browse words by letter
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z
lag |
11 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] Came too lag to see him buried. --Shak. 2. Last long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end ``The lag end of my life.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lag \Lag\, v. t. 1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] ``To lag his flight.'' --Heywood. 2. (Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See {Lag}, n., 4. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lag \Lag\, n. One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lag \Lag\, v. t. To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.] She lags us if we poach. --De Quincey. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lag \Lag\, n. 1. One who lags; that which comes in last [Obs.] ``The lag of all the flock.'' --Pope. 2. The fag-end; the rump; hence the lowest class. The common lag of people. --Shak. 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. (Zo["o]l.) See {Graylag}. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lag \Lag\, n. 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [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 pieces 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 in jail [syn: {imprison}, {incarcerate}, {immure}, {put behind bars}, {jail}, {jug}, {gaol}, {put away}, {remand}] 3: cover with lagging to prevent heat loss "lag pipes" From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [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 (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: lag {netlag} From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: LAG Logical Address Group (ION)
more about lag
This work is licensed under a
