lag

lag is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as adjective, noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
2. adjective. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
3. adjective. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
4. noun. One who lags; that which comes in last.
5. noun. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
6. noun. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. See Graylag.
9. intransitive verb. To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
10. transitive verb. To cause to lag; to slacken.
11. transitive verb. To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
12. noun. One transported for a crime.
13. transitive verb. To transport for crime.
14. noun. the act of slowing down or falling behind

    Synonyms: retardation, slowdown

15. noun. one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

    Synonyms: stave

16. noun. the time between one event, process, or period and another

    "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"

    Synonyms: interim, meantime, meanwhile

17. verb. cover with lagging to prevent heat loss

    "lag pipes"

18. verb. throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
19. verb. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

    Synonyms: dawdle

20. 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"

    Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, remand

Synonyms

retardation, slowdown, stave, interim, meantime, meanwhile, dawdle, gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, remand

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lag:

alg, gal

Common word forms

lags, lagen, lager, lagly, lagged, lagger, lagging

Words from these letters

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