Drag vs. Drift
Dragnoun
(uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
Dragnoun
The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
Dragnoun
(countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
Dragnoun
A puff on a cigarette or joint.
Dragnoun
Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
Dragnoun
A type of horse-drawn carriage.
Dragnoun
Street, as in 'main drag'.
Dragnoun
(countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
Dragnoun
A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
Dragnoun
A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
Dragnoun
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
Dragnoun
(metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
Dragnoun
(masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
Dragnoun
(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.
Dragnoun
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.
Dragnoun
A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
Dragnoun
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
Dragnoun
witch house music
Dragnoun
The last position in a line of hikers.
Dragnoun
The act of suppressing wind flow to slow an aircraft in flight, as by use of flaps when landing.
Dragnoun
Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
Dragnoun
Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
Dragverb
(transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
Dragverb
(intransitive) To move slowly.
Dragverb
To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
Dragverb
To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
Dragverb
To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
Dragverb
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
Dragverb
(computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
Dragverb
(chiefly of a vehicle) To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
Dragverb
(soccer) To hit or kick off target.
Dragverb
To fish with a dragnet.
Dragverb
To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
Dragverb
To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
Dragverb
(figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
Dragverb
(slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
Dragverb
To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
Dragnoun
A confection; a comfit; a drug.
Dragnoun
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
Dragnoun
A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
Dragnoun
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
Dragnoun
A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
Dragnoun
A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
Dragnoun
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).
Dragnoun
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
Dragnoun
The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
Dragnoun
A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
Dragnoun
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.
Dragverb
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.
Dragverb
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.
Dragverb
To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
Dragverb
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.
Dragverb
To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
Dragverb
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
Dragverb
To fish with a dragnet.
Dragnoun
the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
Dragnoun
something that slows or delays progress;
Dragnoun
something tedious and boring;
Dragnoun
clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man);
Dragnoun
a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke);
Dragnoun
the act of dragging (pulling with force);
Dragverb
pull, as against a resistance;
Dragverb
draw slowly or heavily;
Dragverb
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;
Dragverb
move slowly and as if with great effort
Dragverb
to lag or linger behind;
Dragverb
suck in or take (air);
Dragverb
use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu;
Dragverb
walk without lifting the feet
Dragverb
search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
Dragverb
persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting;
Dragverb
proceed for an extended period of time;
Dragverb
pull (someone or something) along forcefully, roughly, or with difficulty
Dragverb
take (someone) to or from a place or event, despite their reluctance
Dragverb
go somewhere wearily, reluctantly, or with difficulty
Dragverb
move (an image or highlighted text) across a computer screen using a tool such as a mouse
Dragverb
(of a person's clothes or an animal's tail) trail along the ground
Dragverb
catch hold of and pull (something)
Dragverb
(of a ship) trail (an anchor) along the seabed, drifting in the process
Dragverb
(of an anchor) fail to hold, causing a ship or boat to drift
Dragverb
search the bottom of (a river, lake, or the sea) with grapnels or nets
Dragverb
(of time) pass slowly and tediously
Dragverb
(of a process or situation) continue at tedious and unnecessary length
Dragverb
protract something unnecessarily
Dragnoun
the action of pulling something forcefully or with difficulty
Dragnoun
the longitudinal retarding force exerted by air or other fluid surrounding a moving object
Dragnoun
a person or thing that impedes progress or development
Dragnoun
unnatural motion of a fishing fly caused by the pull of the line.
Dragnoun
an iron shoe that can be applied as a brake to the wheel of a cart or wagon.
Dragnoun
a boring or tiresome person or thing
Dragnoun
an act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette
Dragnoun
clothing more conventionally worn by the opposite sex, especially women's clothes worn by a man
Dragnoun
a street or road
Dragnoun
a thing that is pulled along the ground or through water.
Dragnoun
a harrow used for breaking up the surface of land.
Dragnoun
an apparatus for dredging or for recovering objects from the bottom of a river or lake.
Dragnoun
another term for dragnet
Dragnoun
a strong-smelling lure drawn before hounds as a substitute for a fox.
Dragnoun
a hunt using a drag lure.
