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Lag

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Noun

1. lag, retardation, slowdown

the act of slowing down or falling behind

2. interim, lag, meantime, meanwhile

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

Example Sentences:
'meanwhile the socialists are running the government'

3. lag, stave

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

Verb

4. dawdle, fall back, fall behind, lag

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

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

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

Example Sentences:
'The suspects were imprisoned without trial'
'the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life'

6. lag

throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

7. lag

cover with lagging to prevent heat loss

Example Sentences:
'lag pipes'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lag

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verbWord forms: lags, lagging or lagged (intransitive)
1. (often foll by behind)
to hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc
2. 
to fall away in strength or intensity
3. 
to determine an order of play in certain games, as by rolling marbles towards a line or, in billiards, hitting cue balls up the table against the top cushion in an attempt to bring them back close to the headrail
noun
4. 
the act or state of slowing down or falling behind
5. 
the interval of time between two events, esp between an action and its effect
6. 
an act of lagging in a game, such as billiards
noun
1. 
a convict or ex-convict (esp in the phrase old lag)
2. 
a term of imprisonment
verbWord forms: lags, lagging or lagged
3. (transitive)
to arrest or put in prison
verbWord forms: lags, lagging or lagged
1. (transitive)
to cover (a pipe, cylinder, etc) with lagging to prevent loss of heat
noun
2. 
the insulating casing of a steam cylinder, boiler, etc; lagging
3. 
a stave or lath

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Lag

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verb intransitiveWord forms: lagged or ˈlagging
1. 
a. 
to fall, move, or stay behind; loiter; linger
b. 
to move or develop more slowly than expected, desired, etc.; be retarded in motion, development, etc.
2. 
to become gradually less intense, strong, etc.; wane; flag
3. 
to toss a marble toward a line marked on the ground to determine the order of play
4.  Billiards
to strike the cue ball so that it rebounds from the far rail to stop as close as possible to the near rail or the string line: done to decide the order of play
noun
5. 
a falling behind or being retarded in motion, development, etc.
6. 
the amount of such falling behind; interval between two related events, processes, etc.
the lag of peak current behind peak voltage
7. 
a lagging, as in billiards and marbles
8.  Rare
one that lags, or is last
noun
1. 
a strip of insulating material used for covering boilers, cylinders, etc.
verb transitiveWord forms: lagged or ˈlagging
2. 
to cover with insulating material
verb transitiveWord forms: lagged or ˈlagging
1. 
to imprison
2. 
to arrest
noun
3. 
a convict or ex-convict
: often old lag
4. 
a term of imprisonment

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Lag

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v. lagged, lag·ging, lags
v.intr.
1. To fail to keep up a pace; straggle: a hiker who lagged behind his companions on the trail.
2. To proceed or develop with comparative slowness: a nation that lags behind its neighbors in economic development.
3. To weaken or slacken; flag: My attention lagged when the lecturer changed subjects.
4. Games To determine the order of play by hitting or shooting a ball toward a mark, as in marbles or billiards, with the player whose ball stops closest to the mark going first.
v.tr.
1. To fail to keep up with (another): One horse lagged the others throughout the race.
2. To proceed or develop at a slower pace than (another): "putting new money into sectors that have lagged the market" (Peter Lynch).
3. Sports In golf, to hit (a putt) so that it stops a short way from the hole and can then be tapped in.
n.
1. An interval between one event or phenomenon and another: "He wondered darkly at how great a lag there was between his thinking and his actions" (Thomas Wolfe).
2. A condition of weakness or slackening: a lag in interest.
n.
1. A barrel stave.
2. A strip, as of wood, that forms a part of the covering for a cylindrical object.
tr.v. lagged, lag·ging, lags
To furnish or cover with lags.
tr.v. lagged, lag·ging, lags
1. To arrest.
2. To send to prison.
n.
1. A convict.
2. An ex-convict.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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