What is the meaning of drag?

noun

• The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
  • synonyms: retarding force
• Something that slows or delays progress.
  • usage: "taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"
• Something tedious and boring.
  • usage: "peeling potatoes is a drag"
• Clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man. )
  • usage: "he went to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag"
• A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke. )
  • usage: "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"
  • synonyms: puff, pull
• The act of dragging (pulling with force. )
  • usage: "the drag up the hill exhausted him"

verb

• Pull, as against a resistance.
  • usage: "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
• Draw slowly or heavily.
  • usage: "haul stones"; "haul nets"
  • synonyms: haul, hale, cart
• Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.
  • usage: "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
  • synonyms: embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag in
• Move slowly and as if with great effort.
• To lag or linger behind.
  • usage: "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
  • synonyms: trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back
• Suck in or take (air. )
  • usage: "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
  • synonyms: puff, draw
• Use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu.
  • usage: "drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen"
• Walk without lifting the feet.
  • synonyms: scuff
• Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost.
  • synonyms: dredge
• Persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting.
  • usage: "He dragged me away from the television set"
• Proceed for an extended period of time.
  • usage: "The speech dragged on for two hours"
  • synonyms: drag on, drag out