(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.
Hale
Definition:
(a.) Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
(n.) Welfare.
(v. t.) To pull; to drag; to haul.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hale-Stoner mice (6 to 8 weeks old) were injected with 7 X 10(5) CFU of Candida albicans 336 isolated from a patient.
(2) Comet Hale-Bopp graced the night skies in 1997 and was easily visible to the naked eye for months.
(3) Stephen Hale, Green Alliance director, said: "Ed Miliband's first major decision suggests he gets it.
(4) Phase 1 studies of "in vivo purging" with a monovalent CD3 antibody (Clark et al., 1989), and also with a genetically engineered humanized IgG1 (CAMPATH-1H) (Hale et al., 1988b) suggest that these limitations can be overcome.
(5) It will also star Tony Hale, known for his hapless characters in Arrested Development and Veep, and Natasha Lyonne, currently enjoying a career renaissance for her role in Netflix series Orange is the New Black.
(6) Asked what it felt like being the only woman justice, Hale said: "Most of the time you are not conscious of it.
(7) The Bank confirmed that the governor had had a private lunch with Hale, but said it had been two months ago.
(8) Three analyses are reported that are based on data from 19 studies using lexical tasks and a reduced version of the Hale, Myerson, and Wagstaff (1987) nonlexical data set.
(9) "One might just as well say that logically, on Lady Hale's approach, it would be irrational not to supply a night carer to take the client to the commode, irrespective of cost, if there is any likelihood of the client having to urinate even once during the night."
(10) Lady Hale's judgment adds weight to calls from the House of Lords select committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 last week for the safeguards to be replaced with procedures which provide an independent check on a person's care, but which are more in keeping with the ethos of the Act."
(11) The home secretary also announced that the Metropolitan police had agreed to investigate allegations by a journalist, Don Hale, that a file of allegations involving prominent people, including MPs, passed to him by Barbara Castle, had been seized from him by special branch officers.
(12) But as the deputy president of the court, Lady Hale, pointed out in the ruling [pdf] : “It cannot possibly be in the best interests of the children affected by the cap to deprive them of the means to provide them with adequate food, clothing, warmth and housing, the basic necessities of life.” The court urged the government to review the cap accordingly.
(13) Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond (supreme court judge) 5.
(14) In the case of CGL in chronic phase, there is also an associated extra risk of relapse, particularly in patients where engraftment may have been compromised (Hale et al., 1988a).
(15) The former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said Hale had pro-EU views and warned that it was not the job of judges to tell parliament what to do.
(16) Examples include parts of the Varsity Line between Oxford and Cambridge, Lea Bridge station between Stratford and Tottenham Hale, which reopened in May after the council provided £5m in funding, and in Bristol, work to reopen the Portishead line will begin in 2018 .
(17) At a press conference convened at Cornelius's Romanian-Italian restaurant in Tottenham Hale, north London, he questioned the actions of Ukip candidates "scapegoating" immigrants.
(18) Hales believes there is the goodwill to pull it off.
(19) In an additional judgment, Lady Hale , deputy president of the court, said she had "some sympathy for the view of the Strasbourg court that our present law [on prisoner voting] is arbitrary and indiscriminate.".
(20) Histochemical methods were used for the detection of glycogen (periodic acid-Schiff), acid mucopolysaccharides (Hale) and acid phosphatases (Gomori) by light microscopy.