dragとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Capitol St., the main drag of Charleston, June 1973.

Someone taking a drag on a cigarette.

From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of 古期英語 dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵʰ- (“to draw, drag”). Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled または dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.

名詞

drag (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 drags)

1. (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.

   When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.

2. (by analogy with above) Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.

   A high thrust-to-weight ratio helps a rocket to overcome the effects of gravity drag.

3. (countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
4. (countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
5. (countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
6. (countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

   Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag.

   • December 24, 1865, James David Forbes, letter to Dr. Symonds

     My lectures […] were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.

7. (countable, slang) A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats. [from mid-18th c.]
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     Alcee Arobin and Mrs. Highcamp called for her one bright afternoon in Arobin's drag.

8. (countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'. [from mid-19th c.]
9. (countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.

   to run a drag

10. (countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
11. A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
12. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.

    a stone drag

13. (metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
14. (masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
15. (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.
16. 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.
17. A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
18. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
    • c. 1800, William Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance with Poets

      Had a drag in his walk.

19. Witch house music. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
20. The last position in a line of hikers.
    • 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 73:

      Okay, I'll take point, Kate, you take drag.

21. (aviation, aerodynamics) The act of suppressing wind flow to slow an aircraft in flight, as by use of flaps when landing.
22. (billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
23. A device for guiding wood to the saw.
24. (historical) A mailcoach.
25. (slang) A prison sentence of three months
    • 1869, A Merchant. Editor: Frank Henderson, Six Years in the Prisons of England

      The copper knew I did that job, and had me up on suspicion some time after, and gave me a drag (three months) over it. The next bit I did was a 'sixer' (six months), and I escaped from prison in about three weeks after I got it.

派生語

動詞

drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged or (dialectal) drug)

Tamil fishermen dragging their boat.

Fishing by dragging a river.

1. (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.

   Let's drag this load of wood over to the shed.

   The misbehaving child was dragged out of the classroom.

2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

   Time seems to drag when you’re waiting for a bus.

   • 1816, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], OCLC 1015450009, canto III, stanza XXXII:

     The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.

   • a. 1732', John Gay, epistle to a Lady

     Long, open panegyric drags at best.

   • 2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     The Irishman is the director’s longest drama, but it never drags.

3. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
   • 2013 September-October, James R. Carter, “Flowers and Ribbons of Ice”, in American Scientist:

     Dragging yourself out of a warm bed in the early hours of a wintry morning to go for a hike in the woods: It’s not an easy thing for some to do, but the visual treasures that await could be well worth the effort. If the weather conditions and the local flora are just right, you might come across fleeting, delicate frozen formations sprouting from certain plant stems, literally a garden of ice.

4. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
   • 1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

     have dragged a lingering life

5. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
   • 1883, William Clark Russell, Sailor’s Language:A collection of Sea-terms and Their Definitions

     A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.

6. (computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.

   Drag the file into the window to open it.

7. (chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.

   The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump.

8. (soccer) To hit or kick off target.
   • 2012, David Ornstein, BBC Sport, "Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham" [2], November 17

     Arsenal were struggling for any sort of rhythm and Aaron Lennon dragged an effort inches wide as Tottenham pressed for a second.

9. To fish with a dragnet.
11. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
12. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.

    Synonym: harrow

13. (figuratively) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
    • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748, (please specify the page number, または |part=prologue, I to VII, または conclusion):

      while I dragged my brains for such a song

14. (slang) To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).

    Synonyms: criticize; see also Thesaurus:criticize

    You just drag him 'cause he's got more money than you.

派生語

• drag one's feet
• draggle
• dragline
• updrag
• what the cat dragged in

関連する語

• dragnet

参考

• (call attention to the flaws of): read

語源 2

Conchita Wurst in drag during the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.

Possibly from English drag (“to pull along a surface”) because of the sensation of long skirts trailing on the floor, or from Yiddish טראָגן‎ (trogn, “to wear”)^[1]

名詞

drag (usually uncountable, 複数形 drags)

1. (uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment. [from late 19th c.]
   • 1870 May 30, “The Men in Women's Clothes”, in The Times, ISSN 0140-0460, page 13:

     I know what "in drag" means; it is the slang for going about in women's clothes.

   • 1968, Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, London: Cape, OCLC 654718241, page 82:

     With the aid of informers they discovered where the great drag dances were being held and turned their attention thither. [...] They couldn't, of course, be advertised, but no publicity was needed. The network always managed to reach any one who might want to go and had half-a-crown to spare for a ticket. About three-quarters of the men who attended these dances were in drag.

   He performed in drag.

2. (countable, slang) A men's party attended in women's clothing. [from early 20th c.]
   • 1927, Aaron J. Rosanoff, “Sexual Psychopaths”, in Manual of Psychiatry, Sixth edition, New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., OCLC 1090860194, page 203:

     A heterosexual person cannot really break into their [homosexuals'] inner circles. They have parties or "drags" to which only homosexuals are admitted, and at these some generally appear in female dress.

   • 1942, Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps, New York: Harcourt Brace and World, OCLC 490011513, page 104:

     This freedom of speech of hers was a kind of masquerade of sexuality, like the rubber breasts homosexuals put on for drags, [...]

3. (uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.

   corporate drag

派生語

• (women's clothing worn by men): drag daughter, drag king, drag queen, drag show
• (any type of clothing): lally-drags

動詞

drag (三人称単数 現在形 drags, 現在分詞 dragging, 過去形および過去分詞形 dragged)

1. To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

参照

• Flight, 1913, p. 126 attributing to Archibald Low
• “Drag” in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• Gard, Grad, darg, gard, grad