Sentence examples for drag meaning from inspiring English sources
The feathers create a drag, meaning the shuttlecock speeds up and slows down faster than, say, a tennis ball.
According to theory, the Busemann bi-plane, when travelling at supersonic speeds, should produce less drag meaning it should use less fuel.
Two of the main problems facing any supersonic aircraft are increased drag, meaning increased fuel consumption, and that famous "sonic boom", a loud gunshot-like noise that disturbed anyone unfortunate to be under the flight path.
That extra area dramatically increased drag, meaning that a pregnant dolphin gliding at a comfortable 1.7 meters per second met with the same water resistance as a nonpregnant dolphin going twice as fast.
And unipolar, the big stick that never ends -- rightly rejected by Cheney and smoothly abandoned by Chirac -- means "who does that self-righteous, moralizing big shot think he is, anyway?" STOCK AND DRAG All I wrote, in an aside about the origin of the sense of drag meaning "men wearing women's costumes," was that Nascar was "drawing millions to drag strips".
Diffeomorphism invariance means, informally, that one can take a solution of Einstein's equations and drag it (meaning the metric and the matter fields) around on the spacetime manifold and obtain a mathematically distinct but physically equivalent solution.
We all already know that the supermodel-skinny standards are a major part of what's dragging us, meaning females, down.
On iPad, the app is even better because it supports drag-and-drop – meaning you drag images from other apps to your collections.
The White House rejected a request from CNOOC for an expedited review of the deal, meaning things could drag on for months.
The verb comes from the German sleppen, adopted with that meaning in the Yiddish schlepn or schlep, meaning "to drag, haul, lug".
Even more impressively, those enslaved devices then start seeking out further devices to drag into the botnet, meaning that today, if you connect a vulnerable kettle to the internet, it will be hacked within an hour.
