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Lag   /læg/   Listen
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



... skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... renouncing cleane The faith they haue in Tennis and tall Stockings, Short blistred Breeches, and those types of Trauell; And vnderstand againe like honest men, Or pack to their old Playfellowes; there, I take it, They may Cum Priuilegio, wee away The lag end of their lewdnesse, ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... the buggy when the girl finished. The elder woman bade the young people good night, and turned and went into the yard and stood a moment looking at the stars before going into her lonely house. The lovers let the tired horses lag up the hill, and as they turned into Lincoln Avenue the girl was saying: "A year's so long, Bob,—so long. And you'll be away, and I'm afraid." He tried to reassure her; but she protested: "You are ...
— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White
... save on one memorable occasion when a band of mischievous pages had set upon him, carried him to the scaffold and nailed his enormous ears to the beam. Now, reassured, burning with delight, the jester spurred presumptuously forward, no longer feeling bound to lag in ...
— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham
... as a Christian, if no more is meant by being born again than this, the speaker must have had the strongest taste in metaphors of any teacher in verse or prose on record, Jacob Behmen himself not excepted. The very Alchemists lag behind. Pity, however, that our Barrister has not shown us how this plain and obvious business of Baptism agrees with ver. 8. of the same chapter: 'The wind bloweth where it listeth', &c. Now if this does not express a visitation of the mind by a somewhat not in the own ...
— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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