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Definitions for Lagging

[1] the act of falling or staying behind.
[2] lingering; loitering; slow and dragging: lagging steps.
[3] the act of covering a boiler, oil tank, etc., with heat-insulating material.
[4] the covering formed.
[5] the material used.
[6] a number of boards or the like joined together side by side to line an excavation.
[7] Masonry . a number of lags, taken as a whole.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] to delay or fail in reaching full development: The factory lags regularly in making its quota.
[11] to hang back; linger; delay: The old friends lagged because they wanted to talk some more.
[12] to decrease, wane, or flag gradually, as in intensity: Interest lagged as the meeting went on.
[13] Marbles . to throw one's shooting marble toward a line (lag line) on the ground in order to decide on the order of play.
[14] Billiards , Pool . string(def 17b) .
[15] to fail to keep up with: The industry still lags the national economy.
[16] Obsolete . to cause to lag.
[17] a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
[18] a person who lags behind, is the last to arrive, etc.
[19] an interval or lapse of time: There was a developmental lag in the diffusion of ideas.
[20] Mechanics . the amount of retardation of some motion.
[21] Electricity . the retardation of one alternating quantity, as current, with respect to another related alternating quantity, as voltage, often expressed in degrees.
[22] Marbles , Billiards . the act of lagging.
[23] to send to penal servitude; imprison.
[24] a convict or ex-convict.
[25] a period or term of penal servitude; prison sentence.
[26] one of the staves or strips that form the periphery of a wooden drum, the casing of a steam cylinder, or the like.
[27] Masonry . a crosspiece between ribs in a centering.
[28] to line or cover (an excavation) with lagging.
[29] to cover with insulation, as a steam boiler, to prevent radiation of heat.
[30] insulating material wrapped around pipes, boilers, etc, or laid in a roof loft, to prevent loss of heat
[31] the act or process of applying lagging
[32] a wooden frame used to support an arch during construction
[33] (often foll by behind) to hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc
[34] to fall away in strength or intensity
[35] 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
[36] the act or state of slowing down or falling behind
[37] the interval of time between two events, esp between an action and its effect
[38] an act of lagging in a game, such as billiards
[39] a convict or ex-convict (esp in the phrase old lag )
[40] a term of imprisonment
[41] (tr) to arrest or put in prison
[42] (tr) to cover (a pipe, cylinder, etc) with lagging to prevent loss of heat
[43] the insulating casing of a steam cylinder, boiler, etc; lagging
[44] a stave or lath

Words related to Lagging

underdeveloped, imbecile, arrested, delayed, behind, stupid, dull, subnormal, checked, dense, feeble-minded, late, moronic, underprivileged, undeveloped

Words nearby Lagging

laggardly, laggen, laggen-gird, lagger, laggin, lagging, laghouat, lagniappe, lago de nicaragua, lagomorph, lagoon

Origin of Lagging

31665–75; < Scandinavian; compare Swedish lagg stave

Other words from Lagging

lag·ging·ly , adverb

Word origin for Lagging

C17: of Scandinavian origin; related to Swedish lagg stave

Synonyms for Lagging

underdeveloped, arrested, behind, checked, delayed, dull, imbecile, stupid, subnormal, dense, feeble-minded, late, moronic, underprivileged, undeveloped