Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner;
- Example: "it was a strange dragging approach"- Example: "years of dragging war"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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; to pull along the ground
by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing
heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with
labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag
stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
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Dragged by the cords which through his feet were
thrust. --Denham.
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The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag
thee down. --Tennyson.
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A needless Alexandrine ends the song
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length
along. --Pope.
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2. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to
harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or
other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
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Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.
--Tennyson.
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3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in
pain or with difficulty.
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Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden.
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To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom
when the anchor will not hold the ship.
Syn: See Draw.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
dragging \dragging\ adj.
painfully or tediously slow and boring; as, the dragging
minutes.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dragging
adj 1: marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner; "it was
a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
drag and drop
drag
dragging
A common method for manipulating files (and sometimes text)
under a graphical user interface or WIMP environment. The
user moves the pointer over an icon representing a file and
presses a mouse button. He holds the button down while moving
the pointer (dragging the file) to another place, usually a
directory viewer or an icon for some application program,
and then releases the button (dropping the file). The meaning
of this action can often be modified by holding certain keys
on the keyboard at the same time.
Some systems also use this technique for objects other than
files, e.g. portions of text in a word processor.
The biggest problem with drag and drop is does it mean "copy"
or "move"? The answer to this question is not intuitively
evident, and there is no consensus for which is the right
answer. The same vendor even makes it move in some cases and
copy in others. Not being sure whether an operation is copy
or move will cause you to check very often, perhaps every time
if you need to be certain. Mistakes can be costly. People
make mistakes all the time with drag and drop. Human
computer interaction studies show a higher failure rate for
such operations, but also a higher "forgiveness rate" (users
think "silly me") than failures with commands (users think
"stupid machine"). Overall, drag and drop took some 40 times
longer to do than single-key commands.
[Erik Naggum ]
(2007-06-15)