'LAG' definitions:

Definition of 'lag'

noun

The act of slowing down or falling behind [syn: slowdown, lag, retardation]

noun

The time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government" [syn: interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag]

noun

One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket [syn: stave, lag]

verb

Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. [syn: lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind]

verb

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, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand]

verb

Throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

verb

Cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes"

Definition of 'Lag'

From: GCIDE

Lag \Lag\, n.
1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] "The lag of all the flock." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. [1913 Webster]
The common lag of people. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lag'

From: GCIDE

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. [1913 Webster]
2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. "The lag end of my life." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs.] "Lag souls." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lag'

From: GCIDE

Lag \Lag\, v. t. To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.] [1913 Webster]
She lags us if we poach. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lag'

From: GCIDE

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]

Definition of 'Lag'

From: GCIDE

Lag \Lag\, v. t.
1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] "To lag his flight." --Heywood. [1913 Webster]
2. (Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4. [1913 Webster]