to lag

Definition of to lag in English English dictionary: late
Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried.; to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material
Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.; bad connection, loss of connection, causing a delay
Latency, or lag, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.; a prisoner, a criminal; A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency
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.; 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; Delay; latency; The action in which a computer or server slows or halts in response to a poor connection; {n} the lowest class, fagend, one who is last; {v} to loiter, stay behind, move slowly; {a} last, coming behind, slow, sluggish, idle; Variously defined as time from beginning (or center of mass) of rainfall to peak (or center of mass) of runoff (After Am Soc Civil Engineers, 1949, p 106 ); A time lag or a lag of a particular length of time is a period of time between one event and another related event. There's a time lag between infection with HIV and developing AIDS Price rises have matched rises in the money supply with a lag of two or three months; One transported for a crime; term used to denote the momentary time of contact of the printing screen to substrate immediately after the printing stroke; One who lags; that which comes in last; 1 A time delay between the output of a signal and the response of the instrument to which the signal is sent 2 A time relationship between two waveforms where a fixed reference point on one wave occurs after the same point of the reference wave; Last; long-delayed; obsolete, except in the phrase lag end; The delay between two events An electrical current whose phasing is behind the phasing of a voltage, for example, is said to lag; See Lag, n; Because a BBS is interactive and the Internet can get congested, sometimes you will experience delays when you enter a command and nothing seems to happen It it most likely that the command has been sent, however either it was delayed on its way to the BBS, or the response (i e the change in the information on the screen) has been delayed on its way to you In both cases, a little bit of patience usually works and the result should appear shortly Sometimes however, the lag can be so bad that either your connection to the BBS gets dropped, or you find it too difficult to continue The best thing in these situations is to log off and try again later; Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior; To cause to lag; to slacken; {f} fall behind, fail to keep up with the established pace, straggle; develop slowly; linger, tarry; slacken, flag, weaken; imprison (British Slang); insulate (from heat); to not keep up (the pace), to fall behind; The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class; a gap; an interval created by something not keeping up; especially Mach; The time delay between the output signal and the response time of the receiver of the signal; Payment of a financial obligation later than is expected or required, as in lead and lag Also, the number of periods that an independent variable in a regression model is ``held back'' in order to predict the dependent variable; The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in an alternating circuit behind the impressed electro-motive force which produced it; In the context of leads and lags, payment of a financial obligation later than is expected or required; To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter; lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"; (Statistics) The difference in time units of a series value and a previous series value In time series analysis, the lag typically represents the period of time between the change in the independent or predictor (Exogenous) variable and its strongest (most significant) effect on the dependent or predicted (Endogenous) variable Also see Lead (Time); cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes"; If one thing or person lags behind another thing or person, their progress is slower than that of the other. Britain still lags behind most of Europe in its provisions for women who want time off to have babies The restructuring of the pattern of consumption in Britain also lagged behind He now lags 10 points behind the champion A poll for the Observer showed Labour on 39 per cent with the Tories lagging a point behind Hague was lagging badly in the polls; cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes" throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc; {i} slowness; lateness; delay, lingering; (Computers) lapse resulting from slow response time between two computers; measurement of delay (Mechanics); rim of a drum; If you lag the inside of a roof, a pipe, or a water tank, you cover it with a special material in order to prevent heat escaping from it or to prevent it from freezing. If you have to take the floorboards up, take the opportunity to lag any pipes at the same time Water tanks should be well lagged and the roof well insulated. see also lagging. a delay or period of waiting between one event and a second event; Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy; The logical relationship between the start and/or finish of one activity and the start and/or finish of a following activity For example, in a finish-to-start dependency with a 10 day lag, the successor activity cannot start until 10 days after the predecessor has finished; one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket; {i} (British Slang) criminal, prisoner, ex-convict; prison time; Lag is the time it takes for an entered message to be read by others This time is usually measured in seconds, with less than 10 seconds acceptable However, when the net is unstable, it is not uncommon to find several minutes of 'lag' between one person and another During these times, if you want to talk with someone in particular, it can be helpful to join up onto the same server they are on, or use DCC to carry on a more secure, and definitely less-lagged conversation; 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; The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing; A modification of a logical relationship which directs a delay in the successor task For example, in a finish-to-start dependency with a 10-day lag, the successor activity cannot start until 10 days after the predecessor has finished See also lead; A stave of a cask, drum, etc; the time between one event, process, or period and another; A modification of a logical relationship which directs a delay in the successor task For example, in a finishtostart dependency with a 10day lag, the successor activity cannot start until 10 days after the predecessor has finished See also lead; To transport for crime; To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags; 1 The delay between change of conditions and the indication of the change on an instrument; The amount of time between making an online request or command and receiving a response Until lag time becomes no time at all the Internet will not be consumer-friendly, and its profit potential will remain limited; bad connection, loss of connection; Payment of a financial obligation later than is expected or required, as in lead and lag Also, the number of periods that an dependent variable in a regression model is "held back" in order to predict the dependent variable; Lag distance is a distance (h) within which any two samples (a pair) is taken for variogram calculation Lag tolerance () is assigned to the lag for setting a search interval for pairs: ± So the pairs are searched within h ± distance Often, default lag tolerance is set to half lag distance (=h/2) See 7 1 Variogram calculation parameters; the act of slowing down or falling behind; hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc; throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins; The delay in information coming across the network through telnet or other types of connections, usually caused by a slow or error-prone connection somewhere between the two communicating machines Technically there are two causes of lag, the second being chew; throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc; An event occurring at time t + k (k > 0) is said to lag behind an event occurring at time t, the extent of the lag being k An event occurring k time periods before another may be regarded as having a negative lag; The usual delay between the actual time a service is rendered or an item is supplied and the time it is paid for and recorded Lag includes both claims that have not yet been submitted and claims that have been submitted but not yet paid Lag is the result of administrative efficiency of the provider, the employer (if employer involvement is requir5ed in supplying claim forms or verifying eligibility), the employee, and the claim administrator Human procrastination is a major factor in lag