Lag

11 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lag \Lag\, v. i. [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.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lag \Lag\, a. [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.]
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              Came too lag to see him buried.       --Shak.
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     2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag
        end. "The lag end of my life." --Shak.
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     3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs.] "Lag
        souls." --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lag \Lag\, n.
     1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] "The lag of
        all the flock." --Pope.
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     2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
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              The common lag of people.             --Shak.
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     3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a
        steam engine, in opening or closing.
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     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.
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     5. (Zool.) See {Graylag}.
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     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.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lag \Lag\, v. t.
     1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] "To lag his flight."
        --Heywood.
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     2. (Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with
        lags. See {Lag}, n., 4.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lag \Lag\, n.
     One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lag \Lag\, v. t.
     To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.]
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           She lags us if we poach.                 --De Quincey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lag
       n 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}]
       v 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 Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  LAG
       Logical Address Group (ION)
       
       

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]:

  lag
       
          {netlag}