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Lag   /læg/   Listen
Lag

noun
1.
The act of slowing down or falling behind.  Synonyms: retardation, slowdown.
2.
The time between one event, process, or period and another.  Synonyms: interim, meantime, meanwhile.
3.
One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket.  Synonym: stave.
verb
(past & past part. lagged; pres. part. lagging)
1.
Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc..  Synonyms: dawdle, fall back, fall behind.
2.
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.  Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, put away, put behind bars, remand.  "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
3.
Throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins.
4.
Cover with lagging to prevent heat loss.



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"Lag" Quotes from Famous Books



... speeches hobble vilely How "Hear him" bursts from brother Hiley! When his faltering periods lag Hark to ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... disappeared, having been used up, no doubt, as material for the neighbouring buildings. There was, however, at Logierait, a Royal Castle, from which the place itself and the large adjacent parish take their name—Lag-an-raith, the hollow of the Castle,—while the neighbouring small hamlet and railway station on the other side of the Tummel are called Balla-na-luig—the town of the hollow. The Castle stood on a high knoll overlooking the church ...
— Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 • Dorothy Wordsworth
... assessment: Vietnam is putting considerable effort into modernization and expansion of its telecommunication system, but its performance continues to lag behind that of its ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... who art the leader of the flock? Thou art not wont thus to lag behind. Thou hast always been the first to run to the pastures and streams in the morning, and the first to come back to the fold when evening fell; and now thou art last of all. Perhaps thou art troubled about thy master's ...
— Myths That Every Child Should Know - A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People • Various
... it: and therefore am not apt to say much of that kind. The sentence that I pass upon myself is more severe than that of a judge, who only considers the common obligation; but my conscience looks upon it with a more severe and penetrating eye. I lag in those duties to which I should be compelled if I did ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne


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