lag
IPA: ɫˈæg
noun
- (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
- (uncountable) Delay; latency.
- (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
- (Britain, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
- (slang) A period of imprisonment.
- (snooker) A method of deciding which player is to start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
- A bird, the greylag.
verb
- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer).
- (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
- (UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
- (UK, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.
- (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
adjective
- Late.
- (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
- Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
- (poker) Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
Examples of "lag" in Sentences
- The boy was lag behind the group.
- The navy did not lag behind the army.
- The high ping is the result of the lag.
- The terms anticipatory and lag will be used here.
- This is the period of adaptation, called the lag phase.
- The first stupidity is to lag far behind the demand of time.
- The following procedure is used for the lag for the opening break.
- Didn't the west of Ireland lag behind the east in the new prosperity
- The significance of this lag depends on the application of the monitor.
- The lag is between the input of the monitor, and the picture on the monitor.
- Ironically, the only main economic indicator that has continued to lag is unemployment.
- You want to let it lag along, and _lag_ along, and see 'f something won't happen to get you out of it!
- The impact lag is the time between when the action is taken and when the effect of the action is felt.
- “That four-year lag is where the music industry lost the battle,” said Sonal Gandhi, music analyst with Forrester Research.
- This popularity lag is probably the source of the modern concern that “for a moment” is the more original, more pure sense, and “in a moment” the interloper.
- That lag is perfectly congruent with his theory that the bigger part of the crash came when overly restrictive monetary policy turned a manageable bubble pop into the end of the world as we know it.
- The built-in lag in adjusting home assessments has become a government policymakers dream: It is a counter-cyclical tax that can generate more revenue in bad times, raising collections at a time when other economically sensitive taxes falter.