Dragnoun
influence over other people
Dragnoun
one of the basic patterns (rudiments) of drumming, consisting of a stroke preceded by two grace notes usually played with the other stick.
Dragnoun
short for drag race
Dragnoun
a private vehicle like a stagecoach, drawn by four horses.
Dragnoun
a car
Driftnoun
(physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
Driftnoun
(obsolete) A driving; a violent movement.
Driftnoun
Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
Driftnoun
That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
Driftnoun
Anything driven at random.
Driftnoun
A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
Driftnoun
The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Driftnoun
A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
Driftnoun
A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
Driftnoun
Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
Driftnoun
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
Driftnoun
A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
Driftnoun
The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
Driftnoun
(architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Driftnoun
(handiwork) A tool.
Driftnoun
A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
Driftnoun
A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
Driftnoun
A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
Driftnoun
A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
Driftnoun
(mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Driftnoun
(nautical) Movement.
Driftnoun
The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
Driftnoun
The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
Driftnoun
The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
Driftnoun
The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
Driftnoun
The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
Driftnoun
(cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
Driftnoun
Slow, cumulative change.
Driftverb
(intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
Driftverb
(intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
Driftverb
(intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
Driftverb
(transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
Driftverb
(transitive) To drive into heaps.
Driftverb
(intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
Driftverb
To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
Driftverb
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
Driftverb
To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
Driftnoun
A driving; a violent movement.
Driftnoun
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
Driftnoun
Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
Driftnoun
The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
Driftnoun
That which is driven, forced, or urged along
Driftnoun
A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
Driftnoun
The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
Driftnoun
A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
Driftnoun
In South Africa, a ford in a river.
Driftnoun
A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
Driftnoun
A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
Driftnoun
A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
Driftnoun
The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
Driftnoun
The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
Driftnoun
One of the slower movements of oceanic circulation; a general tendency of the water, subject to occasional or frequent diversion or reversal by the wind; as, the easterly drift of the North Pacific.
Driftnoun
The horizontal component of the pressure of the air on the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine. The lift is the corresponding vertical component, which sustains the machine in the air.
Driftverb
To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
Driftverb
To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
Driftverb
to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
Driftverb
To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
Driftverb
To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
Driftverb
To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
Driftadjective
That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
Driftnoun
a force that moves something along
Driftnoun
the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
Driftnoun
a process of linguistic change over a period of time
Driftnoun
something that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
Driftnoun
a general tendency to change (as of opinion);
Driftnoun
general meaning or tenor;
Driftnoun
a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine;
Driftverb
be in motion due to some air or water current;
Driftverb
wander from a direct course or at random;
Driftverb
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
Driftverb
vary or move from a fixed point or course;
Driftverb
live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely;
Driftverb
move in an unhurried fashion;
Driftverb
cause to be carried by a current;
Driftverb
drive slowly and far afield for grazing;
Driftverb
be subject to fluctuation;
Driftverb
be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current;
Driftverb
be carried slowly by a current of air or water
Driftverb
walk slowly, aimlessly, or casually
Driftverb
move passively, aimlessly, or involuntarily into a certain situation or condition
Driftverb
(of a person or their attention) digress or stray to another subject
Driftverb
(especially of snow or leaves) be blown into heaps by the wind
Driftnoun
a continuous slow movement from one place to another
Driftnoun
the deviation of a vessel, aircraft, or projectile from its intended or expected course as the result of currents or winds
Driftnoun
a steady movement or development from one thing towards another that is perceived as unwelcome
Driftnoun
a state of inaction or indecision
Driftnoun
a controlled skid, used in taking bends at high speeds.
Driftnoun
the general intention or meaning of an argument or someone's remarks
Driftnoun
a large mass of snow, leaves, or other material piled up or carried along by the wind
Driftnoun
glacial and fluvioglacial deposits left by retreating ice sheets.
Driftnoun
a large spread of flowering plants growing together
Driftnoun
a horizontal or inclined passage following a mineral vein or coal seam
Driftnoun
an act of driving cattle or sheep.
Driftnoun
an act of herding cattle within a forest to a particular place on an appointed day in order to determine ownership or to levy fines.
Driftnoun
a ford.
