LAG
\lˈaɡ], \lˈaɡ], \l_ˈa_ɡ]\
Definitions of LAG
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
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throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
By Princeton University
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hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
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throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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See Graylag.
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Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
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Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
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One who lags; that which comes in last.
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The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
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The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
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To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
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To cause to lag; to slacken.
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To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
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One transported for a crime.
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To transport for crime.
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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.
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Last; long-delayed; - obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
By Oddity Software
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See Graylag.
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Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
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Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
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One who lags; that which comes in last.
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The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
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The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
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To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
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To cause to lag; to slacken.
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To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
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One transported for a crime.
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To transport for crime.
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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.
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Last; long-delayed; - obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Slack: sluggish: coming behind.
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He who or that which comes behind: the fag-end.
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To move or walk slowly: to loiter:-pr.p. lagging; pa.p. lagged.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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