dragnet

/ˈdraɡnɛt/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈdraɡnɛt/

dragnet

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Clear final sound

drag - net -> dragnet

Myanmar meaning

(n) ဆွဲပိုက်။အောက်ခြေဆွဲပိုက်ကွန်။

Full entry

drag /dræg/ v (-gg-)

၁။ ဆွဲသည်။ တရွတ်တိုက်ဆွဲသည်။
I heard the sound of something being dragged across the floor. ❍ They dragged him from his bed. ❍ We dragged the fallen tree clear of the road. ❍ dragging the bundle along. ❍ pull v
၂။ လေးဖင့်သည်။
She always drags behind. ❍ She dragged herself out of bed, still half asleep.
၃။ အတင်းဆွဲခေါ်သည်။
I could hardly drag the children away (from the party).
၄။ တရွတ်တိုက်နေသည်။
Your coat's dragging in the mud.
၅။ ~ (on) ငြီးငွေ့ဖွယ်၊ စိတ်မရှည်ဖွယ် ရှည်လျားသည်၊ အချိန်ဆွဲသည်။
The film dragged terribly. ❍ How much longer is this meeting going to drag on?
၆။ မြစ်၊ အိုင်စသည်တွင် ပိုက်၊ ချိတ် စသည်ဖြင့် တိုက်၍ ဆွဲ၍ ရှာဖွေသည်။ They dragged the canal for the missing child.
n ၁။ [sing] ~ on sb/sth (infml ) အတားအဆီး။ ဆူးငြောင့် ခလုတ်။ She loves her family, but knows they're a drag on her career.
၂။ [sing] (sl ) စိတ်ပျက်စရာ။ ငြီးငွေ့စရာ။ Walking's a drag—let's go by car.
၃။ [C] (sl ) ဆေးလိပ် တစ်ဖွာ။ Can I have a drag of your cigarette?
၄။ [U] (sl ) (ယောကျ်ားက) မိန်းမလိုဝတ်ခြင်း။ perform in drag.
၅။ [U] (techn ) ပျံသန်းနေသော လေယာဉ်ကို လေ၏တုံ့ပြန် တွန်းကန်မှု။ Compare LIFT n ၃
❏ drag sb down [PHRV ] အားလျော့စေသည်။ စိတ်ဓာတ်ကျ စေသည်။ Hot weather always drags me down.
❏ drag sb/sth down (to sth) [PHRV ] (infml ) အဆင့် အတန်း၊ တန်ဖိုးနိမ့်ကျစေသည်။ I'm afraid the children will all be dragged down to his level. ❍ Wall Street's uncertainty dragged shares down today.
❏ drag one's feet/heels [IDM ] အချိန်ဆွဲသည်။ လေးကန် ဖင့်နွှဲသည်။ I want to sell the house, but my husband is dragging his feet.
❏ drag sth in/into sth [PHRV ] မဆိုင်ဘဲ ထည့်ပြောသည်၊ ဝင်ပြောသည်။ Must you drag politics into everything?
❏ drag sth out [PHRV ] အချိန်ဆွဲသည်။ လေရှည်သည်။ Let's not drag out this discussion; we need to reach a decision.
❏ drag sth out (of sb) [PHRV ] အတင်းအစ်အောက်ထုတ် သည်၊ ညှစ်ထုတ်သည်။ drag a confession/concession out of sb.
❏ drag sth up [PHRV ] သူတစ်ပါးမသိစေလိုသည့် ကိစ္စကို စကားဝိုင်းတွင် တမင်ဖော်ထုတ်ပြောသည်။ She dragged up that incident just to embarrass me.

More examples

[drag something down/along/through something] : She dragged her suitcase down the path.
[drag something/someone to/into/onto something] : He jumped into the river and dragged her to safety.
The bird walked slowly, dragging one wing along.
I scarcely had time to drag a comb through my hair.
[drag someone along/to/into something] : Xavier grabbed his arm and dragged him over to the window.
[drag someone out of/away from/off something] : I’m sorry to call so early – I hope I didn’t drag you out of bed.
You drag me away from my meeting just to tell me this!
[drag yourself away/up/down etc] : If you can manage to drag yourself away from the TV you can help.
[drag along/in/on] : I heard a chain dragging along the ground.
The first hour of the film really dragged.
Drag the file into a folder.
Police are dragging the river near where he was last seen.

Synonyms

haul, pull, draw, heave, lug, tow, yank, a bit much, annoyance, bad situation, be delayed, be quiescent, bore, boresome, boring, bother, breathing, burden, characterless, crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, delay, disagreeable, dragger, draggle, drear, effort, encounter difficulty, encumbrance, enervative, graft, grind, hale, hang, hang-up, hindrance, ho hum, ho-hum, impediment, inch, inhalation, lag, lag behind, limp along, linger, loiter, magnetize, mark time, move, nowhere, nuisance, pain, pest, pill, poke, procrastinate, put off, sag, schlepp, shamble, shuffle, slog, slow down, smoke, stagnate, straggle, strain, struggle, sway, tarry, tiresome, trail, trail behind, traipse, transport, trouble, truck, tug, uncool, unvaried, weariful, well-worn, yawner

Antonyms

advance, aid, assistance, comfort, complete, delight, finish, fly, go, good health, happiness, hasten, help, hurry, joy, leave, pleasure, push, remain, repel, repulse, run, rush, speed, turn off