Drag (n.) A confection |
Drag (v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward |
Drag (v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it |
Drag (v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome |
Drag (v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground |
Drag (v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly |
Drag (v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance |
Drag (v. i.) To fish with a dragnet. |
Drag (v. t.) The act of dragging |
Drag (v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. |
Drag (v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies |
Drag (v. t.) A heavy coach with seats on top |
Drag (v. t.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. |
Drag (v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind |
Drag (v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. |
Drag (v. t.) Hence, anything that retards |
Drag (v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. |
Drag (v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. |
Drag (v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. |
Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw |
Fold (v. t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds |
Fold (v. t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands |
Fold (v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings |
Fold (v. t.) To cover or wrap up |
Fold (v. i.) To become folded, plaited, or doubled |
Fold (v.) A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance |
Fold (v.) Times or repetitions |
Fold (v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops |
Fold (n.) An inclosure for sheep |
Fold (n.) A flock of sheep |
Fold (n.) A boundary |
Fold (v. t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep. |
Fold (v. i.) To confine sheep in a fold. |
Thresh-fold (n.) Threshold. |
drag | the act of dragging (pulling with force), the drag up the hill exhausted him |
fold folding | the act of folding, he gave the napkins a double fold |
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 |
bi-fold door | an interior door |
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 |
fold sheepfold sheep pen sheepcote | a pen for sheep |
main drag | the main street of a town or city |
drag | something tedious and boring, peeling potatoes is a drag |
protective fold | a flap of tissue that protects what it covers |
epicanthus epicanthic fold | a vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus, normal for Mongolian peoples, sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome |
fold plica | a folded part (as in skin or muscle) |
vocal cord vocal fold vocal band plica vocalis | either of two pairs of folds of mucous membrane projecting into the larynx |
false vocal cord false vocal fold superior vocal cord ventricular fold vestibular fold | either of the upper two vocal cords that are not involved in vocalization |
true vocal cord true vocal fold inferior vocal cord inferior vocal fold | either of the two lower vocal folds that come together to form the glottis, produce a vocal tone when they are approximated and air from the lungs passes between them |
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 |
flock fold | a group of sheep or goats |
congregation fold faithful | a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church |
drag retarding force | the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid |
fold folding | a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock |
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 |
fold crease plication flexure crimp bend | an angular or rounded shape made by folding, a fold in the napkin, a crease in his trousers, a plication on her blouse, a flexure of the colon, a bend of his elbow |
drag drag on drag out | proceed for an extended period of time, The speech dragged on for two hours |
fold | incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating, Fold the egg whites into the batter |
fold a fold up | become folded or folded up, The bed folds in a jiffy |
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 |
fold fold up turn up | bend or lay so that one part covers the other, fold up the newspaper, turn up your collar |
pen up fold | confine in a fold, like sheep |
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 |
close up close fold shut down close down | cease to operate or cause to cease operating, The owners decided to move and to close the factory, My business closes every night at P.M., close up the shop |
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 |
double doubled twofold two-fold | twice as great or many, ate a double portion, the dose is doubled, a twofold increase |
double dual twofold two-fold treble threefold three-fold | having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities, a double (or dual) role for an actor, the office of a clergyman is twofold, public preaching and private influence- R.W.Emerson, every episode has its double and treble meaning-Frederick Harrison |
treble threefold three-fold triple | three times as great or many, a claim for treble (or triple) damages, a threefold increase |
quadruple fourfold four-fold | four times as great or many, a fourfold increase in the dosage |
quadruple quadruplicate quadruplex fourfold four-fold | having four units or components, quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure, quadruplex wire |
quintuple fivefold five-fold | having five units or components |
sextuple sixfold six-fold | having six units or components |