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lag

English

  1. 🔊 the act of slowing down or falling behind
  2. 🔊 one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
  3. 🔊 the time between one event, process, or period and another
    “meanwhile the socialists are running the government”
  4. 🔊 cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
    “lag pipes”
  5. 🔊 throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
  6. 🔊 hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
  7. 🔊 lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
    “The suspects were imprisoned without trial”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 lagear to lag
  2. 🔊 hacer soga to lag, lag behind
  3. 🔊 lag lag, lagging (when continuity fails in a video game)

Similar words

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