Dragnet

Definition

drag /dræg/ v (-gg-) ၁။ ဆြဲသည္။ တရြတ္တိုက္ဆြဲသည္။ 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။ ေလးဖင့္သည္။ She always drags behind. ❍ She dragged herself out of bed, still half asleep. ၃။ အတင္းဆြဲေခၚသည္။ I could hardly drag the children away (from the party). ၄။ တရြတ္တိုက္ေနသည္။ Your coat's dragging in the mud. ၅။ ~ (on) ၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္၊ စိတ္မရွည္ဖြယ္ ရွည္လ်ားသည္၊ အခ်ိန္ဆြဲသည္။ The film dragged terribly. ❍ How much longer is this meeting going to drag on? ၆။ ျမစ္၊ အိုင္စသည္တြင္ ပိုက္၊ ခ်ိတ္ စသည္ျဖင့္ တိုက္၍ ဆြဲ၍ ရွာေဖြသည္။ They dragged the canal for the missing child. n ၁။ [sing] ~ on sb/sth ( infml ) အတားအဆီး။ ဆူးေျငာင့္ ခလုတ္။ She loves her family, but knows they're a drag on her career. ၂။ [sing] ( sl ) စိတ္ပ်က္စရာ။ ၿငီးေငြ႕စရာ။ Walking's a drag—let's go by car. ၃။ [C] ( sl ) ေဆးလိပ္ တစ္ဖြာ။ Can I have a drag of your cigarette? ၄။ [U] ( sl ) (ေယာက်္ားက) မိန္းမလိုဝတ္ျခင္း။ perform in drag. ၅။ [U] ( techn ) ပ်ံသန္းေနေသာ ေလယာဥ္ကို ေလ၏တံု႔ျပန္ တြန္းကန္မႈ။ Compare LIFT n ၃ ❏ drag sb down [ PHRV ] အားေလ်ာ့ေစသည္။ စိတ္ဓာတ္က် ေစသည္။ Hot weather always drags me down. ❏ drag sb/sth down (to sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အဆင့္ အတန္း၊ တန္ဖိုးနိမ့္က်ေစသည္။ 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 ] အခ်ိန္ဆြဲသည္။ ေလးကန္ ဖင့္ႏႊဲသည္။ I want to sell the house, but my husband is dragging his feet. ❏ drag sth in/into sth [ PHRV ] မဆိုင္ဘဲ ထည့္ေျပာသည္၊ ဝင္ေျပာသည္။ Must you drag politics into everything? ❏ drag sth out [ PHRV ] အခ်ိန္ဆြဲသည္။ ေလရွည္သည္။ Let's not drag out this discussion; we need to reach a decision. ❏ drag sth out (of sb) [ PHRV ] အတင္းအစ္ေအာက္ထုတ္ သည္၊ ညႇစ္ထုတ္သည္။ drag a confession/concession out of sb. ❏ drag sth up [ PHRV ] သူတစ္ပါးမသိေစလိုသည့္ ကိစၥကို စကားဝိုင္းတြင္ တမင္ေဖာ္ထုတ္ေျပာသည္။ She dragged up that incident just to embarrass me.

Examples

1. [drag something down/along/through something] : She dragged her suitcase down the path.
2. [drag something/someone to/into/onto something] : He jumped into the river and dragged her to safety.
3. The bird walked slowly
4. dragging one wing along.
5. I scarcely had time to drag a comb through my hair.
6. [drag someone along/to/into something] : Xavier grabbed his arm and dragged him over to the window.
7. [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.
8. You drag me away from my meeting just to tell me this!
9. [drag yourself away/up/down etc] : If you can manage to drag yourself away from the TV you can help.
10. [drag along/in/on] : I heard a chain dragging along the ground.
11. The first hour of the film really dragged.
12. Drag the file into a folder.
13. Police are dragging the river near where he was last seen.