Drag vs. Drift

To pull along with difficulty or effort; haul

To be carried along by currents of air or water

To cause to trail along a surface, especially the ground

To proceed or move unhurriedly or aimlessly

To move (a pointing device, such as a mouse) while pressing down on one of its buttons.

To live or behave without a clear purpose or goal

To move (an element of a graphical display) on a computer screen using a pointing device.

To have no continuing focus; stray

To cause to move with great effort

To vary from or oscillate randomly about a fixed setting, position, or mode of operation.

To take or escort (a person, for example), especially in overcoming resistance or reluctance

To be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of a current

To cause to be involved in an unpleasant or difficult situation

To cause to be carried in a current

To force or bring out with great effort

To pile up in banks or heaps

To mention or introduce (an unpleasant or tedious subject)

Western US To drive (livestock) slowly or far afield, especially for grazing.

To search or sweep the bottom of (a body of water), as with a grappling hook or dragnet

Something moving along in a current of air or water

To bring up or catch by such means.

A bank or pile, as of sand or snow, heaped up by currents of air or water.

To prolong tediously

(Geology) Rock debris transported and deposited by or from ice, especially by or from a glacier.

(Baseball) To hit (a bunt) while taking the first steps toward first base.

A general trend or tendency, as of opinion.

To break up, rake, or smooth out (land or dirt), especially by pulling a drag or heavy mesh

General meaning or purport; tenor

(Informal) To humiliate or shame publicly, especially on social media

A gradual change in position

To trail along the ground

A gradual deviation from an original course, model, method, or intention.

To move slowly or with effort

Variation or random oscillation about a fixed setting, position, or mode of behavior.

To pass or proceed slowly, tediously, or laboriously

A gradual change in the output of a circuit or amplifier.

To search or dredge the bottom of a body of water

The rate of flow of a water current.

To take part in a drag race.

A tool for ramming or driving something down.

To draw on a cigarette, pipe, or cigar.

A tapered steel pin for enlarging and aligning holes.

Something, such as a harrow or an implement for spreading manure, that is dragged along the ground.

A horizontal or nearly horizontal passageway in a mine running through or parallel to a vein.

A device, such as a grappling hook, that is used for dragging under water.

A secondary mine passageway between two main shafts or tunnels.

A heavy sledge or cart for hauling loads.

A drove or herd, especially of swine.

A large four-horse coach with seats inside and on top.

(physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.

Something, such as a sea anchor or a brake on a fishing reel, that retards motion.

Anything driven at random.

One that impedes or slows progress; a drawback or burden

A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.

The degree of resistance involved in dragging or hauling.

The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

The retarding force exerted on a moving body by a fluid medium such as air or water.

A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.

The act of dragging, especially a slow, laborious movement.

A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.

The scent or trail of a fox or another animal.

Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.

Something that provides an artificial scent.

(obsolete) A driving; a violent movement.

(Slang) One that is obnoxiously tiresome

Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

A puff on a cigarette, pipe, or cigar.

That which is driven, forced, or urged along.

(Slang) A street or road

The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

The clothing characteristic of one sex when worn by a member of the opposite sex

A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.

Of, relating to, or being a person wearing clothing characteristic of the opposite sex

The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.

Of a fluid to something moving through it.

(architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

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

(handiwork) A tool.

The bottom part of a sand casting mold.

A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.

(countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.

A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.

A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.

A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.

A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.

A puff on a cigarette or joint.

(uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.

Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.

The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.

A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.

(mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

Street, as in 'main drag'.

(nautical) Movement.

(countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.

The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.

A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.

The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.

A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.

The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.

A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.

The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.

(metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.

The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.

(masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

(cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.

(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.

Slow, cumulative change.

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.

In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.

A pulled load.

(intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.

A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.

(intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.

Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

(intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.

Witch house music.

(transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.

The last position in a line of hikers.

(transitive) To drive into heaps.

(billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.

(intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.

A device for guiding wood to the saw.

To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.

(historical) A mailcoach.

To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.

(slang) A prison sentence of three months.

(automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).

Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.

A driving; a violent movement.

Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.

The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.

A men's party attended in women's clothing.

Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.

Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.

The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.

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

That which is driven, forced, or urged along

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

A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.

To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.

The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.

To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

In South Africa, a ford in a river.

(graphical user interface) To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.

A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.

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

A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.

(soccer) To hit or kick off target.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

To fish with a dragnet.

The distance through which a current flows in a given time.

To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.

The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.

To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.

One of the slower movements of oceanic circulation; a general tendency of the water, subject to occasional or frequent diversion or reversal by the wind; as, the easterly drift of the North Pacific.

(figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.

The horizontal component of the pressure of the air on the sustaining surfaces of a flying machine. The lift is the corresponding vertical component, which sustains the machine in the air.

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

To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.

To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.

To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.

To perform as a drag queen or drag king.

To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.

A confection; a comfit; a drug.

To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.

The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.

A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.

A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.

A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.

A force that moves something along

A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

The gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)

Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).

A process of linguistic change over a period of time

Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.

Something that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents

The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.

A general tendency to change (as of opinion);

A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.

General meaning or tenor;

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.

A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine;

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.

Be in motion due to some air or water current;

To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

Wander from a direct course or at random;

To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;

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

Vary or move from a fixed point or course;

To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

Live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely;

To fish with a dragnet.

Move in an unhurried fashion;

The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

Cause to be carried by a current;

Something that slows or delays progress;

Drive slowly and far afield for grazing;

Something tedious and boring;

Be subject to fluctuation;

Clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man);

Be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current;

A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke);

The act of dragging (pulling with force);

Pull, as against a resistance;

Draw slowly or heavily;

Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;

Move slowly and as if with great effort

To lag or linger behind;

Suck in or take (air);

Use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu;

Walk without lifting the feet

Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

Persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting;

Proceed for an extended period of time;