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[1] to fail to maintain a desired pace or to keep up; fall or stay behind: After five minutes of hard running, some of them began to lag.
[2] to move or develop slowly, as toward a goal or objective, or in relation to an associated factor (often followed by behind ): to lag behind in production.
[3] to delay or fail in reaching full development: The factory lags regularly in making its quota.
[4] to hang back; linger; delay: The old friends lagged because they wanted to talk some more.
[5] to decrease, wane, or flag gradually, as in intensity: Interest lagged as the meeting went on.
[6] Marbles . to throw one's shooting marble toward a line (lag line) on the ground in order to decide on the order of play.
[7] Billiards , Pool . string(def 17b) .
[8] to fail to keep up with: The industry still lags the national economy.
[9] Obsolete . to cause to lag.
[10] a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
[11] a person who lags behind, is the last to arrive, etc.
[12] an interval or lapse of time: There was a developmental lag in the diffusion of ideas.
[13] Mechanics . the amount of retardation of some motion.
[14] Electricity . the retardation of one alternating quantity, as current, with respect to another related alternating quantity, as voltage, often expressed in degrees.
[15] Marbles , Billiards . the act of lagging.
[16] to send to penal servitude; imprison.
[17] a convict or ex-convict.
[18] a period or term of penal servitude; prison sentence.
[19] one of the staves or strips that form the periphery of a wooden drum, the casing of a steam cylinder, or the like.
[20] Masonry . a crosspiece between ribs in a centering.
[21] to line or cover (an excavation) with lagging.
[22] to cover with insulation, as a steam boiler, to prevent radiation of heat.
[23] (often foll by behind) to hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc
[24] to fall away in strength or intensity
[25] to determine an order of play in certain games, as by rolling marbles towards a line or, in billiards, hitting cue balls up the table against the top cushion in an attempt to bring them back close to the headrail
[26] the act or state of slowing down or falling behind
[27] the interval of time between two events, esp between an action and its effect
[28] an act of lagging in a game, such as billiards
[29] a convict or ex-convict (esp in the phrase old lag )
[30] a term of imprisonment
[31] (tr) to arrest or put in prison
[32] (tr) to cover (a pipe, cylinder, etc) with lagging to prevent loss of heat
[33] the insulating casing of a steam cylinder, boiler, etc; lagging
[34] a stave or lath

Words related to Lag

slow, slacken, wane, trail, decrease, falter, diminish, fail, shuffle, ebb, slouch, tarry, jelly, dawdle, procrastinate, poke, dillydally, idle, lounge, plod

Words nearby Lag

lafora body, lafora body disease, lafora's disease, laforgue, lafta, lag, lag b'omer, lag correlation, lag line, lag screw, lag-screw

Origin of Lag

31665–75; < Scandinavian; compare Swedish lagg stave

Word origin for Lag

C17: of Scandinavian origin; related to Swedish lagg stave

Synonyms for Lag

decrease, diminish, fail, fall off, falter, slacken, slow, trail, wane, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drag, ebb, flag, hobble, idle, inch, jelly, limp, linger, loiter, lounge, plod, poke, procrastinate, retard, saunter, shuffle, slouch, stagger, stay, straggle, tail, tarry, tool, trudge, be behind, drag one's feet, get no place fast, hang back, inch along, lose strength, put off, slow up