Luxembourgish

Noun

Lag f ‎(plural Lagen)

1. location
2. situation

Related terms

• leien

Synonyms

• (situation): Situatioun

English

Adjective

lag

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

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

2. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
   • Shakespeare

     the lag end of my life

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

     lag souls

Noun

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. (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
4. (Britain, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
   • 1934, P. G. Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves

     On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose that an old lag like myself would have been getting used to it by now.

5. (snooker) A method of deciding which player shall 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.
6. One who lags; that which comes in last.
   • Alexander Pope

     the lag of all the flock

7. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
   • Shakespeare

     the common lag of people

8. 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.
9. A bird, the greylag.

Usage notes

In casual use, lag and latency are used synonymously for “delay between initiating an action and the effect”, with lag more casual. In formal use, latency is the technical term, while lag is used when latency is greater than usual, particularly in internet gaming.

Synonyms

• (delay): latency

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

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

   • 1616, George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer

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

   • 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.

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

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

   • 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.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
   • De Quincey

     She lags us if we poach.

4. (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
   • Heywood

     To lag his flight.

Translations

Derived terms

• lagging
• laggard

See also

• tardy

Anagrams

• AGL gal, Gal, Gal., GAL
• GLA

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lachen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɫɐχ/

Verb

lag ‎(present lag, present participle laggende, past participle gelag)

1. to laugh

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *lauga, from Proto-Indo-European *lowg- (compare Old Norse laug ‎(“hot spring, bath”), Latvian luga ‎(“marshy deposit, silt”), Serbo-Croatian lȕža ‎(“puddle, pool”)).

Verb

lag ‎(first-person singular past tense laga, participle lagur)

1. to wet, moisten
2. (colloquial) to water
3. (geography) to wash land (of a body of water)

Derived terms

• lagë, lagësht, lagështirë, lëgatë, lagaterë, lug

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *lag-, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- ‎(“to lay, lie (down)”). Cognate with Ancient Greek λόχος ‎(lókhos, “ambush, ambuscade, armed band”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 ‎(lagjan, “to lay”). Singular form of lagje.

Noun

lag m

1. troop, band, encampment

Related terms

• lagje

Related terms

• lagje
• log

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laːɡ/, [læːˀj], [læjˀ]

Noun

lag n (singular definite laget, plural indefinite lag)

1. layer
2. coat, coating
3. class
4. stratum

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑx
• IPA^(key): /lɑx/
• Homophones: lach

Verb

lag

1. singular past indicative of liggen

Anagrams

• alg, gal

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛaː/
• Rhymes: -ɛaː
• Homophones: lað, læ, læð

Noun

lag n (genitive singular lags, plural løg)

1. layer
2. (in compounds) what belongs together (company, union)
3. regularity, order
4. skill, capability
5. method, system
6. importance
7. mood
8. design, shape
9. melody

Usage notes

what belongs together

• (in compounds): felag, hjúnalag, etc.

order

• í lagi - in order, all right, ok

skill

• hann hevur gott lag á tí - he has good skills in that

importance

• tað liggur einki lag á - this is not important

mood

• tað er einki lag á honum - he is in a bad mood

Declension

Derived terms

• andalag
• arbeiðslag
• eyðkennislag
• ferðalag
• grundarlag
• havnarlag
• huglag
• jarðlag
• ljóðlag
• niðurlag
• parlag
• rakstrarlag
• sólarlag
• stiglag
• stjórnarlag
• tjóðlag
• undirlag
• veðurlag
• yrkingarlag
• ørindislag

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

lag

1. First-person singular indicative past form of liegen.
2. Third-person singular indicative past form of liegen.

Gothic

Romanization

lag

1. Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌲

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laːɣ/ ()
• Rhymes: -aːɣ

Noun

lag n ‎(genitive singular lags, nominative plural lög)

1. layer
2. song

Declension

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-, compare English slack and Latin laxus ‎(“slack”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɑɡ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠaɡ/

Adjective

lag ‎(genitive singular masculine laig, genitive singular feminine laige, plural laga, comparative laige)

1. weak

Declension

Lojban

Rafsi

lag

1. rafsi of vlagi.

Maltese

Noun

lag m

1. lake

Synonyms

• għadira f

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lag

Noun

lag n ‎(definite singular laget, indefinite plural lag, definite plural laga or lagene)

1. layer

   "Denne sjokoladen har et lag med hvitt lag utenpå." (This chocolate has a white outer layer.)

2. team (group of people)

   "Jeg skal spille for et nytt lag i morgen siden jeg måtte bytte da jeg har flytta." (I'll be playing for a different team tomorrow as I've had to change because I moved."

3. (rare, especially outside stock phrases) mood; very frequently found in the definite ("laget"), often preceded by "godt" (see below)

   "Han er i godt lag i dag." (He's having a good day. / He's happy. / He's happy today.)

4. (quite rare) party; found mainly in the phrase "godt lag" meaning "good people", "good company" or "good party"

   "I godt lag spiller det ingen rolle hva man feirer, hvor eller hvordan." (Surrounded by friendly/good/nice people, it doesn't matter why you are celebrating, or where or how.)

Synonyms

• (sense 2) team

Derived terms

• fotballag
• lagkamerat
• om lag
• ozonlag

Etymology 2

Verb

lag

1. imperative of lage

References

• “lag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse lag

Noun

lag n ‎(definite singular laget, indefinite plural lag, definite plural laga)

1. layer
2. team (group of people)
3. mood

Synonyms

• (sense 2) team

Derived terms

• fotballag
• lagkamerat
• om lag
• ozonlag

References

• “lag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lēgaz ‎(“low”).

Adjective

lāg (comparative lāgiro, superlative lāgist)

1. low

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) laitg
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) lai
• (Puter) lej

Etymology

From Latin lacus.

Noun

lag m (plural lags)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) lake

Scottish Gaelic

Adjective

lag

1. weak, feeble

Derived terms

• deoch-lag

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish lagh, from Old Norse lǫg. Cognate with Danish lov, Norwegian lov, English law. Related to Old Norse leggja “to define”.

Pronunciation

Noun

lag c

1. a law; a written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and the appropriate consequences thereof. Laws are usually associated with mores.
2. law; the body of written rules governing a society.
3. a law; a one-sided contract.
4. a law; an observed physical law.
5. (mathematics) a law; a statement that is true under specified conditions.

Declension

Usage notes

• In the expression vara någon till lags ‎(“to be of service to someone”), this is an ancient genitive controlled by the preposition till ‎(“to”)

Related terms

See also

• juridik

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish lagher, from Old Norse lǫgr, from Proto-Germanic *laguz, from Proto-Indo-European *lakw-. Cognate with Latin lacus.

Pronunciation

Noun

lag c

1. (cooking) a water-based solution of sugar, salt and/or other spices; e.g. brine

Declension

Related terms

• saltlag
• sockerlag
• ättikslag

Etymology 3

From Old Swedish lagh, from Old Norse lag. Derived from Old Norse leggja ‎(“to lay”) or liggja ‎(“to lie”).

Pronunciation

Noun

lag n

1. a workgroup, a team; group of people which in sports compete together versus another team; or in general, work closely together

Declension

Related terms

References

• lag in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)