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LagLag 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. Lag
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.
LagLag 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. Lag
Lag Lag, n.
One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]
Lag
Lag Lag, v. t.
To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.]
She lags us if we poach. --De Quincey.
LagLag 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. Lag
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.
Meaning of Lag from wikipedia
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lag is a
temporary physiological condition that
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Lag BaOmer (Hebrew: לַ״ג בָּעוֹמֶר,
LaG Bāʿōmer), also
Lag B'Omer or
Lag LaOmer, is a
Jewish religious holiday celebrated on the 33rd day of the Counting...
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Lag: The Game is an
American travel competition web
series by
Wendover Productions, and
released on
Nebula and YouTube.
Created by and
starring Sam...
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lagger in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Lagger is a surname.
Notable people with the
surname include: Ed
Lagger (1912–1981),
American baseball...
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March 2015.
Retrieved 12 June 2022. "Turbo
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- In economics, the
inside lag (or
inside recognition and
decision lag) is the
amount of time it
takes for a
government or a
central bank to
respond to...
- Lid
lag is the
static situation in
which the
upper eyelid is
higher than
normal with the
globe in downgaze. It is most
often a sign of
thyroid eye disease...
- In computers,
lag is
delay (latency)
between the
action of the user (input) and the
reaction of the
server supporting the task,
which has to be sent back...
- The anti-
lag system (ALS) is a
method of
reducing turbo lag or
effective compression used on
turbocharged engines to
minimize turbo lag on
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