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Lag

/læɡ/

Other words from lag's letters

noun

  1. A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
  2. Delay; latency.
  3. One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
  4. A prisoner, a criminal.
  5. 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.
  6. One who lags; that which comes in last.
  7. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
  8. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially 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.
  9. A bird, the greylag.

Synonyms: latency

verb

  1. To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
  2. To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer)
  3. To transport as a punishment for crime.
  4. To cause to lag; to slacken.

adjective

  1. Late
  2. Last; long-delayed.
  3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

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Lag is a 3-meaning word in English. Shorter words have fewer anagrams.

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