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Meaning of LAG in English

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

Use in sentences of LAG

    Meaning of LAG in English

    • Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
    • Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
    • Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
    • One who lags; that which comes in last.
    • The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
    • The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
    • 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.
    • See Graylag.
    • To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
    • To cause to lag; to slacken.
    • To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
    • One transported for a crime.
    • To transport for crime.

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