drag | the act of dragging (pulling with force), the drag up the hill exhausted him |
puff drag pull | a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke), he took a puff on his pipe, he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly |
drag | clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man), he went to the party dressed in drag, the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag |
main drag | the main street of a town or city |
tail rotor anti-torque rotor | rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a singleotor helicopter, keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor |
torque converter | converter for transmitting and amplifying torque (especially by hydraulic means) |
torque wrench | a wrench that has a gauge that indicates the amount of torque being applied |
consequence import moment | having important effects or influence, decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself, virtue is of more moment than security, that result is of no consequence |
drag | something tedious and boring, peeling potatoes is a drag |
senior moment | a momentary lapse of memory (especially in older people) |
drag | something that slows or delays progress, taxation is a drag on the economy, too many laws are a drag on the use of new land |
moment | the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value |
arithmetic mean first moment expectation expected value | the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values |
second moment | the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin |
product-moment correlation coefficient Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient | the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between variables that are linearly related |
moment of inertia | the tendency of a body to resist angular acceleration |
moment | a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force) |
moment of a couple | given two equal and opposite forces, the product of the force and the distance between them |
dipole moment | the moment of a dipole |
electric dipole moment | the dipole moment in an electric dipole |
magnetic dipole moment | (physics) a current loop gives rise to a magnetic field characteristic of a magnetic dipole, An orbiting electron in an atom will have a magnetic dipole moment |
magnetic moment moment of a magnet | the torque exerted on a magnet or dipole when it is placed in a magnetic field |
drag retarding force | the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid |
torsion torque | a twisting force |
drag coefficient coefficient of drag | the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body |
moment magnitude scale | a logarithmic scale of to(a successor to the Richter scale) that enables seismologists to compare the energy released by different earthquakes on the basis of the area of the geological fault that ruptured in the quake |
here and now present moment moment | at this time, the disappointments of the here and now, she is studying at the moment |
moment minute second instant | a particular point in time, the moment he arrived the party began |
moment of truth | a crucial moment on which much depends |
moment of truth | the moment in a bullfight when the matador kills the bull |
psychological moment | the most appropriate time for achieving a desired effect |
moment mo minute second bit | an indefinitely short time, wait just a moment, in a mo, it only takes a minute, in just a bit |
drag drag on drag out | proceed for an extended period of time, The speech dragged on for two hours |
drag | persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting, He dragged me away from the television set |
badmouth malign traduce drag through the mud | speak unfavorably about, She badmouths her husband everywhere |
drag up dredge up | mention something unpleasant from the past, Drag up old stories |
puff drag draw | suck in or take (air), draw a deep breath, draw on a cigarette |
dredge drag | search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost |
bunt drag a bunt | hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance |
drag | pull, as against a resistance, He dragged the big suitcase behind him, These worries were dragging at him |
haul hale cart drag | draw slowly or heavily, haul stones, haul nets |
drag down bear down bear down on press down on weigh down | exert a force with a heavy weight, The snow bore down on the roof |
scuff drag | walk without lifting the feet |
drag trail get behind hang back drop behind drop back | to lag or linger behind, But in so many other areas we still are dragging |
drag | move slowly and as if with great effort |
drag | use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu, drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen |
procrastinate stall drag one's feet drag one's heels shillyshally dilly-dally dillydally | postpone doing what one should be doing, He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days |
embroil tangle sweep sweep up drag drag in | force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action, They were swept up by the events, don't drag me into this business |
drag on drag out | last unnecessarily long |
spur-of-the-moment | in response to an unforeseen need, a spur-of-the-moment party |