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Definition of 'lag'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) lag
to fail to maintain a desired pace or speed:
to lag behind in production.

2.  lag
to linger; delay.

3.  lag
to decrease gradually; flag:
Interest lagged as the meeting went on.

4.  lag
to throw one's shooting marble toward a line on the ground so as to determine the order of play.

5.  lag
(in billiards and pool)

6. (v.t.) lag
to fail to keep up with:
The industry still lags the national economy.

7. (n.) lag
a lagging or falling behind; retardation.

8.  lag
a person who lags behind.

9.  lag
an interval of time:
a lag of ten minutes.

10.  lag
Mech. the amount of retardation of some motion.

11.  lag
the act of lagging in marbles or billiards.

12. (v.t.) lag
to imprison or transport for crime.

13. (n.) lag
a convict or ex-convict.

14.  lag
a period or term of penal servitude.

15. (n.) lag
one of the staves or strips that form the periphery of a wooden drum, the casing of a steam cylinder, or the like.

16. (v.t.) lag
to cover or provide with lags.

Etymology: (1665–75; prob. < Scand)

Definition of 'lag'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) slowdown, lag, retardation
the act of slowing down or falling behind

2. (noun) interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag
the time between one event, process, or period and another
"meanwhile the socialists are running the government"

3. (verb) stave, lag
one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

4. (verb) lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind
hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

5. (verb) imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
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. (verb) lag
throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

7. (verb) lag
cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
"lag pipes"

Definition of 'lag'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) lag
to not be as good as
a study showing the country is lagging behind in education

Definition of 'lag'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) lag
coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy

2. (adj) lag
last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end

3. (adj) lag
last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior

4. (noun) lag
one who lags; that which comes in last

5. (noun) lag
the fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class

6. (noun) lag
the amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing

7. (noun) lag
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. (noun) lag
see Graylag

9. (noun) lag
one transported for a crime

10. (verb) lag
to walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter

11. (verb) lag
to cause to lag; to slacken

12. (verb) lag
to cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4

13. (verb) lag
to transport for crime

Definitions of 'lag'

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.

Translation of 'lag'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (often with behind) to move too slowly and become left behind We waited for the smaller children, who were lagging behind the rest.
Afrikaans: uitsak	Arabic: يَتَلَكَّأ، يَتَباطَأ	Bulgarian: изоставам
Brazilian: atrasar-se	Czech: loudat se vzadu	German: zurückbleiben
Danish: komme bagefter; sakke bag	Greek: μένω πίσω, καθυστερώ	Spanish: retrasarse, quedarse atrá
Estonian: lonkima, maha jääma	Farsi: عقب ماندن	Finnish: jäädä jälkeen
French: traîner derrière	Hebrew: לְפַגֵר	Hindi: पिछड़ना
Croatian: zaostajati	Hungarian: elmarad(ozik)	Indonesian: tertinggal
Icelandic: dragast afturúr	Italian: restare indietro	Japanese: 遅れる
Korean: 처지다, 뒤떨어지다	Lithuanian: atsilikti, vilktis	Latvian: atpalikt; kavēties
Malay: bergerak perlahan	Dutch: achterblijven	Norwegian: somle, ligge etter, sakke
Polish: wlec się, odstawać	Persian: عقب ماندن	Pashto: ورسته پاتى كيدل
Portuguese: atrasar-se	Romanian: a rămâne în urmă	Russian: отставать
Slovak: zaostávať	Slovenian: zaostati	Serbian: zaostajati
Swedish: bli (komma, ligga, sacka)	Thai: ล่าช้า	Turkish: geri kalmak
Taiwanese: （因移動緩慢而）落後	Ukrainian: відставати; плентатися	Urdu: پیچھے رہ جانا
Vietnamese: tụt lại sau	Chinese: （走得极慢而）落后
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