dragging along

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• along — [[t]əlɒ̱ŋ, AM əlɔ͟ːŋ[/t]] ♦ (In addition to the uses shown below, along is used in phrasal verbs such as go along with , play along , and string along .) 1) PREP If you move or look along something such as a road, you move or look towards one end …   English dictionary

• dragging — adj. sluggish; passing painfully or slowly in a boring manner dræg n. tool used for dragging along the bottom of a body of water to recover objects; impediment, opposite force (such as the force working against an aircraft in motion); act of… …   English contemporary dictionary

• Dragging Canoe — Tsiyu Gansini (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ), He is dragging his canoe , known to whites as Dragging Canoe, (c. 1738 – March 1, 1792) was a Cherokee war chief who led a band of Cherokee against colonists and United States settlers. Beginning during the American… …   Wikipedia

• Dragging — Drag Drag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dragging}.] [OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. ? See {Draw}.] 1. To draw slowly or heavily onward;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• dragging — the operation of a trawl (a bag shaped net towed behind a ship either along the sea floor or in midwater, having a buoyed head rope and a weighted foot rope to keep the net mouth open) …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Frame-dragging — Albert Einstein s theory of general relativity predicts that rotating bodies drag spacetime around themselves in a phenomenon referred to as frame dragging. The rotational frame dragging effect was first derived from the theory of general… …   Wikipedia

• Drag-Along Rights — A right that enables a majority shareholder to force a minority shareholder to join in the sale of a company. The majority owner doing the dragging must give the minority shareholder the same price, terms, and conditions as any other seller. This …   Investment dictionary

• tugging along — pulling along, dragging …   English contemporary dictionary

• drag — 1 verb dragged, dragging 1 PULL ALONG THE GROUND (T) to pull someone or something along the ground, often because they are too heavy to carry: drag sth away/along/through etc: Inge managed to drag the table into the kitchen. | Angry protesters… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• drag — drag1 W3S3 [dræg] v past tense and past participle dragged present participle dragging ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(pull something)¦ 2¦(pull somebody)¦ 3 drag yourself to/into/out of etc something 4¦(persuade somebody to come)¦ 5¦(computer)¦ 6¦(be boring)¦… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• drag — drag1 [ dræg ] verb ** ▸ 1 pull with difficulty ▸ 2 pull someone against will ▸ 3 make someone do something ▸ 4 touch ground ▸ 5 when time seems slow ▸ 6 in computing ▸ 7 search water with net ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) transitive to pull something or… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English