Meaning

10 senses
  1. (countable)A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.

  2. (uncountable)Delay; latency.

  3. (Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable)A prisoner, a criminal.

  4. (countable, slang, uncountable)A period of imprisonment.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A method of deciding which player is to start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.

  6. (countable, uncountable)One who lags; that which comes in last.

  7. (countable, uncountable)The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.

  9. (countable, uncountable)A bird, the greylag.

  10. (Ireland, UK, archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

More definitions
  • the act of slowing down or falling behind
  • one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
  • the time between one event, process, or period and another

Examples

59 sentences
  1. I'm still suffering from jet lag.

    ruЯ всё ещё страдаю от смены часовых поясов. — odexed

    deIch leide immer noch am Jetlag. — Zaghawa

  2. Tom is suffering from jet lag.

    deTom leidet am Zeitzonenunterschied. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom is the one who's lagging behind.

  4. I've got a bad case of jet lag.

  5. The most recent report shows that we are lagging behind our competitors.

    ruПоследний доклад показывает, что мы отстаём от конкурентов. — Wezel

Origin

Of unknown origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin.

Of unknown origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin.

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Forms

plural: lags
Singularlag
Plurallags

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
delay:latency
Close in meaning
  • the act of slowing down or falling behind:slowdown
  • one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket:stave
  • the time between one event, process, or period and another:interimmeantimemeanwhile

Word family

23 related words

See also

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