Definizione monolingua

lag

lag (third-person singular simple present lags, present participle lagging, simple past and past participle lagged)

1. to not keep up (the pace), to fall behind
   • 1587??? (Can we date this quote?), George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer

     Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I

     Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts

     Brown skeletons of leaves that lag / My forest-brook along

   • (Can we date this quote?), 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 laggd behind, / Was doomd the sad reward of death to find.

   • 2004, — The New Yorker, 5 April 2004

     Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan.

2. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material
   • c. 1974, Philip Larkin, The Building

     Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.

lag (countable and uncountable; plural lags)

1. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
   • 2004, May 10. The New Yorker Online,

     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.

2. (uncountable) Delay; latency.
   • 1999, Loyd Case, Building the ultimate game PC

     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.

   • 2001, Patricia M. Wallace, The psychology of the Internet

     When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.

   • 2002, Marty Cortinas, Clifford Colby, The Macintosh bible

     Latency, or lag, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.

3. (UK, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
4. 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.

lag (comparative lagger, superlative laggest) (Cleanup of this inflection is being sought) lagger

1. late
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, King Richard III

     Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried.

Definizione dizionario lag

	intervallo
	The number of periods in a time dimension level to move backward from the last non-empty member to retrieve a current or a previous value.

coprire

accettare

accogliere

andare a rilento

ergastolano

galeotto

indugiare

ritardare

ritardo

rivestimento

rivestimento isolante

rivestire

rivestire con materiale isolante

tappezzare

vestire

Altri significati:

to not keep up (the pace), to fall behind

(Internet) bad connection, loss of connection

late

(UK, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.

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

(uncountable) Delay; latency.

to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material

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.