Definition of "lag" in 英语

adjective

1. Late.

2. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.

3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

noun

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

2. (uncountable) Delay; latency.

3. (UK, Ireland, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

4. (UK, Ireland, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.

5. (slang) A period of imprisonment.

6. (snooker) 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.

7. One who lags; that which comes in last.

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

9. 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.

10. (US, carpentry) Clipping of lag screw.

11. A bird, the greylag.

verb

1. To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.

   • 1717, 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.

2. To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.

3. (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.

   • My phone is starting to lag.

4. (UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.

5. (UK, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.

6. (transitive) To slacken

   • Interest in the scandal will never lag.