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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. [1913 Webster] Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust. --Denham. [1913 Webster] The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Then while I dragged my brains for such a song. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. [1913 Webster] Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden. [1913 Webster] To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship. Syn: See Draw. [1913 Webster]
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)