Definitions for lag

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IPA: /læg/

Lag is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in lag (agl).

Definitions for lag

noun

1. a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
2. a person who lags behind, is the last to arrive, etc.
3. an interval or lapse of time:
4. Mechanics. the amount of retardation of some motion.
5. Electricity. the retardation of one alternating quantity, as current, with respect to another related alternating quantity, as voltage, often expressed in degrees.
6. Marbles, Billiards. the act of lagging.
7. a convict or ex-convict.
8. a period or term of penal servitude; prison sentence.
9. one of the staves or strips that form the periphery of a wooden drum, the casing of a steam cylinder, or the like.
10. Masonry. a crosspiece between ribs in a centering.

verb (used with object)

1. to fail to keep up with:
2. Obsolete. to cause to lag.
3. to send to penal servitude; imprison.
4. to line or cover (an excavation) with lagging.
5. to cover with insulation, as a steam boiler, to prevent radiation of heat.

verb (used without object)

1. to fail to maintain a desired pace or to keep up; fall or stay behind:
2. to move or develop slowly, as toward a goal or objective, or in relation to an associated factor (often followed by behind):
3. to delay or fail in reaching full development:
4. to hang back; linger; delay:
5. to decrease, wane, or flag gradually, as in intensity:
6. Marbles. to throw one's shooting marble toward a line (lag line) on the ground in order to decide on the order of play.
7. Billiards, Pool. string (def 17b).

Origin of lag

1505-15; Scandinavian: compare Norwegian lagga to go slowly

Examples for lag

But outside Washington spin rooms, a question emerges: is a 1,000-day lag since the last budget such a terrible thing?

Put on your hat, friend, and follow us, for you lag behind and are late.

There was some lag time in the middle because of Hurricane Iniki.

The book was begun in February and finished in April, so the work did not lag.

Neither anticipate your years, nor lag child-like behind them.

Holes are provided in the Press for mounting by lag screws or bolts.

I followed them at first, then began to lag with an odd unwillingness.

The lag in jobs has been matched by a lack of new investments.

Women of color report median incomes that lag even further behind.

Why does the U.S. lag behind our peers when it comes to educating our students?