[
US
/ˈɫæɡ/
]
[ UK /lˈæɡ/ ]
[ UK /lˈæɡ/ ]
VERB
- throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
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lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
The suspects were imprisoned without trial -
cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
lag pipes
NOUN
- one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
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the time between one event, process, or period and another
meanwhile the socialists are running the government - the act of slowing down or falling behind
How To Use lag In A Sentence
- In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
- The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
- At any rate, she rolled up the cuffs of her camouflage cargo pants a few times so she didn't trip if today's class required running.
- Imagine an anthropologist visiting a remote tribal village to study its inhabitants.
- Because wheat emerges so quickly, weeds must be killed before drilling using tillage or contact herbicides.
- The term "strategic" came up again earlier this year, when Ontario's provincial government set up a committee to debate a proposed merger between London Stock Exchange Group PLC and TMX Group Inc., operator of Canada's flagship Toronto Stock Exchange. Canada Turns Wary Eye to Foreign Bids
- On Friday, we thought we'd try lunch at the Stag and Hounds in Binfield, but there wasn't a table free, so we'd headed back homewards and went to the poshest place in the village.
- Most choose to buy in more affordable villages a little way away. Times, Sunday Times
- The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
- The space left by evaporation is called the ullage, while the liquid lost is sometimes called the ‘angels' share’ and is particularly financially significant in the production of older cognac and Armagnac.
