Meaning of Lag | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
   countable
2. Delay; latency.
   uncountable
3. One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
   Ireland, UK, archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
4. A prisoner, a criminal.
   Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable
5. A period of imprisonment.
   countable, slang, uncountable
6. 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.
   countable, uncountable
7. One who lags; that which comes in last.
   countable, uncountable
8. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
   countable, uncountable
9. 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.
   countable, uncountable
10. Clipping of lag screw.
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
11. A bird, the greylag.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Although this work⟳ is now presented to the world at large, people who read⟳ through it before publication severally raised some issues that should be addressed. These resolve⟳ around the lag between the field research⟳ and the publication of the monograph, a period of rather more than two decades; the use⟳ or non-use of various academic forms of terminology, frames of reference, modes of analysis, or "theoretical paradigms"; and my use⟳ of the present⟳ tense to describe⟳ a place⟳ that is most certainly not that way now.”

“During the Second World War, for instance, the Washington Senators had a starting rotation that included four knuckleball pitchers. But, still, I think⟳ that some of that was just a generational lag.”

“Whatever the symptom, lag is a drag⟳. But what causes it? One cause is delays in getting the data from your PC to the game server.”

“When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.”

“Latency, or lag, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.”

“On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose⟳ that an old lag like⟳ myself would have⟳ been getting used to it by now.”

“He sat with his great head tipped forward⟳, scowling with a lag's sullenness, and I swear⟳ he had closed off his hearing with his thinking and hadn't heard us coming. 'Father,' said Pym.”

“I wasn't scared any more; the second lag wasn't easy, but I wasn't really scared of anything. […] So in my later lags, when I walked into prison everyone had heard about me.”

“the lag of all the flock”

“The reſt of your Fees, O Gods, the Senators of Athens, together with the common lagge of People, what is amiſſe in them, you Gods, make⟳ ſuteable for deſtruction.”

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