Lag : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Lag	by the DICT Development Group
10 results for Lag
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lag n the act of slowing down or falling behind [syn: slowdown, lag, retardation] the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government" Synonym(s): interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket Synonym(s): stave, lag v hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. Synonym(s): lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind 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" Synonym(s): imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lag \Lag\, a. [Of Celtic origin: cf. Gael. & Ir. lagweak, feeble, faint, W. llag, llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; prob. akin to E. lax, languid.] 1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [Obs.] Came too lag to see him buried. --Shak. 2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. [bd]The lag end of my life.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lag \Lag\, v. t. 1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] [bd]To lag his flight.[b8] --Heywood. 2. (Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See {Lag}, n., 4.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lag \Lag\, n. One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lag \Lag\, v. t. To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.] She lags us if we poach. --De Quincey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lag \Lag\, n. 1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] [bd]The lag of all the flock.[b8] --Pope. 2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. The common lag of people. --Shak. 3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing. 4. 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. 5. (Zo[94]l.) See {Graylag}. {Lag of the tide}, the interval by which the time of high water falls behind the mean time, in the first and third quarters of the moon; -- opposed to {priming} of the tide, or the acceleration of the time of high water, in the second and fourth quarters; depending on the relative positions of the sun and moon. {Lag screw}, an iron bolt with a square head, a sharp-edged thread, and a sharp point, adapted for screwing into wood; a screw for fastening lags.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lag \Lag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lagging}.] To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. [bd]I shall not lag behind.[b8] --Milton. Syn: To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lag \Lag\, n. The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in an alternating circuit behind the impressed electro-motive force which produced it.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
lag n. [MUD, IRC; very common] When used without qualification this is synomous with {netlag}. Curiously, people will often complain "I'm really lagged" when in fact it is their server or network connection that is lagging.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
lag {netlag}