Lag

Adjective

 * 1) late
 * 2) * 1592, William Shakespeare, King Richard III
 * Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried.

Noun

 * 1)  A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
 * 2) * 2004, May 10. The New Yorker Online,
 * During the Second World War, for instance, the Washington Senators had a starting rotation that included four knuckleball pitchers. But, still, I think that some of that was just a generational lag.
 * 1)  Delay; latency.
 * 2) * 1999, Loyd Case, Building the ultimate game PC
 * Whatever the symptom, lag is a drag. But what causes it? One cause is delays in getting the data from your PC to the game server.
 * 1) * 2001, Patricia M. Wallace, The psychology of the Internet
 * When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.
 * 1) * 2002, Marty Cortinas, Clifford Colby, The Macintosh bible
 * Latency, or lag, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.
 * 1)  a prisoner, a criminal.
 * 2) A minigame of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.

Synonyms

 * latency

Derived terms

 * time lag
 * jet lag

Verb

 * 1) to not keep up (the pace), to fall behind
 * 2) * 1587???, George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer
 * Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost
 * 1) * 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I
 * Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe.
 * 1) * 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts
 * Brown skeletons of leaves that lag / My forest-brook along
 * , The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands
 * While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find.
 * 1) * 2004, &mdash; The New Yorker, 5 April 2004
 * Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan.
 * 1) to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material
 * 2) * c. 1974, Philip Larkin, The Building
 * Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.

Adjectives for Lag
cultural; common; noticeable.

Thesaurus
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

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 卡 (slang/colloquial)


 * Norwegian: forsinkelse,

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 落後, 落后
 * Finnish: jäädä jälkeen
 * French: rester en arrière, être en retard


 * German: zurückbleiben, zurückfallen
 * Japanese: 立ち遅れる
 * Russian: отставать, отстать , опаздывать , опоздать

Derived terms

 * lagging
 * laggard

Anagrams

 * AGL gal, Gal, Gal., GAL
 * GLA

Verb
lag


 * 1) laugh

Etymology
lachen:

Noun

 * 1) layer
 * 2) coat, coating
 * 3) class
 * 4) stratum

Etymology
From lag:.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: lach
 * Homophones: lach

Anagrams

 * alg, gal

Noun

 * 1) layer
 * 2)  what belongs together (company, union)
 * 3) regularity, order
 * 4) skill, capability
 * 5) method, system
 * 6) importance
 * 7) mood
 * 8) design, shape
 * 9) melody

Verb

 * 1) First-person singular indicative past form of liegen.
 * 2) Third-person singular indicative past form of liegen.

Noun

 * 1) layer
 * 2) song

Etymology
From lag:.

Adjective

 * 1) weak

Etymology
From lac: <  <, compare slack: and Latin laxus:.

Noun

 * 1) lake

Synonyms

 * għadira

Noun

 * 1) layer
 * 2) team (group of people)
 * 3) mood

Noun

 * 1)  lake

Etymology
From lacus:.

Adjective

 * 1) weak, feeble

Noun

 * 1) a law; a written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and the appropriate consequences thereof. Laws are usually associated with mores.
 * 2) law; the body of written rules governing a society.
 * 3) a law; a one-sided contract.
 * 4) a law; an observed physical law.
 * 5)  a law; a statement that is true under specified conditions.

Related terms

 * lagens långa arm
 * lagbok
 * lagföra
 * lagstudium

Noun

 * 1)  a water-based solution of sugar, salt and/or other spices; e.g. brine

Related terms

 * saltlag
 * sockerlag
 * ättikslag

Noun

 * 1) a workgroup, a team; group of people which in sports compete together versus another team; or in general, work closely together

Related terms

 * arbetslag
 * lagarbete
 * lagbas
 * lagsport
 * lagspel

Etymology 1
From lagh, which is  lǫg: (alternative spelling: lög:). Cognate with Danish lov: and Norwegian lov:. English law: is borrowed from Norse. Belongs to Old Norse leggja: “to define”.

Etymology 2
From lagher ( lǫgr:) <  <. Cognate with Latin lacus:.

Etymology 3
From lagh ( lag:). Derived from Old Norse leggja: “to lay” or liggja: “to lie”.