Drag vs Trot - What's the difference?
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To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
To move slowly.
To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
* Byron
* Gay
To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
* Dryden
To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
* Russell
(computing) To move (an item) on the computer display by means of a mouse or other input device.
To inadvertently rub or scrape on a surface.
To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
(soccer) To hit or kick off target.
* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355]
To fish with a dragnet.
To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
(figurative) To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
* Tennyson
(uncountable) Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it.
(countable, foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
(countable) A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
(countable, informal) A puff on a cigarette or joint.
(countable, slang) Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
* J. D. Forbes
(countable, slang) Someone or something that is disappointing.
(countable, slang) Horse-drawn wagon or buggy.
(countable, slang) Street, as in 'main drag'.
(countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents.
(countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
(metallurgy) The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
(masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
(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.
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.
A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
* Hazlitt
(uncountable, slang) Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
(uncountable, slang) Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
(archaic, disparaging) An ugly old woman, a hag.“
(chiefly, of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
* 2000 , Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility ,
* 2008 , Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse , Elsevier,
* 2009 , Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show ,
A gait of a person faster than a walk.
A toddler.
* 1855 , '', 1869, ''The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray'', Volume V: ''The Newcomes, Volume I ,
(obsolete) A young animal.
(dance) A moderately rapid dance.
(mildly disparaging)
(Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
A run of luck or fortune.
* 1994 , Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing ,
* 2004 , John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture , 2nd Edition,
To walk rapidly.
(of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
Drag is a related term of trot.
As nouns the difference between drag and trot
is that drag is (uncountable) resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it or drag can be (uncountable|slang) women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment while trot is trotskyist.As a verb drag
is to pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.drag
English
(wikipedia drag)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
James R. Carter
Flowers and Ribbons of Ice, passage=Dragging yourself out of a warm bed in the early hours of a wintry morning to go for a hike in the woods: It’s not an easy thing for some to do, but the visual treasures that await could be well worth the effort. If the weather conditions and the local flora are just right, you might come across fleeting, delicate frozen formations sprouting from certain plant stems, literally a garden of ice.}}
- The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.
- Long, open panegyric drags at best.
- have dragged a lingering life
- A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.
- Arsenal were struggling for any sort of rhythm and Aaron Lennon dragged an effort inches wide as Tottenham pressed for a second.
- while I dragged my brains for such a song
Derived terms
* drag one's feet * dragline * what the cat dragged inNoun
- When designing cars, manufacturers have to take drag into consideration.
- Travelling to work in the rush hour is a real drag .
- My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag .
- (Thackeray)
- to run a drag
- a stone drag
- Had a drag in his walk.
Derived terms
* drag race * main dragEtymology 2
Possibly from (etyl) Douglas Harper,"camp (n.)"in Online Etymology Dictionary , 2001ff
Noun
(-)- He performed in drag .
- corporate drag
Derived terms
* drag king * drag queen * drag showReferences
*Flight, 1913, p. 126] attributing to [[w:Archibald Low, Archibald Low]*
trot
English
(wikipedia trot)Noun
(en noun)Trot”, entry in 2008 , Anatolij Simonovi? Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction , page 208.
page 14,
- Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot , pace, and gallop.
page 154,
- The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot'.The slow '''trot''' is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the '''trot''' of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended ' trot .
page 65,
- To assume the correct position for the posting trot', first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting '''trot at six miles an hour. ''Do not post.
page 123,
- but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.
- He?s had a good trot , but his luck will end soon.
page 34,
- It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.
page 21,
- Should he or she be having a bad trot , the exchange rate will be higher than normal.
