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. "i shall not lag behind." --milton.

   syn: to loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.
        1913 webster
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lagged lagging 

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.
      1913 webster

            came too lag to see him buried.       --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag
      end. "the lag end of my life." --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. obs. "lag
      souls." --dryden.
      1913 webster

lag \lag\, n.
   1. one who lags; that which comes in last. obs. "the lag of
      all the flock." --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. the fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
      1913 webster

            the common lag of people.             --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. the amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a
      steam engine, in opening or closing.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   5. zool. see graylag.
      1913 webster

   6. 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.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   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.
      1913 webster
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graylag lag of the tide priming lag screw 

lag \lag\, v. t.
   1. to cause to lag; to slacken. obs. "to lag his flight."
      --heywood.
      1913 webster

   2. mach. to cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with
      lags. see lag, n., 4.
      1913 webster
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lag 

lag \lag\, n.
   one transported for a crime. slang, eng.
   1913 webster

lag \lag\, v. t.
   to transport for crime. slang, eng.
   1913 webster

         she lags us if we poach.                 --de quincey.
   1913 webster

lag
     n 1: the act of slowing down or falling behind syn: slowdown,
          retardation
     2: the time between one event, process, or period and another
        syn: interim
     3: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a
        barrel or bucket syn: stave
     v 1: hang back or fall behind in movement, progress,
          development, etc. syn: dawdle, fall back, fall
          behind
     2: 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" syn: imprison, incarcerate,
         immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put
        away, remand
     3: throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
     4: cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes"
     also: lagging, lagged
see also:
slowdown retardation interim stave dawdle fall back 
fall behind imprison incarcerate immure put behind bars 
jail jug gaol put away remand 
lagging lagged 

160 moby thesaurus words for "lag":
   afterthought, antedate, arrest, be found wanting, bind, block,
   blockage, bureaucratic delay, cast out, check, closing, collapse,
   come short, con, concluding, confine, dalliance, dally, dallying,
   dawdle, dawdling, dead time, deceleration, decline, delay,
   delayage, delayed reaction, deport, detain, detention, diddle,
   dilatoriness, dillydally, dillydallying, displace, doodle,
   double take, drag, dragging, ease-off, ease-up, eventual, exile,
   expatriate, expel, fail, fall away, fall behind, fall short,
   falter, final, flag, flagging, foredate, gain, get behind,
   goof off, halt, hang back, hang-up, hinder, hindmost, hindrance,
   hold back, hold up, holdup, hysteresis, impede, interim, jailbird,
   jam, keep back, lack, lagging, latest, latter, letdown, letup,
   linger, linger behind, lingering, logjam, loiter, loitering,
   lollygag, lollygagging, lose ground, loser, make late,
   minus acceleration, misdate, mistime, moratorium, not answer,
   not hack it, not make it, not make out, not measure up,
   not stretch, not suffice, obstruct, obstruction, output lag,
   paperasserie, pause, piddle, poke, postdate, process lag,
   procrastinate, procrastination, put off, red tape, red-tapeism,
   red-tapery, relegate, reprieve, respite, retard, retardance,
   retardation, retardment, run short, setback, shilly-shally,
   shilly-shallying, slack-up, slacken, slackening, slow, slow down,
   slow-up, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowness, slowup, slump,
   stay, stay of execution, stop, stop short, stoppage, straggle,
   suspension, tarry, tarrying, terminal, throughput, tie-up,
   time constants, time lag, time lead, trail, trail behind,
   transport, ultimate, wait, want, waste time

lag
     logical address group ion
     
     

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.


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netlag 

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