English-Thai Dictionary

lag

VI ค่อยๆ  อ่อนล้า ลง  ค่อยๆ  อ่อนแรง  flag koi-koi-on-la-long

 

lag

VI ล้าหลัง  เคลื่อนไหว ช้า  พัฒนา อย่าง เชื่องช้า  loiter linger delay la-lang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LAG

a.[This word belongs to the root of slack, slow, sluggish, languish, long; Gr. See the Verb. ] 1. Coming after or behind; slow; sluggish; tardy.
2. Last; long delayed; as the lag end.
[This adjective is not now in use. ]

 

LAG

n. 1. The lowest class; the rump; the fag end.
2. He that comes behind. [Not in use. ]

 

LAG

v.i.[Eng. to flag, and flacceo, langueo, to languish, etc. The sense is to extend or draw out, or to become lax or loose. ] To walk or move slowly; to loiter; to stay behind.
I shall not lag behind.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LAG

Lag, a. Etym: [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. ] Came too lag to see him buried. Shak.

 

2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. "The lag end of my life. " Shak.

 

3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs. ] "Lag souls." Dryden.

 

LAG

LAG Lag, n.

 

1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs. ] "The lag of all the flock. " Pope.

 

2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. The common lag of people. Shak.

 

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

 

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.

 

5. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: See Graylag. 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.

 

LAG

Lag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lagging. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

LAG

LAG Lag, v. t.

 

1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs. ] "To lag his flight. " Heywood.

 

2. (Mach. )

 

Defn: To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.

 

LAG

LAG Lag, n.

 

Defn: One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng. ]

 

LAG

LAG Lag, v. t.

 

Defn: To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng. ] She lags us if we poach. De Quincey.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

lag

lag 1 |lag læɡ | ▶verb ( lags, lagging , lagged ) [ no obj. ] 1 fall behind in movement, progress, or development; not keep pace with another or others: they stopped to wait for one of the children who was lagging behind . 2 [ no obj. ] Billiards determine the order of play by striking the cue ball from balk to rebound off the top cushion, first stroke going to the player whose ball comes to rest nearer the bottom cushion. ▶noun 1 (also time lag ) a period of time between one event or phenomenon and another: there was a time lag between the commission of the crime and its reporting to the police. 2 Physics a retardation in an electric current or movement. DERIVATIVES lag ger noun ORIGIN early 16th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘hindmost person (in a game, race, etc. ),’ also ‘dregs ’): related to the dialect adjective lag (perhaps from a fanciful distortion of last 1, or of Scandinavian origin: compare with Norwegian dialect lagga ‘go slowly ’).

 

lag

lag 2 |læɡ lag | ▶verb ( lags, lagging , lagged ) [ with obj. ] (usu. be lagged ) enclose or cover (a boiler, pipes, etc. ) with material that provides heat insulation: (as adj. lagged ) : a lagged hot-water tank. ▶noun the non-heat-conducting cover of a boiler, pipes, etc. ; lagging. • a piece of this. DERIVATIVES lag ger noun ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from earlier lag ‘piece of insulating cover. ’

 

lag

lag 3 |læɡ lag |Brit. informal ▶noun a person who has been frequently convicted and sent to prison: both old lags were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. ▶verb ( lags, lagging , lagged ) [ with obj. ] archaic arrest or send to prison. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘carry off, steal ’): of unknown origin. Current senses date from the 19th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

lag

lag 1 |lag | ▶verb ( lags, lagging, lagged ) [ no obj. ] 1 fail to keep up with another or others in movement or development: they waited for Tim who was lagging behind . 2 N. Amer. another term for string ( sense 6 of the verb ). ▶noun 1 (also time lag ) a period of time between one event and another: a time lag between infection and symptoms. 2 Physics a retardation in an electric current or movement. DERIVATIVES lagger noun ORIGIN early 16th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘hindmost person in a game, race, etc. ’, also ‘dregs ’): related to the dialect adjective lag (perhaps from a fanciful distortion of last 1, or of Scandinavian origin: compare with Norwegian dialect lagga ‘go slowly ’).

 

lag

lag 2 |lag | ▶verb ( lags, lagging, lagged ) [ with obj. ] enclose or cover (a boiler, pipes, etc. ) with material that provides heat insulation. DERIVATIVES lagger noun ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from earlier lag ‘piece of insulating cover ’.

 

lag

lag 3 |lag |Brit. informal ▶noun a person who has been frequently convicted and sent to prison: both old lags were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. ▶verb ( lags, lagging, lagged ) [ with obj. ] archaic arrest or send to prison. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘carry off, steal ’): of unknown origin. Current senses date from the 19th cent.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

lag

lag verb I'm sorry to be lagging behind : fall behind, straggle, fall back, trail (behind ), hang back, not keep pace, bring up the rear; dawdle, dilly-dally. ANTONYMS keep up. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See loiter . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

lag

lag verb Elizabeth had not walked over to the villa with the other guests, but lagged behind: fall behind, straggle, fall back, trail (behind ), linger, dally, dawdle, hang back, delay, move slowly, loiter, drag one's feet, take one's time, not keep pace, idle, dither, saunter, bring up the rear; informal dilly-dally, shilly-shally; archaic or literary tarry. ANTONYMS lead; keep up; hurry.

 

Duden Dictionary

lag

lag liegen |l a g |

 

Lag

Lag Substantiv, maskulin besonders Wirtschaft , der |læg |der Lag; Genitiv: des Lag [s ], Plural: die Lags englisch lag, eigentlich = das Zurückbleiben Verzögerung zwischen dem Eintritt eines Ereignisses und seinen Folgen

 

LAG

LAG Abkürzung Abkürzung für: Lastenausgleichsgesetz

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

lag

lag 1 /læɡ /動詞 ～s ; ～ged ; ～ging 自動詞 1 のろのろ歩く ; ぐずぐずする (linger ); 〈人 事が 〉遅れる (behind ), 下回る ; «…で /…に » ついて行けない «in /behind » ▸ lag behind at school 学業に遅れる 2 ｟米 ｠(ビリヤードで順番を決めるために )球を突く .3 〈興味などが 〉弱まる, 薄れる .他動詞 1 …より遅い ; …を遅らせる .2 〈球やコイン 〉を投げる .名詞 U C 1 遅れること, 遅延 ; 時間のずれ ; 遅れる人 (→time lag , jet lag ).2 (電流 運動などの )遅滞 (量 ).3 ｟米 ｠(ビリヤードで順番を決めるために )球を突くこと .l á g ger 名詞 C 遅れる人 [もの ]; 〘経 〙遅行指標 〘景気の変動に遅れる経済指標 〙.

 

lag

lag 2 名詞 C ｟英 くだけて ｠罪人 ; 前科者 ; 常習犯 .動詞 ～s ; ～ged ; ～ging 他動詞 …を投獄する .

 

lag

lag 3 動詞 ～s ; ～ged ; ～ging 他動詞 ｟主に英 ｠〈パイプ 水槽など 〉を (断熱材で )覆う .名詞 (!主に次の複合語で ) .～́ b ò lt ラグボルト .～́ scr è w ラグネジ .