In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his familyās pot filled with coffee.
LAG
slowdown, lag, retardation
(noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind
stave, lag
(noun) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag
(noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another; āmeanwhile the socialists are running the governmentā
lag
(verb) cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; ālag pipesā
lag
(verb) throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind
(verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
(verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; āThe suspects were imprisoned without trialā; āthe murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his lifeā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
LAG (comparative more LAG, superlative most LAG)
(poker) Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
Antonyms
• TAG (tight-aggressive)
Anagrams
• AGL, ALG, Alg., GAL, GLA, Gal, Gal., LGA, gal, gal., Ī¼Gal
Etymology
Adjective
lag
late
(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Noun
lag (countable and uncountable, plural lags)
(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
(uncountable) Delay; latency.
(British, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
(British, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
(snooker) A method of deciding which player shall 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.
One who lags; that which comes in last.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
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.
A bird, the greylag.
Usage notes
In casual use, lag and latency are used synonymously for "time delay between initiating an action and the effect", with lag being more casual. In formal use, latency is the technical term, while lag is used when latency is greater than usual, particularly in internet gaming. When used as a comparative to refer to the distance between moving objects lag refers to a moving object that has not yet reached the reference object position, whether linear or rotational. The term latency is not used in technical jargon for linear or rotational distance. The neutral term displacement can be used ambiguously and may refer to the distance between objects without indicating direction. In this use, lag, lags, and lagging are the complements of lead, leads, and leading. For example, For any AC power system, at all reactive loads, the current waveform has a phase displacement or power factor to the voltage. An inductive load has a lagging power factor, while a capacitive load has a leading PF.
Synonyms
• (delay): latency
Verb
lag (third-person singular simple present lags, present participle lagging, simple past and past participle lagged)
to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer)
(UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
Anagrams
• AGL, ALG, Alg., GAL, GLA, Gal, Gal., LGA, gal, gal., Ī¼Gal
Source: Wiktionary
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, 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. (Zoƶl.)
Definition: 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, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lagging.]
Definition: 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, v. t.
1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] "To lag his flight." Heywood.
2. (Mach.)
Definition: To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
Lag, n.
Definition: One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]
Lag, v. t.
Definition: To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.] She lags us if we poach. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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