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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : lag |
| Phonetic Transcription : læg |
Definition of lag
Origin :- "fail to keep pace," 1520s, earlier as a noun meaning "last person" (1510s), later also as an adjective (1550s; e.g. lag-mon "last man"), all of uncertain relationship, possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian lagga "go slowly"), or some dialectal version of last, lack, or delay. Related: Lag; lagging. The noun meaning "retardation" is from 1855. First record of lag time is from 1951.
- verb move slowly; delay
- Put on your hat, friend, and follow us, for you lag behind and are late.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- Neither anticipate your years, nor lag child-like behind them.
- Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
- Holes are provided in the Press for mounting by lag screws or bolts.
- Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
- I followed them at first, then began to lag with an odd unwillingness.
- Extract from : « Disowned » by Victor Endersby
- The book was begun in February and finished in April, so the work did not lag.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- It is only when the ways are rough and stony that he is prone to lag and linger.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer » by Jessie Graham Flower
- Something unusual had happened or he would not lag so in coming to her.
- Extract from : « The Secret of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White
- Why should you lag behind the age in this fierce struggle for supremacy?
- Extract from : « The Root of Evil » by Thomas Dixon
- In other words, there was a lag of about forty-eight hours between the two.
- Extract from : « Disturbing Sun » by Robert Shirley Richardson
- After these early successes the Russian operations began to lag.
- Extract from : « A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year » by Edwin Emerson
Synonyms for lag
- be behind
- dally
- dawdle
- decrease
- dillydally
- diminish
- drag
- drag one's feet
- ebb
- fail
- fall off
- falter
- flag
- get no place fast
- hang back
- hobble
- idle
- inch
- inch along
- jelly
- limp
- linger
- loiter
- lose strength
- lounge
- plod
- poke
- procrastinate
- put off
- retard
- saunter
- shuffle
- slacken
- slouch
- slow
- slow up
- stagger
- stay
- straggle
- tail
- tarry
- tool
- trail
- trudge
- wane
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