
verb:  To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
verb:  To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
verb:  (graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
verb:  (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
verb:  (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
verb:  To fish with a dragnet.
verb:  To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
verb:  To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
verb:  (figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
verb:  (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
verb:  (intransitive, music) To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To inhale from a cigarette, cigar, etc.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
noun:  (uncountable, slang, by analogy) Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
noun:  (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing.
noun:  (countable, slang) A drag king or drag queen.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
verb:  To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

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