lag
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lag
n 1: the act of slowing down or falling behind [syn: {slowdown},
{lag}, {retardation}]
2: the time between one event, process, or period and another;
"meanwhile the socialists are running the government" [syn:
{interim}, {meantime}, {meanwhile}, {lag}]
3: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a
barrel or bucket [syn: {stave}, {lag}]
v 1: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress,
development, etc. [syn: {lag}, {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}, {lag},
{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"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
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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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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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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.
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{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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from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
lag
n.
[MUD, IRC; very common] When used without qualification this is
synonymous with {netlag}. Curiously, people will often complain "I'm
really lagged" when in fact it is their server or network connection
that is lagging.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
netlag
lag
<networking> A condition that occurs when the delays in the
{IRC} network, a {MUD} connection, a {telnet} connection, or
any other networked interactive system, become severe enough
that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contact,
causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays
of up to a minute. (Note that this term has nothing to do
with mainstream "jet lag").
[{Jargon File}]
(1996-06-21)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
160 Moby Thesaurus words for "lag":
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
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