Definitions for lagging

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IPA: /ˈlæg ɪŋ/

Lagging is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in lagging (agggiln).

Definitions for lagging

noun

1. the act of falling or staying behind.
2. the act of covering a boiler, oil tank, etc., with heat-insulating material.
3. the covering formed.
4. the material used.
5. a number of boards or the like joined together side by side to line an excavation.
6. Masonry. a number of lags, taken as a whole.
7. a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
8. a person who lags behind, is the last to arrive, etc.
9. an interval or lapse of time:
10. Mechanics. the amount of retardation of some motion.
11. Electricity. the retardation of one alternating quantity, as current, with respect to another related alternating quantity, as voltage, often expressed in degrees.
12. Marbles, Billiards. the act of lagging.
13. a convict or ex-convict.
14. a period or term of penal servitude; prison sentence.
15. one of the staves or strips that form the periphery of a wooden drum, the casing of a steam cylinder, or the like.
16. Masonry. a crosspiece between ribs in a centering.

adjective

1. lingering; loitering; slow and dragging:

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 lagging

1590-1600; lag¹ + -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for lagging

So I worked on and on, with spurts of fury and periods of lagging.

Then he passed on round to the front of the building with the lagging step of indifference.

The question is whether the banker, after lagging in the polls for months, can pull off a surprise win in the home stretch.

Clearly much more remains to be done, and practice is lagging too far behind the rhetoric.

Polls show it lagging behind the center-left Democratic party and the protest Five Star Movement.

The lagging crowd of listeners paused, breathless, to lose no word.

In this economy, at this time, the federal budget deficit is something of a lagging indicator.

The sea was rolling heavily, and a good many of our ships were lagging.

I could scarcely force my lagging steps, one by one, to carry me.

What is striking, however, is the extent to which you can look at Rubio as a lagging indicator for the Republican Party.