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Lag

noun

1.

The act of slowing down or falling behind. Synonyms: retardation, slowdown.

2.

The time between one event, process, or period and another. Synonyms: interim, meantime, meanwhile.

3.

One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket. Synonym: stave.

verb

(past & past part. lagged; pres. part. lagging)

1.

Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.. Synonyms: dawdle, fall back, fall behind.

2.

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail. Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, put away, put behind bars, remand. "The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

3.

Throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins.

4.

Cover with lagging to prevent heat loss.

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"Lag" Quotes from Famous Books

... last words. Don't ride ahead or lag behind: regulate your pace by mine. Look out for armadillo holes,—they are more dangerous than the Indians. Remember my orders: on no account use the second chamber of your carbines unless in case of great ...

— Out on the Pampas - The Young Settlers • G. A. Henty

... saying, 'Come along! come along!' and, looking up, saw a monstrous black creature sailing above the tops of the trees. It was only a crow on his way to the swamp, and he was trying to hurry up his mate, that always would lag behind in that corn-field where there wasn't so much as a grain left; but Tufty, which by this time you must have discovered was a very ignorant bird, thought the black monster was calling him, and piped back feebly: 'I can't! I can't!' and was all of a tremble ...

— Miss Elliot's Girls • Mrs Mary Spring Corning

... Refreshing springs may tempt them from the heat, And shady coverts yield a cool retreat. Whether the neighbouring water stands or runs, 30 Lay twigs across and bridge it o'er with stones That if rough storms, or sudden blasts of wind, Should dip or scatter those that lag behind, Here they may settle on the friendly stone, And dry their reeking pinions at the sun. Plant all the flowery banks with lavender, With store of savory scent the fragrant air; Let running betony ...

— The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase • Joseph Addison, John Gay, William Sommerville

... thirteenth century. He mentions in his catalogue of authors[56] acertain Bud Periodeutes, who probably about 570 had to inspect the Nestorian communities in Persia and India, and who says that, in addition to other books which he names, "he translated the book 'Qallag and Damnag' from ...

— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... the girl announced. "You are all in. It will be no fun driving the Richard to-day. If you do have to go across, you haven't much chance of making it on time in weather like this. Especially if we have to lag ...

— El Diablo • Brayton Norton

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