Drag vs Work - 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.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, 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.
Employment.
#Labour, occupation, job.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand / That you yet know not of.
#*Bible, 2 (w) xxxi. 21
#*:In every work that he beganhe did it with all his heart, and prospered.
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, title= #The place where one is employed.
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Effort.
#Effort expended on a particular task.
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##Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
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#(lb) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
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, title= #(lb) A nonthermal First Law energy in transit between one form or repository and another. Also, a means of accomplishing such transit.
Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
(lb) Product; the result of effort.
# The result of a particular manner of production.
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# Something produced using the specified material or tool.
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#(lb) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:to leave no rubs or blotches in the work
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:The work some praise, / And some the architect.
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#*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work , a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
#(lb) A fortification.
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The staging of events to appear as real.
(lb) Ore before it is dressed.
:(Raymond)
To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
# Followed by in'' (or ''at , etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
# Followed by as . Said of one's job title
#* , chapter=17
, title= # Followed by for . Said of a company or individual who employs.
# Followed by with . General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
To effect by gradual degrees.
* Addison
To embroider with thread.
To set into action.
To cause to ferment.
To ferment.
* Francis Bacon
To exhaust, by working.
To shape, form, or improve a material.
To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
To provoke or excite; to influence.
To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
To cause to work.
To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (figuratively) To influence.
To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
To move in an agitated manner.
* Addison
To behave in a certain way when handled;
(transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
* {{quote-book, passage=So sad it seemed, and its cheek-bones gleamed, and its fingers flicked the shore; / And it lapped and lay in a weary way, and its hands met to implore; / That I gently said: “Poor, restless dead, I would never work you woe; / Though the wrong you rue you can ne’er undo, I forgave you long ago.”
, author=Robert W. Service
, title=(Ballads of a Cheechako), chapter=(The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike), year=1909}}
(obsolete) To hurt; to ache.
* 1485 , Sir (Thomas Malory), ''(w, Le Morte d'Arthur), Book XXI:
In transitive terms the difference between drag and work
is that drag is to pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty while work is to cause to work.In intransitive terms the difference between drag and work
is that drag is to move slowly while work is to behave in a certain way when handled.In countable terms the difference between drag and work
is that drag is the scent-path left by dragging a fox, for training hounds to follow scents while work is a fortification.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]*
work
English
(wikipedia work)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) worc, weorc, . English cognates include bulwark, energy, erg, georgic, liturgy, metallurgy, organ, surgeon, wright.Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo , meaning "vortex", and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work .}}
See http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055.
Synonyms
* (employment) See also * (productive activity) See alsoDerived terms
* artwork * at work * body of work * bodywork * breastwork * bridgework * busy work * casework * clockwork * derivative work * dirty work * dreamwork * earthwork * field work, fieldwork * finger work * firework * fretwork * groundwork * guesswork * hard work * handiwork * homework * housework * ironwork * leg work, legwork * lifework * masterwork * needlework * openwork * overwork * paintwork * paperwork * patchwork * piece of work * piecework * public works * reference work * road work, roadwork * schoolwork * shift work, shiftwork * spadework * teamwork * waterworks * waxwork * wickerwork * woodwork * work ethic * work of art * worklist * workly * workout * workplace * workroom * workshop * workstation * workstead * workupSee also
* -ingReferences
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- I work''' in a national park; she '''works''' in the human resources department; he mostly '''works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
- I work as a cleaner.
- she works''' for Microsoft; he '''works for the president
- I work''' closely with my Canadian counterparts; you '''work''' with computers; she '''works with the homeless people from the suburbs
- he worked''' his way through the crowd; the dye '''worked''' its way through; using some tweezers, she '''worked the bee sting out of her hand
- So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains / Of rushing torrents and descending rains, / Works itself clear, and as it runs, refines, / Till by degrees the floating mirror shines.
- the working of beer when the barm is put in
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about
- A ship works in a heavy sea.
- confused with working sands and rolling waves
- ‘I wolde hit were so,’ seyde the Kynge, ‘but I may nat stonde, my hede worchys so—’