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"DRAGS" is a plural of: drag. |
Date "DRAGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Steel bars with a hook at one end and prongs at the other, which are inserted in the drawbar at the rear of the tub ascending an incline so asto prevent it running back. (references) |
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Crosswords: DRAGS |
| English words defined with "DRAGS": dragger ♦ puller ♦ The anchor comes home, tugger. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DRAGS": Alexandrines ♦ Calidore, CAN DOFFER, can pusher, carbide miner, CHRISTMAS-TREE FARM WORKER, core mounter, core setter ♦ feeder breaker, finish molder, flask fitter ♦ Holme mud sampler ♦ laborer, marine terminal, LINES TENDER ♦ MELT-HOUSE DRAG OPERATOR, MOLD CLOSER, mold finisher ♦ SCRAPER-LOADER OPERATOR, SKIMMER, REVERBERATORY, slusher operator, sophistry, spreader box operator, STONE-SPREADER OPERATOR ♦ WET-AND-DRY-SUGAR-BIN OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Even when I'm a bossy, whiny pain-in-the-ass who drags you to apartments you can't afford and basically makes your life a living hell? (Grapevine; writing credit: David Frankel) Drags them down to the bottomless pit that flameth forever. (A Day in Summer; writing credit: J.L. Carr; Alan Plater) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Atlanta policeman drags African American high school student Taylor Washington to paddy wagon during demonstration against restaurant segregation, Atlanta, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Horace | Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. |
Karl Marx | All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. |
Plutarch | Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. |
Seneca | Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He drags it along, and yields to it. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She drags light at first. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words. His bad opponent's "facts" he sweeps away, And drags his sophistry to light of day; Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort To falsehood of so desperate a sort. Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast, He lies most lightly who the least is pressed. Polydore Smith |
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| "DRAGS" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 86.15% of the time. "DRAGS" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 86.15% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Noun (plural) | 13.85% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 65 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "DRAGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | schleppt (hauls, tows). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | agsdray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DRAGS": dragster, dragsters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DRAGS": outdrags. (additional references) | |
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"DRAGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dags, darag, Daragh, dgag, dnag, dorigish, draas, draga, drage, Drages, drago, Dragos, Dragoshi, drang, drass, drats, draug, Dravs, dreugs, drgw, drigg, drigs, drogs, druage, druges, duags, fraggs, frags, rdas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DRAGS" (pronounced dra"gz) |
| 4 | -r a" g z | brags, rags. |
| 3 | -a" g z | bags, fags, flags, gags, jags, lags, mags, nags, sags, scags, snags, tags, wags, zags. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: grads. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-r-s" | |
-1 letter: dags, drag, gads, gars, grad, rads, rags, sard. | |
-2 letters: ads, ars, dag, gad, gar, gas, rad, rag, ras, sad, sag. | |
-3 letters: ad, ag, ar, as. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-r-s" | |
+1 letter: grades, gradus, grands, guards. | |
+2 letters: badgers, cadgers, daggers, dangers, darings, desugar, dishrag, dogears, dragees, dragons, dustrag, gadders, ganders, gardens, graders, gradins, grasped, grassed, greased, guisard, regards, saggard, smaragd, sparged, sugared. | |
+3 letters: abridges, aggrades, brigades, brigands, cardings, cordages, damagers, danglers, darlings, darnings, degasser, degrades, degrease, deraigns, deranges, desugars, diagrams, digraphs, dirtbags, disagree, disgrace, dishrags, dogcarts, dowagers, draggers, draggles, dragnets, dragoons, dragster, draughts, drawings, drayages, dressage, dustrags, gabbards, gadroons, garlands, gizzards, glanders, goldarns, goliards, gormands, gradates, gradines, graduals, graduses, grandads, grandams, grandees, grandest, grandmas, grandpas, grandsir, grandson, gravidas, grenades, guarders, guisards, gurnards, haggards, hagrides, laggards, misgrade, niggards, outdrags, pagurids, podagras, postgrad, presaged, ragweeds, readings, regrades, restaged, saggards, saggared, saggered, scragged, sluggard, smaragde, smaragds, staggard, subgrade, swarding, unguards, upgrades, wordages, yardages. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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