Lag

From Fresh Dictionary

See also låg

Contents 1 English 1.1 Adjective 1.1.1 Quotations 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Quotations 1.2.2 Related terms 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Quotations 1.4 Anagrams 1.5 Derived words 1.6 See also 2 Afrikaans 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Verb 3 Danish 3.1 Noun 4 German 4.1 Verb form 5 Irish 5.1 Adjective 6 Swedish 6.1 Noun 6.1.1 Inflections 6.1.2 See also 6.2 Noun 6.2.1 Inflections 6.2.2 See also

English

Adjective

lag

1. late

Quotations

• 1592: Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried. — William Shakespeare, King Richard III

Noun

Lag (plural Lags)

1. a gap; an interval created by something not keeping up
2. (English slang) a prisoner, a criminal.

Quotations

• 2004: 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. — The New Yorker Online, 10 May 2004

Related terms

• time lag
• jet lag

Verb

lag

1. to not keep up (the pace), to fall behind
2. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material

Quotations

to fail to keep up

• 1587???: Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost — George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer

• 1596: Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe. — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I

• 1798: Brown skeletons of leaves that lag / My forest-brook along — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts, 1798

Construction: to lag behind

• ???: While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find. — The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands

• 2004: Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan. — The New Yorker, 5 April 2004

to cover with felt strips

• 1974???: Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free. — Philip Larkin, The Building

Anagrams

• gal

Derived words

• lagging
• laggard

See also

• tardy

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Afrikaans

Etymology

Dutch lachen

Verb

lag

1. laugh

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Danish

Noun

lag

1. layer

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German

Verb form

lag

1. past of liegen

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Irish

Adjective

lag

1. weak

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Swedish

Noun

lag

1. law; a written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and the appropriate consequences thereof. Laws are usually associated with mores.
2. law; the body of written rules governing a society.
3. law; a one-sided contract.
4. law; an observed physical law.
5. (mathematics) law; a statement that is true under specified conditions.

Inflections

Inflections of lag	Common
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite form	Definite form	Indefinite form	Definite form
Nominative	lag	lagen	lagar	lagarna
Genitive	lags	lagens	lagars	lagarnas

See also

• lagens lÃ¥nga arm
• lagbok
• lagföra

Noun

lag

1. team; group of people which in sports compete together versus another team; or in general, work closely together

Inflections

Inflections of lag	Neuter
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite form	Definite form	Indefinite form	Definite form
Nominative	lag	laget	lag	lagen
Genitive	lags	lagets	lags	lagens

See also

• lagarbete
• lagsport
• lagspel

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