lag

Definitions

1. 1adjective

   Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

2. 2adjective

   Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

3. 3adjective

   Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

4. 4noun

   One who lags; that which comes in last.

5. 5noun

   The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

6. 6noun

   The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

7. 7noun

   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. 8noun

   See Graylag.

9. 9intransitive verb

   To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

10. 10transitive verb

    To cause to lag; to slacken.

11. 11transitive verb

    To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag., 4.

12. 12noun

    One transported for a crime.

13. 13transitive verb

    To transport for crime.

14. 14noun

    the act of slowing down or falling behind

    Synonyms

    retardationslowdown
15. 15noun

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

    Synonyms

    stave
16. 16noun

    the time between one event, process, or period and another

    "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"

    Synonyms

    interimmeantimemeanwhile
17. 17verb

    cover with lagging to prevent heat loss

    "lag pipes"

18. 18verb

    throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

19. 19verb

    hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

    Synonyms

    dawdle
20. 20verb

    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

    gaolimmureimprisonincarceratejailjugremand