lagged
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verb (used without object)
1.
to fail to maintain a desired pace or to keep up; fall or stay behind: After five minutes of hard running, some of them began to lag.
2.
to move or develop slowly, as toward a goal or objective, or in relation to an associated factor (often followed by behind ): to lag behind in production.
3.
to delay or fail in reaching full development: The factory lags regularly in making its quota.
4.
to hang back; linger; delay: The old friends lagged because they wanted to talk some more.
5.
to decrease, wane, or flag gradually, as in intensity: Interest lagged as the meeting went on.
verb (used with object)
8.
to fail to keep up with: The industry still lags the national economy.
9.
Obsolete. to cause to lag.
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noun
10.
a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
11.
a person who lags behind, is the last to arrive, etc.
12.
an interval or lapse of time: There was a developmental lag in the diffusion of ideas.
13.
Mechanics. the amount of retardation of some motion.
14.
Electricity. the retardation of one alternating quantity, as current, with respect to another related alternating quantity, as voltage, often expressed in degrees.
15.
Marbles, Billiards. the act of lagging.
Origin:
1505–15; < Scandinavian: compare Norwegian lagga to go slowly
1505–15; < Scandinavian: compare Norwegian lagga to go slowly
Synonyms
1. loiter, linger. 10. slowing, slowdown.
1. loiter, linger. 10. slowing, slowdown.
Antonyms
1. hasten.
1. hasten.
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noun
1.
one of the staves or strips that form the periphery of a wooden drum, the casing of a steam cylinder, or the like.
2.
Masonry. a crosspiece between ribs in a centering.
Origin:
1665–75; < Scandinavian; compare Swedish lagg stave
1665–75; < Scandinavian; compare Swedish lagg stave
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lag1 (læɡ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb , lags, lagging, lagged | |
| 1. | ( |
| 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 |
| —n | |
| 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 |
| [C16: of obscure origin] | |
| lag2 (læɡ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a convict or ex-convict (esp in the phrase old lag) |
| 2. | a term of imprisonment |
| —vb , lags, lagging, lagged | |
| 3. | (tr) to arrest or put in prison |
| [C19: of unknown origin] | |
| lag3 (læɡ) | |
| —vb , lags, lagging, lagged | |
| 1. | (tr) to cover (a pipe, cylinder, etc) with lagging to prevent loss of heat |
| —n | |
| 2. | the insulating casing of a steam cylinder, boiler, etc; lagging |
| 3. | a stave or lath |
| [C17: of Scandinavian origin; related to Swedish lagg stave] | |
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Word Origin & History
lag
"fail to keep pace," 1520s, from earlier adj. meaning "last" (1510s), e.g. lag-mon "last man," possibly from a Scand. source (cf. Norw. lagga "go slowly"), or some dialectal version of last, lack, or delay. Related: Lag; lagging. First record of lag time is from 1956.
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Slang Dictionary
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.
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Example sentences
Yet its standing as a collectable object has always lagged behind its value as an idea.
But pay has lagged behind, and the wages of production workers have stagnated.
Biomedical engineers have built many types of human organs in the lab, but they've lagged on lung tissue--until now.
In output and productivity growth, the euro zone has lagged behind other developed economies.
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