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Lag   /læg/   Listen
noun
Lag  n.  
1.
One who lags; that which comes in last. (Obs.) "The lag of all the flock."
2.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. "The common lag of people."
3.
The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
4.
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.
5.
(Zool.) See Graylag.
6.
The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in an alternating circuit behind the impressed electro-motive force which produced it.
Lag of the tide, the interval by which the time of high water falls behind the mean time, in the first and third quarters of the moon; opposed to priming of the tide, or the acceleration of the time of high water, in the second and fourth quarters; depending on the relative positions of the sun and moon.
Lag screw, an iron bolt with a square head, a sharp-edged thread, and a sharp point, adapted for screwing into wood; a screw for fastening lags.


Lag  n.  One transported for a crime. (Slang, Eng.)


verb
Lag  v. t.  
1.
To cause to lag; to slacken. (Obs.) "To lag his flight."
2.
(Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.


Lag  v. t.  To transport for crime. (Slang, Eng.) "She lags us if we poach."


Lag  v. i.  (past & past part. lagged; pres. part. lagging)  To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. "I shall not lag behind."
Synonyms: To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.


adjective
Lag  adj.  
1.
Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. (Obs.) "Came too lag to see him buried."
2.
Last; long-delayed; obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. "The lag end of my life."
3.
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. (Obs.) "Lag souls."





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"Lag" Quotes from Famous Books



... speeches hobble vilely How "Hear him" bursts from brother Hiley! When his faltering periods lag Hark to ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... disappeared, having been used up, no doubt, as material for the neighbouring buildings. There was, however, at Logierait, a Royal Castle, from which the place itself and the large adjacent parish take their name—Lag-an-raith, the hollow of the Castle,—while the neighbouring small hamlet and railway station on the other side of the Tummel are called Balla-na-luig—the town of the hollow. The Castle stood on a high knoll overlooking the church ...
— Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 • Dorothy Wordsworth
... assessment: Vietnam is putting considerable effort into modernization and expansion of its telecommunication system, but its performance continues to lag behind that of its ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... who art the leader of the flock? Thou art not wont thus to lag behind. Thou hast always been the first to run to the pastures and streams in the morning, and the first to come back to the fold when evening fell; and now thou art last of all. Perhaps thou art troubled about thy master's ...
— Myths That Every Child Should Know - A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People • Various
... it: and therefore am not apt to say much of that kind. The sentence that I pass upon myself is more severe than that of a judge, who only considers the common obligation; but my conscience looks upon it with a more severe and penetrating eye. I lag in those duties to which I should be compelled if I did ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne


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