Princeton's WordNet

1. slowdown, lag, retardation(noun)

   the act of slowing down or falling behind

2. interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag(noun)

   the time between one event, process, or period and another

   "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"

3. stave, lag(verb)

   one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

4. lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind(verb)

   hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

5. imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand(verb)

   lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

   "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

6. lag(verb)

   throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

7. lag(verb)

   cover with lagging to prevent heat loss

   "lag pipes"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. lag(verb)æg

   to not be as good as

   a study showing the country is lagging behind in education

Wiktionary

1. lag(Noun)

   A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.

2. lag(Noun)

   Delay; latency.

3. lag(Noun)

   a prisoner, a criminal.

4. lag(Noun)

   A minigame of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.

5. lag(Verb)

   to not keep up (the pace), to fall behind

6. lag(Verb)

   to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material

7. lag(Adjective)

   late

Webster Dictionary

1. Lag(adj)

   coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy

2. Lag(adj)

   last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end

3. Lag(adj)

   last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior

4. Lag(noun)

   one who lags; that which comes in last

5. Lag(noun)

   the fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class

6. Lag(noun)

   the amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing

7. Lag(noun)

   a stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine

8. Lag(noun)

   see Graylag

9. Lag(verb)

   to walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter

10. Lag(verb)

    to cause to lag; to slacken

11. Lag(verb)

    to cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4

12. Lag(noun)

    one transported for a crime

13. Lag(verb)

    to transport for crime

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. lag

   [MUD, IRC; very common] When used without qualification this is synonymous with netlag. Curiously, people will often complain “I'm really lagged” when in fact it is their server or network connection that is lagging.

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