lag
Definitions of lag
a. - Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
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a. - Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
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a. - Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
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n. - One who lags; that which comes in last.
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n. - The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
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n. - The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
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n. - 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.
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n. - See Graylag.
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v. i. - To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
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v. t. - To cause to lag; to slacken.
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v. t. - To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
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n. - One transported for a crime.
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v. t. - To transport for crime.
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n. - 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.
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The word "lag" uses 3 letters: A G L.
Direct anagrams of lag:
gal
Words formed by adding one letter before or after lag (in bold), or to agl in any order:
a - alga gala c - clag d - glad e - egal gale f - flag i - glia l - gall n - lang o - gaol goal s - gals lags slag y - agly
Shorter words found within lag:
ag al la
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