Lag

[læg] or [læɡ]

Definition

(verb.) cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; 'lag pipes'.

(verb.) throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins.

(verb.) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc..

Inputed by Brice--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

(a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

(a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

(n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.

(n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

(n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

(n.) 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.

(n.) See Graylag.

(v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

(v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.

(v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.

(n.) One transported for a crime.

(v. t.) To transport for crime.

Typed by Gilda

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Loiter, linger, saunter, fall behind, move slowly.

Editor: Meredith

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Loiter, linger, saunter, dally, tarry, Idle

ANT:Press, hasten, speedup, hurry, stir

Edited by Gail

Definition

adj. slack: sluggish: coming behind.—n. he who or that which comes behind: the fag-end: (slang) an old convict.—v.i. to move or walk slowly: to loiter.—v.t. (slang) to commit to justice:—pr.p. lag′ging; pa.p. lagged.—adj. Lag′-bell′ied having a drooping belly.—n. Lag′-end (Shak.) the last or long-delayed end.—adj. Lag′gard lagging: slow: backward.—ns. Lag′gard Lag′ger one who lags behind: a loiterer: an idler.—adv. Lag′gingly in a lagging manner.

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