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One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
Andrew Davies

Meaning of "drag in" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRAG IN

drag in play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRAG IN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drag in is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb drag in in English.

WHAT DOES DRAG IN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of drag in in the English dictionary

The definition of drag in in the dictionary is to introduce or mention with slight or no pretext.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DRAG IN

PRESENT

Present
I drag in
you drag in
he/she/it drags in
we drag in
you drag in
they drag in
Present continuous
I am dragging in
you are dragging in
he/she/it is dragging in
we are dragging in
you are dragging in
they are dragging in
Present perfect
I have dragged in
you have dragged in
he/she/it has dragged in
we have dragged in
you have dragged in
they have dragged in
Present perfect continuous
I have been dragging in
you have been dragging in
he/she/it has been dragging in
we have been dragging in
you have been dragging in
they have been dragging in
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I dragged in
you dragged in
he/she/it dragged in
we dragged in
you dragged in
they dragged in
Past continuous
I was dragging in
you were dragging in
he/she/it was dragging in
we were dragging in
you were dragging in
they were dragging in
Past perfect
I had dragged in
you had dragged in
he/she/it had dragged in
we had dragged in
you had dragged in
they had dragged in
Past perfect continuous
I had been dragging in
you had been dragging in
he/she/it had been dragging in
we had been dragging in
you had been dragging in
they had been dragging in
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will drag in
you will drag in
he/she/it will drag in
we will drag in
you will drag in
they will drag in
Future continuous
I will be dragging in
you will be dragging in
he/she/it will be dragging in
we will be dragging in
you will be dragging in
they will be dragging in
Future perfect
I will have dragged in
you will have dragged in
he/she/it will have dragged in
we will have dragged in
you will have dragged in
they will have dragged in
Future perfect continuous
I will have been dragging in
you will have been dragging in
he/she/it will have been dragging in
we will have been dragging in
you will have been dragging in
they will have been dragging in
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would drag in
you would drag in
he/she/it would drag in
we would drag in
you would drag in
they would drag in
Conditional continuous
I would be dragging in
you would be dragging in
he/she/it would be dragging in
we would be dragging in
you would be dragging in
they would be dragging in
Conditional perfect
I would have drag in
you would have drag in
he/she/it would have drag in
we would have drag in
you would have drag in
they would have drag in
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been dragging in
you would have been dragging in
he/she/it would have been dragging in
we would have been dragging in
you would have been dragging in
they would have been dragging in
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you drag in
we let´s drag in
you drag in
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to drag in
Past participle
dragged in
Present Participle
dragging in
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRAG IN

drag anchor
drag and drop
drag artist
drag coefficient
drag down
drag harrow
drag hunt
drag king
drag lift
drag link
drag one´s feet
drag out of
drag queen
drag race
drag racer
drag racing
drag sail
drag shoe
drag show
drag someone´s name in the mud

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRAG IN

all in
at home in
bog in
bring in
check in
come in
dig in
do in
fill in
get in
get stuck in
hang in
keep in
live in
log in
plug in
ring in
sign in
take part in
work in

Synonyms and antonyms of drag in in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «drag in» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRAG IN

Find out the translation of drag in to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of drag in from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drag in» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

arrastre en
570 millions of speakers

English

drag in
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

में खींचें
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اسحب في
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

перетащить в
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

arrasto em
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টেনে আনুন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

glisser dans
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Seret masuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ziehen Sie im
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ドラッグ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

드래그
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seret ing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kéo trong
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இழுக்கவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मध्ये ड्रॅग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sürükle
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

resistenza a
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przeciągnij w
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перетягнути в
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trageți în
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σύρετε το
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

drag in
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dra i
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dra i
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about drag in

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2 QUOTES WITH «DRAG IN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drag in.
1
Dominic Cooper
I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.
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Andrew Davies
One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRAG IN»

