Some articles on drag:
Beetle Restoration - Motorsport - Drag Racing
... The Beetle is widely used in drag racing its rearward (RR layout) weight distribution keeps the weight over the rear wheels, maximizing grip off the starting line ... The car's weight is reduced for a full competition drag Beetle, further improving the grip and also the power-to-weight ratio ...
... The Beetle is widely used in drag racing its rearward (RR layout) weight distribution keeps the weight over the rear wheels, maximizing grip off the starting line ... The car's weight is reduced for a full competition drag Beetle, further improving the grip and also the power-to-weight ratio ...
The Way Out (Drag Album) - Background
... As Middleton was allowed time to devote to his own side project Drag, he and McElligott decided to fill out Drag to a full band lineup ... Matt Murphy and fellow Powderfinger member John Collins on bass, Drag began performing around Brisbane and its surrounding areas ... Middleton had intended recording some of the Drag songs in the hiatus time, but when the opportunity was offered by Paul Piticco, Powderfinger's manager and founder of Dew Process to record on Dew Process ...
... As Middleton was allowed time to devote to his own side project Drag, he and McElligott decided to fill out Drag to a full band lineup ... Matt Murphy and fellow Powderfinger member John Collins on bass, Drag began performing around Brisbane and its surrounding areas ... Middleton had intended recording some of the Drag songs in the hiatus time, but when the opportunity was offered by Paul Piticco, Powderfinger's manager and founder of Dew Process to record on Dew Process ...
Lake Geneva Raceway - History - Drag Strip
... The track opened on July 3, 1963 as a drag strip ... The first drag race was won by Fox ... The final drag race was held in 1977, and was won by Fritz Barels ...
... The track opened on July 3, 1963 as a drag strip ... The first drag race was won by Fox ... The final drag race was held in 1977, and was won by Fritz Barels ...
Drag, Norway
... Drag (Lule Sami Ájluokta and Northern Sami Áiluokta) is a village in the municipality of Tysfjord in Nordland county, Norway ... Drag is located along Norwegian National Road 827 runs through Drag to a ferry port that connects to the village of Kjøpsvik across the fjord ... Árran, the national Lule Sami Center is located in Drag ...
... Drag (Lule Sami Ájluokta and Northern Sami Áiluokta) is a village in the municipality of Tysfjord in Nordland county, Norway ... Drag is located along Norwegian National Road 827 runs through Drag to a ferry port that connects to the village of Kjøpsvik across the fjord ... Árran, the national Lule Sami Center is located in Drag ...
Aerodynamic Drag
... In aerodynamics, aerodynamic drag is the fluid drag force that acts on any moving solid body in the direction of the fluid freestream flow ... From the body's perspective (near-field approach), the drag comes from forces due to pressure distributions over the body surface, symbolized, and forces due to skin friction, which is a ... Alternatively, calculated from the flowfield perspective (far-field approach), the drag force comes from three natural phenomena shock waves, vortex sheet, and viscosity ...
... In aerodynamics, aerodynamic drag is the fluid drag force that acts on any moving solid body in the direction of the fluid freestream flow ... From the body's perspective (near-field approach), the drag comes from forces due to pressure distributions over the body surface, symbolized, and forces due to skin friction, which is a ... Alternatively, calculated from the flowfield perspective (far-field approach), the drag force comes from three natural phenomena shock waves, vortex sheet, and viscosity ...
More definitions of "drag":
- (verb): Use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu.
Example: "Drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen"
- (verb): Pull, as against a resistance.
Example: "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
- (verb): Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.
Example: "Don't drag me into this business"
Synonyms: embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag in
- (verb): To lag or linger behind.
Synonyms: trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind
- (verb): Walk without lifting the feet.
Synonyms: scuff
- (noun): A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke).
Example: "He took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"
Synonyms: puff, pull
- (verb): Move slowly and as if with great effort.
- (verb): Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost.
Synonyms: dredge
- (noun): The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.
Synonyms: retarding force
- (noun): Something tedious and boring.
Example: "Peeling potatoes is a drag"
- (verb): Persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting.
Example: "He dragged me away from the television set"
- (noun): The act of dragging (pulling with force).
Example: "The drag up the hill exhausted him"
- (noun): Something that slows or delays progress.
Example: "Taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"
Famous quotes containing the word drag:
“Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. Nothing is more real than nothing. They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Dying smokers sense
Walking towards them through some dappled park
As if on water that unfocused she
No match lit up, nor drag ever brought near....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)