What does lag mean?
Definitions for lag
læglag
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Princeton's WordNet
slowdown, lag, retardationnoun
the act of slowing down or falling behind
interim, meantime, meanwhile, lagnoun
the time between one event, process, or period and another
"meanwhile the socialists are running the government"
stave, lagverb
one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behindverb
hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remandverb
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"
lagverb
throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
lagverb
cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
"lag pipes"
Wiktionary
lagnoun
A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
lagnoun
Delay; latency.
lagnoun
a prisoner, a criminal.
lagnoun
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.
lagverb
to not keep up (the pace), to fall behind
lagverb
to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material
lagadjective
late
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
LAGadjective
Etymology: læng , Saxon, long; lagg, Swedish, the end.
I could be well content
To entertain the lag end of my life
With quiet hours. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.The slowest footed who come lag, supply the show of a reer-ward. Richard Carew, Survey.
I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines
Lag of a brother. William Shakespeare, King Lear.He, poor man, by your first order died,
And that a winged Mercury did bear;
Some tardy cripple had the countermand,
That came too lag to see him buried. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.We know your thoughts of us, that laymen are
Lag souls, and rubbish of remaining clay, Which heav’n, grown weary of more perfect work,
Set upright with a little puff of breath,
And bid us pass for men. John Dryden, Don Sebastian.Pack to their old play-fellows; there I take
They may, cum privilegio, wear away
The lag end of their lewdness, and be laugh’d at. William Shakespeare.Lagnoun
The rest of your foes, O gods, the senators of Athens, together with the common lag of people, what is amiss in them, make suitable for destruction. William Shakespeare, Tim. of Athens.
The last, the lag of all the race. John Dryden, Virg. Æneis.
What makes my ram the lag of all the flock. Alexander Pope.
To Lagverb
She pass’d, with fear and fury wild;
The nurse went lagging after with the child. Dryden.The remnant of his days he safely past,
Nor found they lagg’d too slow, nor flow’d too fast. Matthew Prior.Behind her far away a dwarf did lag. Fairy Queen.
I shall not lag behind, nor err
The way, thou leading. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. x.The knight himself did after ride,
Leading Crowdero by his side,
And tow’d him, if he lagg’d behind,
Like boat against the tide and wind. Hud. p. i. c. 3.If he finds a fairy lag in light,
He drives the wretch before, and lashes into night. Dryd.She hourly press’d for something new;
Ideas came into her mind
So fast, his lessons lagg’d behind. Jonathan Swift.
ChatGPT
lag
Lag generally refers to a delay or latency in response time. In various fields such as technology, economics and physics, it can refer to the period of time between one event and another or between cause and effect. The specific interpretation of 'lag' may vary depending on its application or context.
Webster Dictionary
Lagadjective
coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy
Lagadjective
last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end
Lagadjective
last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior
Lagnoun
one who lags; that which comes in last
Lagnoun
the fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class
Lagnoun
the amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing
Lagnoun
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
Lagnoun
see Graylag
Lagverb
to walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter
Lagverb
to cause to lag; to slacken
Lagverb
to cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4
Lagnoun
one transported for a crime
Lagverb
to transport for crime
Etymology: [Of Celtic origin: cf. Gael. & Ir. lagweak, feeble, faint, W. llag, llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; prob. akin to E. lax, languid.]
Wikidata
Lag
Lag is a common word meaning to fail to keep up or to fall behind. In real-time applications, the term is used when the application fails to respond in a timely fashion to inputs. Lag is also often used in reference to video games to describe the delay between an action by a player and the reaction of the game. In distributed applications, lag is often caused by communication latency, which is the time taken for a sent packet of data to be received at the other end. It includes the time to encode the packet for transmission and transmit it, the time for that data to traverse the network equipment between the nodes, and the time to receive and decode the data. This is also known as "one-way latency". A minimum bound on latency is determined by the distance between communicating devices and the speed at which the signal propagates in the circuits. Actual latency is often much higher because of packet processing in networking equipment, and other traffic. The term lag is often also used as a synonym for communication latency. This can be misleading because there can be other causes for the symptom.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Lag
lag, adj. slack: sluggish: coming behind.—n. he who, or that which, comes behind: the fag-end: (slang) an old convict.—v.i. to move or walk slowly: to loiter.—v.t. (slang) to commit to justice:—pr.p. lag′ging; pa.p. lagged.—adj. Lag′-bell′ied, having a drooping belly.—n. Lag′-end (Shak.), the last or long-delayed end.—adj. Lag′gard, lagging: slow: backward.—ns. Lag′gard, Lag′ger, one who lags behind: a loiterer: an idler.—adv. Lag′gingly, in a lagging manner. [Celt., as W. llag, loose, Gael. lag, feeble; cf. L. laxus, loose.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lag in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lag in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of lag in a Sentence
[ Drug companies ] really utilize the scientific literature, and most of the literature is coming out of big academic labs, if academic labs are shut down for months and research continuities are disrupted, it's going to take several more months to gain momentum again and people won't be producing results for some time... That could really put a lag on the drug discovery pipeline that we have going with industry.
Keep your diet healthy; and don’t resort to soda and sugary foods because that's going to worsen your jet lag symptoms.
Nokia is going back to the future! The recent profit warning, dividend cut and 5G lag have rattled the company, huawei and Ericsson have arguably inched ahead on R&D, and Nokia is feeling the business pressure. Nokia is turning to the old.
New York is a world-class location. But our airports are outdated and lag behind our competitors, you look at any report and it will talk about how New York airports sorely lag in terms of development.
The non immediacy of it is arguably a benefit, sally Satel don’t want people acting impulsively. That’s why building in a time lag could be advantageous and allay anxiety.
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- تأخرArabic
- zpožděníCzech
- forsinkelseDanish
- zurückbleiben, zurückfallenGerman
- χρονοτριβή, καθυστέρηση, χρονοτριβώ, καθυστερώGreek
- lagEsperanto
- retrasoSpanish
- تاخیرPersian
- jäädä jälkeenFinnish
- être en retard, rester en arrièreFrench
- lagIrish
- अंतरालHindi
- lemaradásHungarian
- ուշացումArmenian
- ketinggalanIndonesian
- töf, lagg, hökt, seinkunIcelandic
- rimanere indietroItalian
- בפיגורHebrew
- 立ち遅れるJapanese
- ಮಂದಗತಿKannada
- 지연Korean
- lagLatin
- akutō, tonanawe, takamuriMāori
- vertragingDutch
- forsinkelse, laggNorwegian
- opóźnieniePolish
- atrasoPortuguese
- lagRomanian
- опоздать, отстать, отставать, опаздыватьRussian
- eftersläpningSwedish
- பின்னடைவுTamil
- ఆలస్యంTelugu
- ความล่าช้าThai
- gecikmeTurkish
- відставанняUkrainian
- رکھوUrdu
- lỗiVietnamese
- אָפּשטייYiddish
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