lag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: lags
Etymology: Probably North Germanic origin.
Senses: examples: text: Although this work is now presented to the world at large, people who read through it before publication severally raised some issues that should be addressed. These resolve around the lag between the field research and the publication of the monograph, a period of rather more than two decades; the use or non-use of various academic forms of terminology, frames of reference, modes of analysis, or "theoretical paradigms"; and my use of the present tense to describe a place that is most certainly not that way now.
ref: 1995, Donald R. DeGlopper, “Introduction”, in Lukang: Commerce and Community in a Chinese City, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:
text: 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.
ref: 2004 May 10, The New Yorker Online,:
glosses: A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
examples: text: Whatever the symptom, lag is a drag. But what causes it? One cause is delays in getting the data from your PC to the game server.
ref: 1999, Loyd Case, Building the ultimate game PC:
text: When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.
ref: 2001, Patricia M. Wallace, The psychology of the Internet:
text: Latency, or lag, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.
ref: 2002, Marty Cortinas, Clifford Colby, The Macintosh bible:
glosses: Delay; latency.
glosses: One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
examples: text: On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose that an old lag like myself would have been getting used to it by now.
ref: 1934, P. G. Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves:
text: He sat with his great head tipped forward, scowling with a lag's sullenness, and I swear he had closed off his hearing with his thinking and hadn't heard us coming. 'Father,' said Pym.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: A prisoner, a criminal.
examples: text: I wasn't scared any more; the second lag wasn't easy, but I wasn't really scared of anything. […] So in my later lags, when I walked into prison everyone had heard about me.
ref: 2017, Anna Leask, Behind Bars: Real-life stories from inside New Zealand's prisons:
glosses: A period of imprisonment.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: A method of deciding which player is to 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.
examples: text: the lag of all the flock
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book IX”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 226, line 526:
glosses: One who lags; that which comes in last.
examples: text: The reſt of your Fees, O Gods, the Senators of Athens, together with the common lagge of People, what is amiſſe in them, you Gods, make ſuteable for deſtruction.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi], page 89, column 2:
glosses: The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
glosses: 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.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Clipping of lag screw.
glosses: A bird, the greylag.
Synonyms: sense: delay
word: latency
Derived terms: colonial lag
cross-lag
flash-lag effect
flash-lag illusion
inside lag
jet lag
lagfest
laggard
lagger
lagging jacket
laglast
lag machine
lagometer
lag pursuit
lag screw
lag time
lagtime
lead-lag
lightspeed lag
netlag
old lag
phenotypic lag
time lag
turbo lag