How to pronounce “lag”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Late.
• (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
• Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
• [Noun]
• (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
• (uncountable) Delay; latency.
• (UK, Ireland, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
• (UK, Ireland, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
• (slang) A period of imprisonment.
• (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.
• One who lags; that which comes in last.
• The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
• 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.
• (US, carpentry) Clipping of lag screw.
• A bird, the greylag.
• [Verb]
• To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
• To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
• (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
• (UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
• (UK, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.
• (transitive) To slacken

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