lag
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lag (comparative lagger, superlative laggest) (Cleanup of this inflection is being sought) lagger
- late
- 1592, William Shakespeare, King Richard III
- Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, King Richard III
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lag (countable and uncountable; plural lags)
- (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
- 2004, May 10. The New Yorker Online,
- 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.
- 2004, May 10. The New Yorker Online,
- (uncountable) Delay; latency.
- 1999, Loyd Case, Building the ultimate game PC
- 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.
- 2001, Patricia M. Wallace, The psychology of the Internet
- When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.
- 2002, Marty Cortinas, Clifford Colby, The Macintosh bible
- Latency, or lag, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.
- 1999, Loyd Case, Building the ultimate game PC
- (UK, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
- A minigame of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
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In casual use, lag and latency are used synonymously for “delay between initiating an action and the effect”, with lag more casual. In formal use, latency is the technical term, while lag is used when latency is greater than usual, particularly in internet gaming.
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- (delay): latency
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(Internet) bad connection, loss of connection
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lag (third-person singular simple present lags, present participle lagging, simple past and past participle lagged)
- to not keep up (the pace), to fall behind
- 1587??? (Can we date this quote?), George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer
- Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I
- Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts
- Brown skeletons of leaves that lag / My forest-brook along
- (Can we date this quote?), The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands
- While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find.
- 2004, — The New Yorker, 5 April 2004
- Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan.
- 1587??? (Can we date this quote?), George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer
- to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material
- c. 1974, Philip Larkin, The Building
- Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.
- c. 1974, Philip Larkin, The Building
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to fall behind
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From Dutch lachen.
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lag (past participle gelag)
- to laugh
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From Old Norse lag.
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- IPA: /laːɡ/, [læːˀj], [læjˀ]
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lag n. (singular definite laget, plural indefinite lag)
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Inflection of lag
| neuter gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative, dative and accusative | lag | laget | lag | lagene |
| genitive | lags | lagets | lags | lagenes |
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lag
- singular past indicative of liggen.
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- IPA: [lɛaː]
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lag n.
- layer
- (in compounds) what belongs together (company, union)
- regularity, order
- skill, capability
- method, system
- importance
- mood
- design, shape
- melody
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what belongs together
order
- í lagi - in order, all right, ok
skill
importance
mood
- tað er einki lag á honum - he is in a bad mood
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| n6 | Singular | Plural | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | lag | lagið | løg | løgini |
| Accusative | lag | lagið | løg | løgini |
| Dative | lag(i) | lag(i)num | løgum | løgunum |
| Genitive | lags | lagsins | laga | laganna |
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lag
- First-person singular indicative past form of liegen.
- Third-person singular indicative past form of liegen.
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lag
- Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌲
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From Old Norse lag.
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lag n.
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[edit] Irish
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From Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggo-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-, compare slack and Latin laxus (“slack”).
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lag
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lag m.
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- għadira f.
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lag n.
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From Latin lacus.
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lag m. (plural lags)
- (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) lake
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lag
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From Old Swedish lagh, which is Old Norse lǫg (alternative spelling: lög). Cognate with Danish lov and Norwegian lov. English law is borrowed from Norse. Belongs to Old Norse leggja “to define”.
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lag c.
- a law; a written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and the appropriate consequences thereof. Laws are usually associated with mores.
- law; the body of written rules governing a society.
- a law; a one-sided contract.
- a law; an observed physical law.
- (mathematics) a law; a statement that is true under specified conditions.
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Declension of lag
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- In the expression vara någon till lags (“to be of service to someone”), this is an ancient genitive controlled by the preposition till (“to”)
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From Old Swedish lagher (Old Norse lǫgr), from Proto-Germanic *laguz, from Proto-Indo-European *lakw-. Cognate with Latin lacus.
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lag c.
- (cooking) a water-based solution of sugar, salt and/or other spices; e.g. brine
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From Old Swedish lagh (Old Norse lag). Derived from Old Norse leggja “to lay” or liggja “to lie”.
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lag n.
- a workgroup, a team; group of people which in sports compete together versus another team; or in general, work closely together
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