Discover the use of drag in in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drag in and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany
An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust
Katrin Sieg, 2002
2
Viscous Drag Reduction in Boundary Layers
As a general rule, the smoothness required to avoid roughness drag in a turbulent boundary layer is sufficient to also avoid undue problems in the transition area.2 Typically fouling- induced roughness severely impacts drag in hydrodynamic ...
Dennis M. Bushnell, 1990
3
Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming IX: Proceedings of the ...
... and Medicine in Swimming, University of Saint-Etienne, France, 21-23 June, 2002 Jean-Claude Chatard. Active Drag in Swimming Barry WILSON, Rhys THORP School of Physical Education, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Jean-Claude Chatard, 2003
4
Thermal Coulomb Drag in a Bi-layer Semiconductor System
The drag mediated by the Coulomb force, or the Coulomb drag, was first discussed by Pogrebinskii in 1977 [10] who calculated the drag in one semiconductor film of a semiconductor- insulator-semiconductor structure which was caused by ...
Florin Dacian Lung, 2008
5
Fish Locomotion
The results of dead-drag determinations ought to give a good indication of true swimming drag in these cases. Drag coefficients for forms such as the seahorse ( Hippocampus) and boxfish (Ostraciori) are several orders of magnitude greater ...
Robert William Blake, 1983
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Swimming Fastest
Kolmogorov and Duplishcheva (1992), however, reported that values for active drag were actually lower than values for passive drag in three of the four competitive strokes. The only exception was the breaststroke. These authors used a ...
Ernest W. Maglischo, 2003
7
Exercise and Sport Science
2- v [7] The interesting aspect of this approach is that it can be applied to measure active drag in all four competitive strokes, while the MAD system and indirect methods are applicable only to the front crawl. The approach yields only one drag ...
William E. Garrett, Donald T. Kirkendall, 2000
8
Artificial Intelligence for Games
... ignoring drag altogether for calculating firing solutions. Often, a drag-free implementation of ballistics is a perfectly acceptable approximation. Once again, the gradual move toward including drag in trajectory calculations is motivated by  ...
Ian Millington, John Funge, 2009
9
Progress In Astronautics and Aeronautics: Thrust and Drag: ...
... pressure ratio and reference inlet mass flow ratio), all of the forces acting on the full scale aircraft would be known (neglecting any auxiliary flows which are not simulated in the aero- reference model but which produce thrust or drag in the ...
Eugene E. Covert, 1985
10
Air and Water: The Biology and Physics of Life's Media
Now, if our flat plate is thin enough, it has effectively zero frontal area and therefore no pressure drag. In other words, all the drag on a flat plate is skin friction or viscous drag. In this situation we can define a drag coefficient average drag plate ...
Mark W. Denny, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRAG IN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drag in is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Nightclubs bring regular drag shows to Waco
Waco native and Salon DaDa owner Daniel Hollingsworth, 48, started performing drag in 1985. For the past three years, he has helped ... «Waco Tribune-Herald, Jul 15»
2
Cristiano Ronaldo appears in whacky Japanese commercial... again
... many of us wouldn't earn across five years, Cristiano Ronaldo has turned to Japanese TV to drag in a few extra bucks during the pre-season. «SBS - The World Game, Jul 15»
3
The Daily Hilario: Mini Messi, Preki, cricket
... baseball, though there's more "action" which is nice — but it did start to drag in the second half (especially with over an hour of rain delays). «We Ain't Got No History, Jul 15»
4
Summer Arctic chill to bring UK mountain snow and frost
With an area of low pressure to the east of the UK across Scandinavia, cool northerly winds will drag in air straight down from the Arctic. «The Weather Network, Jul 15»
5
Tour de France 2015: Eyewitness - stage 4
Raindrops fall as we walk to the top of a slight drag in the sector, close to its exit. A cloudburst: that really would make things treacherous. «Rouleur, Jul 15»
6
3 Chip Stocks That Could Be the Next Sector Victims
... their work indicates that further demand drag in wireless infrastructure and what they call the “broad-based” industrial markets are factoring ... «24/7 Wall St., Jul 15»
7
John Morgan says he told Alan Grayson he has "snowball's chance …
“I told him that I did not believe he had a snowball's chance in hell of winning the general election and he could also become a drag in the ... «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
8
Twelve Questions: Taiaroa Royal
I started performing drag in venues along K Rd then. 5. How was your drag persona created? When I was at the New Zealand School of Dance ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
9
Where to go for family fun in Macau
... The House of Dancing Water continue to drag in crowds at The Venetian Theatre and City of Dreams' Dancing Water Theatre, respectively. «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
10
Thai policeman describes finding dead British tourists as murder trial …
Their murders, just a few hundred yards from the main tourist drag in Koh Tao, sent shockwaves across the sleepy idyll in the Gulf of Thailand ... «Thanh Nien Daily, Jul 15»

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