lagging
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ɪŋ noun
1.
the act of falling or staying behind.
adjective
2.
lingering; loitering; slow and dragging: lagging steps.
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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.
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.
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] | |
| lagging (ˈlæɡɪŋ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | insulating material wrapped around pipes, boilers, etc, or laid in a roof loft, to prevent loss of heat |
| 2. | the act or process of applying lagging |
| 3. | a wooden frame used to support an arch during construction |
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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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Medical Dictionary
lagging lag·ging (lāg'ĭng)
n.
Retarded or diminished movement of the affected side of the chest in pulmonary tuberculosis.
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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
Besides science, another area that is lagging is the court system.
Engineers often mock the law for lagging behind technology.
But lagging behind that technical adoption are all the legal and business things required to do this type of development.
In the short term, however, smaller firms' fortunes are lagging.
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