English Dictionary

lag

/læɡ/

noun

(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency. / (uncountable) Delay; latency. / (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

There is a lag between pressing the button and the screen responding.

意味（1）

(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.

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.

意味（2）

(uncountable) Delay; latency.

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.

意味（3）

(Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

意味（4）

(Britain, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.

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.

意味（5）

(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.

意味（6）

One who lags; that which comes in last.

the lag of all the flock

意味（7）

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

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.

意味（8）

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.

意味（9）

A bird, the greylag.