Lag
SEE: Graylagnoun
- 1.
- (A falling behind, time lapse, retardation) production lag ការមិនបានដល់កម្រិត
Example: The wounded soldier lagged behind the others, to go forward without lag. publication lag រយៈពេលក្រោយពេលកំណត់
Example: A lag of several seconds between the lightning and the thunder.
verb — past tense: lagged ; past participle: lagged ; present participle: lagging ;
- 1.
- (INTRANSITIVE) ~ something (with something) (to fail, move, of stay behind, to wane) lag behind the others តាមមិនទាន់ (production) lags មិនបានដល់កម្រិត, អន់ថយ
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) តាមពីក្រោយ, តោងកន្ទុយ
- lag behind
- អន់ជាង, ខ្សោយជាងគេ
- តាមពីក្រោយ, តោងកន្ទុយគេ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- 2.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- 3.
- The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
- 4.
- A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), 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.
- 5.
- 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.
- 6.
- One transported for a crime.
adjective
- 1.
- Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
- 2.
- Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
- 3.
- Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
verb — past tense: lagged ; past participle: lagged ; present participle: lagging ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To transport for crime.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cause to lag; to slacken.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags.
- 1.
- cessation, retardation, slowdown, slowing, slowness