What's the difference between diddle and drag?

Diddle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To totter, as a child in walking.
  • (v. t.) To cheat or overreach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.00pm BST 14 min: Commons tries to trick the keeper by cracking a freekick in at the near post rather than crossing, but you have to get up earlier than that to diddle Smokin' Mokin, who beats the ball away acrobatically.
  • (2) The ministerial batting partnership of Cable and Fallon played a straight bat to claims that the investment banks diddled the government, and were aggressive in categorically disputing that taxpayers lost out.
  • (3) The Scottish Labour party said the deficit destroyed the Scottish National party's case that the country was being "diddled" by the rest of the UK and underlined the importance for Scotland of remaining in the union to share risks and rewards.
  • (4) Updated at 11.42pm BST 11.05pm BST ET 6 min: Robben shows a bit of rare ambition, his toes twinkling down the right, diddling Demichelis and winning a corner.
  • (5) Aguero diddles across the QPR area from the left, and then slips a pass through to Tevez.
  • (6) 3 min: From a corner, Benzema picks up the ball on the edge of the Rangers box, thinks about a shot, then checks and feeds Baros, who so nearly diddles Papac down the right.
  • (7) "This shows the huge economic benefits of Scotland working in partnership with the rest of the UK and explodes the myth that somehow Scotland's finances are being diddled by the club we are part of," he said.
  • (8) 35 min: Bendtner diddles down the right and loops the ball into the six-yard area.
  • (9) Anita diddles around down the right, reaching the byline and laying off for Gutierrez, whose cross is guided away from danger by Hart.
  • (10) 5.42pm GMT 82 min: Suarez diddles his way into the Chelsea area on the left but he's crowded out.
  • (11) 8.24pm BST 23 min: Snodgrass diddles around on the edge of the England area, and should be awarded a free kick, Gerrard coming through the back of him.
  • (12) 21 min: Fucile and Alvaro Pereira diddle down the left.
  • (13) 2.58pm BST In the women's final, the wonderful, wondrous Serena Williams diddled Sara Errani 6-3, 6-0.
  • (14) Nasri diddles his way in from the left and thumps one goalwards from 20 yards out.
  • (15) 6.48pm GMT 60 min: That was incredibly poor judgement from Lovren there, who was diddled all ends up by Suarez.
  • (16) 1.31pm GMT 45 min: Simpson diddles Clichy down the right and swings one to the far post, where Cisse causes enough bother to win a corner.
  • (17) 6.35pm BST 78 min: Messi dances and diddles into the area down the inside left.

Drag


Definition:

  • (n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug.
  • (v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
  • (v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
  • (v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
  • (v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
  • (v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
  • (v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
  • (v. i.) To fish with a dragnet.
  • (v. t.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
  • (v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
  • (v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
  • (v. t.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
  • (v. t.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
  • (v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
  • (v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
  • (v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
  • (v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
  • (v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
  • (v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
  • (v. t.) 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. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
  • (2) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (3) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
  • (4) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
  • (5) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
  • (6) The longer the problem drags on, the less likely it is we get off lightly," he told the paper.
  • (7) "Those shows are genuinely moving us forward as an industry, they are dragging the rest of us behind," he says.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Neighbor Olga Ennis: ‘I watched them drag his body out of the house.
  • (9) I’m staying in a mobile home called a njalla , designed by artist and architect Joar Nango, which sits on wooden skis that allow you to drag it to a spot of your choosing.
  • (10) People were holding on to him, trying to pull themselves up by his belt, but only succeeded in dragging him into the water.
  • (11) The poor trade data indicate that net trade was an appreciable drag on GDP growth in the third quarter and was a major factor why expansion did not come in as high as 1.0% quarter-on-quarter as had seemed possible at one point.
  • (12) In PT (a) large extracellular markers are dragged by water flow indicating extracellular solute-water interaction, (b) transepithelial Pos is much higher than transcellular Pos.
  • (13) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
  • (14) Tractional water resistance (drag, D, N) was also measured in the same range of speeds.
  • (15) If you stand on the main pedestrian drag, Ferhadija, and look east, you could be in Istanbul or Cairo.
  • (16) It would be a mistake to rush it.” But, while revealing disappointing trading figures for the Christmas period and a gloomy outlook for 2017 , Wolfson said he did not think Brexit jitters were stopping people from shopping: “It is more the fact that incomes are likely to be squeezed.” Next's gloomy 2017 forecast drags down fashion retail shares Read more Wolfson was one of a handful of senior business leaders to openly back Brexit but has said in the past that the referendum vote was about UK independence, not isolation, and the country should be aiming for “an open, global-facing economy”.
  • (17) The brothers said they were pleased that after “a great deal of dragging of their heels” the Mail and Hopkins had accepted the allegations were false.
  • (18) With the cultures of mycoplasmas obtained from the eyes of human patients suffering from sympathetic ophthalmia, it was possible to produce the same symptoms in chickens as were described by the author in 1950 in sympathizing and sympathized human eyes, namely: torpid uveitis and papillitis, which dragged on for months, and affected not only the inoculated right eye, but also, after 3 weeks and more, the untouched left eye.
  • (19) Interactions among the important constituents of the fibrocartilage matrix cause meniscal tissue to behave as a fiber-reinforced, porous, permeable composite material similar to articular cartilage, in which frictional drag caused by fluid flow governs its response to dynamic loading.
  • (20) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.