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See låg

English

Pronunciation


Adjective


  1. late


Quotations

  • 1592: Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried. — William Shakespeare, King Richard III


Noun

  1. a gap; an interval created by something not keeping up
  2. a prisoner, a criminal.
  3. bad connection, loss of connection


Quotations

  • 2004: During the Second World War, for instance, the Washington Senators had a starting rotation that included four knuckleball pitchers. But, still, I think that some of that was just a generational lag. — The New Yorker Online, 10 May 2004


Related terms


Verb

{{en-verb|lag|g|ed}}

  1. to not keep up (the pace), to fall behind
  2. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material


Quotations

to fail to keep up

  • 1587???: Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost — George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer


  • 1596: Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe. — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I


  • 1798: Brown skeletons of leaves that lag / My forest-brook along — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts, 1798


Construction: to lag behind

  • ???: While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find. — The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands


  • 2004: Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan. — The New Yorker, 5 April 2004


to cover with felt strips

  • 1974???: Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free. — Philip Larkin, The Building


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Derived terms


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Afrikaans

Etymology

Dutch lachen

Verb

lag

  1. laugh


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Danish

Noun

lag

  1. layer


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Dutch

Verb form

lag

  1. singular past tense of liggen


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Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA: [lɛaː]

Noun

lag

  1. layer
  2. (in compounds) what belongs together (company, union)
  3. regularity, order
  4. skill, capability
  5. method, system
  6. importance
  7. mood
  8. design, shape
  9. melody


Usage notes

what belongs together

order

  • í lagi - in order, all right, ok

skill

importance

mood

  • tað er einki lag á honum - he is in a bad mood


Declension

{{fo-decl-noun-n6|l|a|g|ø}}


Category:Faroese nouns Category:fo:Music

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German

Verb form

lag

  1. 1st and 3rd person singular past tense of liegen


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Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Lag.ogg


Noun

lag

  1. layer
  2. song


Category:Icelandic nouns

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Irish

Etymology

From < {{proto|Celtic|laggo-|lang=ga}} < {{proto|Indo-European|(s)leh₁g-|lang=ga}}, cf. and Latin {{term|laxus||slack|lang=la}}.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: lang=ga
  • IPA: lang=ga


Adjective

{{infl|ga|adjective|genitive singular masculine|laig|genitive singular feminine|laige|plural|laga|comparative|laige}}

  1. weak


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Maltese

Noun

lag

  1. lake


Synonyms


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Norwegian

Noun

{{infl|no|noun|g=n}}

  1. team (group of people)


{{tbot entry|Norwegian|team|2008|April|no}}

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Swedish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Sv-lag.ogg


Noun

{{infl|sv|noun|g=c}}

  1. law; a written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and the appropriate consequences thereof. Laws are usually associated with mores.
  2. law; the body of written rules governing a society.
  3. law; a one-sided contract.
  4. law; an observed physical law.
  5. law; a statement that is true under specified conditions.


See also


Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Sv-lag.ogg


Noun

{{infl|sv|noun|g=c}}

  1. In the Context of a water-based solution of sugar, salt and/or other spices; e.g. brine


Derived terms


Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at Sv-lag.ogg


Noun

{{infl|sv|noun|g=n}}

  1. team; group of people which in sports compete together versus another team; or in general, work closely together


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.]
[1913 Webster]

Came too lag to see him buried. --Shak.
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2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag
end. "The lag end of my life." --Shak.
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3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs.] "Lag
souls." --Dryden.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lag \Lag\, n.
1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] "The lag of
all the flock." --Pope.
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2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
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The common lag of people. --Shak.
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3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a
steam engine, in opening or closing.
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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.
[1913 Webster]

5. (Zool.) See Graylag.
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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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lag \Lag\, v. t.
1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] "To lag his flight."
--Heywood.
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2. (Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with
lags. See Lag, n., 4.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lag \Lag\, n.
One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lag \Lag\, v. t.
To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.]
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She lags us if we poach. --De Quincey.
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WordNet 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 slats 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 or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were
imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated
for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate,
immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, {put
away}, remand]
3: throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
4: cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes"
[also: lagging, lagged]
Moby Dictionary
afterthought , antedate , arrest , be found wanting , bind , block ,
blockage , bureaucratic delay , cast out , check , closing , collapse ,
come short , con , concluding , confine , dalliance , dally , dallying ,
dawdle , dawdling , dead time , deceleration , decline , delay ,
delayage , delayed reaction , deport , detain , detention , diddle ,
dilatoriness , dillydally , dillydallying , displace , doodle ,
double take , drag , dragging , ease-off , ease-up , eventual , exile ,
expatriate , expel , fail , fall away , fall behind , fall short ,
falter , final , flag , flagging , foredate , gain , get behind ,
goof off , halt , hang back , hang-up , hinder , hindmost , hindrance ,
hold back , hold up , holdup , hysteresis , impede , interim , jailbird ,
jam , keep back , lack , lagging , latest , latter , letdown , letup ,
linger , linger behind , lingering , logjam , loiter , loitering ,
lollygag , lollygagging , lose ground , loser , make late ,
minus acceleration , misdate , mistime , moratorium , not answer ,
not hack it , not make it , not make out , not measure up ,
not stretch , not suffice , obstruct , obstruction , output lag ,
paperasserie , pause , piddle , poke , postdate , process lag ,
procrastinate , procrastination , put off , red tape , red-tapeism ,
red-tapery , relegate , reprieve , respite , retard , retardance ,
retardation , retardment , run short , setback , shilly-shally ,
shilly-shallying , slack-up , slacken , slackening , slow , slow down ,
slow-up , slowdown , slowing , slowing down , slowness , slowup , slump ,
stay , stay of execution , stop , stop short , stoppage , straggle ,
suspension , tarry , tarrying , terminal , throughput , tie-up ,
time constants , time lag , time lead , trail , trail behind ,
transport , ultimate , wait , want , waste time


LAG Logical Address Group (ION)
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.


FOLDOC lag

netlag


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