11 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lag \Lag\, adjective [Of Celtic origin: cf. Gael. & Ir. lagweak, feeble, faint, W. llag, llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; prob. akin to E. lax, languid.]
1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [Obs.]
Came too lag to see him buried. --Shak.
2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. ''The lag end of my life.'' --Shak.
3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs.] ''Lag souls.'' --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] ''The lag of all the flock.'' --Pope.
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: (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.
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lag \Lag\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Lagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lagging}.] To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. ''I shall not lag behind.'' --Milton.
Syn: To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lag \Lag\, verb (used with an object)
1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] ''To lag his flight.'' --Heywood.
2. (Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See {Lag}, noun, 4.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lag \Lag\, noun One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lag \Lag\, verb (used with an object) To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.]
She lags us if we poach. --De Quincey.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: the act of slowing down or falling behind [syn: {slowdown}, {retardation}]
2: the time between one event, process, or period and another [syn: {interim}]
3: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket [syn: {stave}]
verb
1: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. [syn: {dawdle}, {fall back}, {fall behind}]
2: 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" [syn: {imprison}, {incarcerate}, {immure}, {put behind bars}, {jail}, {jug}, {gaol}, {put away}, {remand}]
3: throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
4: cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes" [also: {lagging}, {lagged}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
160 Moby Thesaurus words for "lag": afterthought, antedate, arrest, be found wanting, bind, block, blockage, bureaucratic delay, cast out, check, closing, collapse, come short, con, concluding, confine, dalliance, dally, dallying, dawdle, dawdling, dead time, deceleration, decline, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, deport, detain, detention, diddle, dilatoriness, dillydally, dillydallying, displace, doodle, double take, drag, dragging, ease-off, ease-up, eventual, exile, expatriate, expel, fail, fall away, fall behind, fall short, falter, final, flag, flagging, foredate, gain, get behind, goof off, halt, hang back, hang-up, hinder, hindmost, hindrance, hold back, hold up, holdup, hysteresis, impede, interim, jailbird, jam, keep back, lack, lagging, latest, latter, letdown, letup, linger, linger behind, lingering, logjam, loiter, loitering, lollygag, lollygagging, lose ground, loser, make late, minus acceleration, misdate, mistime, moratorium, not answer, not hack it, not make it, not make out, not measure up, not stretch, not suffice, obstruct, obstruction, output lag, paperasserie, pause, piddle, poke, postdate, process lag, procrastinate, procrastination, put off, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, relegate, reprieve, respite, retard, retardance, retardation, retardment, run short, setback, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, slack-up, slacken, slackening, slow, slow down, slow-up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowness, slowup, slump, stay, stay of execution, stop, stop short, stoppage, straggle, suspension, tarry, tarrying, terminal, throughput, tie-up, time constants, time lag, time lead, trail, trail behind, transport, ultimate, wait, want, waste time
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
lag n. [MUD, IRC; very common] When used without qualification this is synomous with {netlag}. Curiously, people will often complain "I'm really lagged" when in fact it is their server or network connection that is lagging.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
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