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Definition of Lag

1. Noun. The act of slowing down or falling behind.

2. Verb. Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc..

3. Noun. The time between one event, process, or period and another. "Meanwhile the socialists are running the government"

4. Verb. Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail. "They want to lag the prisoners "; "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

5. Noun. One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket.

6. Verb. Throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins.

7. Verb. Cover with lagging to prevent heat loss. "Lag pipes"

Definition of Lag

1. a. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

2. n. One who lags; that which comes in last.

3. v. i. To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

4. v. t. To cause to lag; to slacken.

5. n. One transported for a crime.

6. v. t. To transport for crime.

7. n. 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.

Definition of Lag

1. to stay or fall behind [v LAGGED, LAGGING, LAGS]

Medical Definition of Lag

1. 1. One who lags; that which comes in last. "The lag of all the flock." 2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. "The common lag of people." (Shak) 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, 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. See Graylag. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lag

laevigate laevo laevulose laevulose lafayette Lafayette Laffer Laffer curve Laffite Lafitte

Lafora's disease Lafora's disease Lafora body Lafora body disease lag (current term) lag (current term) lagan lagans Lagarostrobus Lagarostrobus colensoi

Lagarostrobus franklinii lagemorpha lagena lagena Lagenaria Lagenaria siceraria lagenas lagend lagends lagenian

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