Lag is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LAG in dictionary:

VERB:
• to fall behind
• fail to keep up with another or others in movement or development
• enclose or cover (a boiler, pipes, etc.) with material that provides heat insulation
• arrest or send to prison
• go too slowly, fall behind
• To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
• To cause to lag; to slacken.
• To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
• To transport for crime.
• hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
• throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
• cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
NOUN:
• a period of time between one event and another
• a retardation in an electric current or movement.
• a person who has been frequently convicted and sent to prison
• One who lags; that which comes in last.
• The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
• The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
• 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.
• See Graylag.
• One transported for a crime.
• the act of slowing down or falling behind
• the time between one event, process, or period and another
• one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
• delay between events
ADJECTIVE:
• Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
• Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
• Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to stay or fall behind

Words related to LAG

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Words that contain LAG

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How to use LAG in a sentence

• If the teacher has gained this, the children will not lag behind.
• In spite of my will, all of these keen desires of mine to know everything lag and fail often, and I catch myself drifting.
• Now, however, when taken for a duty-walk, he still barks a little at the outset, but thereafter begins at once to lag, and is found in an armchair when the party returns.
• If the belt is loose, the governor will lag while the engine will run away.
• So, then, it was all very likely! Having set out on my race of suspecting, my steeds did not lag.
• Martin Conwell, progressive, aggressive, was not a man to let his deeds lag behind his words.
• But hasten, now, for it would ill-become the wife of my bosom to lag in attendance on the lecture.
• There were no cases in which a lag detected in the earlier part of the verse was not also detected in the later part.
• One subject falsely located a lag in the first of the verse four times.
• The maximum lag possible without breaking the unity of the verse was determined for the earlier and later parts of the verse.
• When this was unbroken it was the unanimous testimony of the subjects, corroborated by their unconscious movements, that there was a feeling of tension during the lag.
• Mary V had let her steps lag a little, knowing that Johnny must overtake her presently unless he turned short around and went the other way, which would not be like Johnny.
• Presently they slowed, and later Bill was seen to lag behind.
• The fact is that metaphysics does not lag behind because of our lack of material to work with.
• Ceremonial and doctrine may indeed be at variance, for the latter may lag behind the former and vice versa, but they are never subject to entirely different conditions.
• Inevitably they lag behind the basic research discoveries needed to make them possible, and often the discoveries are slow to be put to work after they are made.
• This problem can best be solved by the establishment of special classes in the public schools for all who lag more than one year behind.
• For her body kept pace with the progress of her soul, as if out of rivalry and jealousy unwilling to lag behind it, in the acquisition of ornaments and graces.
• There are delightful nooks and corners about this celebrated building in which lovers can lag behind.
• He may lag behind or go in front, he may travel to the right or to the left, he may be better or worse, but his fate is the same.
• They are essential as an incentive to pupils who are inclined to let their work lag.
• He was told that the slightest inclination on his part to lag behind on the march before them, or in any way to make their trail plainer, would be the signal for his death.
• The handles are rounded at the ends and are fastened to the board with lag screws or bolts.
• The iron is held in position by means of the straps of metal C, C, which are bent over the shaft tightly and grip the board base with set or lag screws as shown.
• I had been tired for a long time and now I began to limp and lag.
• As their horses were beginning to lag, I checked Brigham to give him an opportunity to get a few extra breaths.
• Others are models, and it is not for lack of example that many lag behind.
• A group of boys, some time ago, were playing games in a church basement, and the time began to lag just a little.
• They will lag behind the rest of the army, then there shalt thou fall upon them with all thy mighty men.
• If I have undertaken any trust or task, I must not lag nor weaken nor grow careless, but faithfully see it through to the end.
• At times he would lag a little, and then at other times appear to be accelerated.

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