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Lag   /læg/   Listen
noun
Lag  n.  
1.
One who lags; that which comes in last. (Obs.) "The lag of all the flock."
2.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. "The common lag of people."
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.
5.
(Zool.) See Graylag.
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.
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.


Lag  n.  One transported for a crime. (Slang, Eng.)


verb
Lag  v. t.  
1.
To cause to lag; to slacken. (Obs.) "To lag his flight."
2.
(Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.


Lag  v. t.  To transport for crime. (Slang, Eng.) "She lags us if we poach."


Lag  v. i.  (past & past part. lagged; pres. part. lagging)  To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. "I shall not lag behind."
Synonyms: To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.


adjective
Lag  adj.  
1.
Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. (Obs.) "Came too lag to see him buried."
2.
Last; long-delayed; obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. "The lag end of my life."
3.
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. (Obs.) "Lag souls."





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"Lag" Quotes from Famous Books



... policies—and it has normalized relations with its creditors. Yet it still is struggling with privatization of large state enterprises and with bank reform. In 1998, Croatia made progress in reducing its current account deficit to about 8% of GDP from 12% the previous year. Economic growth continues to lag, however, and growing levels of inter-enterprise debt plague the domestic economy. Four commercial banks were put under government control and a major ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... continued Benson; 'there is a dead silence, till pug is well out of cover, and the whole pack well in; then cheer the hounds with tally-ho! till your lungs crack. Away he goes in gallant style, and the whole field is hard up, till pug takes a stiff country; then they who haven't pluck lag, see no more of him, and, with a fine blazing scent, there are but few of us in ...
— The Absentee • Maria Edgeworth
... was blazing down on them hotly. The warmth felt good, especially to those who still wore the clothes in which they had spent so much time in the cold water of the pond. To Harriet it was a grateful relief from the chill that had followed her accident. Tommy permitted herself to lag behind, and the moment she was out of ear-shot of her companions she began to quiz the country boy to learn ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea - Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar • Janet Aldridge
... whole night through; tired and weary as the day's journey had left me, excitement was still too strong for repose, and I walked up and down, lay for half an hour on my bed, rose to look out, and peer for coming dawn! Never did hours lag so lazily. The darkness seemed to last for an eternity, and when at last day did break, it was through the lowering gloom of skies still charged with rain, and ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various
... a tired gendarme making his round, picturesque of aspect in kepi and flowing cloak. His footsteps brisked up, as he met and treated them to a discreetly sympathetic and intelligent observation, only to lag again wearily as ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet


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