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词汇 lag
释义 lag
verb
uk /læɡ/ us /læɡ/-gg-

lagverb (MOVE/REACT SLOWLY)


[ I ]
to move or make progress so slowly that you are behind other people or things: 缓慢移动;掉队,滞后
He's lagging behind - I think we'd better wait for him to catch us up.他有点掉队了——我看我们最好等他赶上来。
Sales are lagging at the moment.目前的销售很不景气。
[ I ]
If a computer or computer game lags, there is a delay between the user doing something and the computer or game reacting to it:
If I try to access any of the folders or files, the computer lags seriously.
Why are the games on my laptop suddenly lagging when they ran fine before?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Slow and moving slowly
(as) slow as molassesidiom
at a snail's paceidiom
by and byidiom
by degreesidiom
claw your way (somewhere)idiom
float
hang around
in ones and twosidiom
inch by inchidiom
infiltrate
infiltration
jog
labour
sluggishly
sluggishness
snail
staged
steadily
struggle
wander

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Delaying and wasting time

lagverb (COVER)


[ T ]UK
to cover something with a thick layer of material in order to stop heat from escaping or to stop water from freezing: (为保温而)覆盖,(为防止结冰而)给…加保温层
to lag pipes给管道加保温层
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Covering and adding layers
additive
asphalt
bestrew
bind
blanket
blindfold
fall over
film
film over
gum
gum something up
inlaid
retread
seasoned
slap
slap something on
smother something in/with something
spackle
tent
wax

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Building: construction work & workers

lagverb (PRISON)


[ T ]Australian Englishinformal
to send someone to prison or to arrest someone使入狱,逮捕
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Putting people in prison
at His/Her Majesty's pleasureidiom
bang someone up
bar
behind barsidiom
bird
commit
immured
imprison
imprisonment
in custody
incarcerate
intern
lock
pen
remand someone in custody
restraint
rot
rot in jail, prison, etc.idiom
self-surrender
stretch

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Arresting & charging
lag
noun
uk /læɡ/ us /læɡ/

lagnoun (DELAY)


[ C ]
a delay between two things happening: (两件事之间的)间隔,延迟
You have to allow for a time lag between order and delivery.订货和送货之间要有一段时间间隔。
[ C or U ]
a delay between a user performing an action on a computer or computer game, and the computer or game reacting:
Gamers know the slightest lag between a mouse's movements and the action on the PC screen can have serious consequences.
You can optimize your Internet connection so you can play online games with less lag.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Delaying and wasting time
ado
busywork
buy timeidiom
carry something over
dally
gridlock
hold up
inefficiency
inefficiently
kept
kick
push
retard
retardation
set someone back (something)
shelve
sit
sit on something
spin
stall

lagnoun (PRISONER)


UKold-fashionedinformal
a prisoner or a person who has often been a prisoner in the past: 囚犯,犯人;惯犯
an old lag惯犯
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People held in prison
captive
cellmate
co-prisoner
con
convict
dead
dead man walkingidiom
detainee
detenu
gaolbird
hostage
inmate
internee
jailbird
lifer
political prisoner
pow
prisoner
prisoner of conscience
prisoner of war

lag | American Dictionary


lag
verb[ I ]
us/læɡ/-gg-
to move or advance so slowly that you are behind other people or things:
John’s always lagging behind the others in the class.
lag
noun[ C/U ]
us/læɡ/
a delay in the period of time in which events happen:
[ C ]There is often a lag between becoming infected and the first signs of the illness.

lag | Business English


lag
verb
uk /læɡ/us-gg-
[ I or T ]
to not make as much progress as other people or things:
lag behind sb/sthBusiness leaders in the UK still lag behind their European counterparts in foreign language skills.
lag well/far behindAs usual we lag far behind the rest of the world in this matter.
They continue to lag their competitors in most areas of the business.
[ I ]
to move or make progress more slowly than usual, or to change later than something else changes:
Business had improved considerably after lagging last year.
There has been an upturn in business travel, but hotel prices are still lagging.
lag
noun[ C ]
uk /læɡ/us
a delay between two things happening:
This can mean a lag during construction projects.
Sometimes there would be long lag times between responses.

See also


time lag

Examples of lag


lag
Thus, the re-polarization of congressional elections lagged behind the polarization of national presidential politics.
This time is determined as the cycle at which the number of parasites exceeds the antibody trigger level plus a specified lag time.
A potentially more serious problem is that changes in perceptions of corruption may lag reality, if they have anything to do with reality at all.
When the lag is three years, it remains on the edge of statistical significance (p 0.053).
Consistent with our conjecture, the second lag comes in significantly.
Adding more lags would reduce the power of the test significantly.
One simply has to add a model containing both lagged output and lagged inflation to the two models considered thus far.
All of the children who developed psychiatric conditions had developmental lags of motor function and what she called poor integration of visual - proprioceptive stimuli.
Despite recent large increases in the number of organs transplanted from living donors, especially from genetically unrelated volunteers, supply continues to lag far behind demand.
This conclusion is reinforced by the finding that lagged employment exerts a negative difference on current wages.
Generally, the suggested lag order is two years, although in some cases it extended to three years.
Since television coverage is of today's events, no lag structure is introduced for its interaction terms.
A plausible hypothesis is that tax compliance lagged, by many years, behind the effect of the administrative tax reforms.
The curses and insults uttered by the audience whenever this actor appeared were thus directed against the f lag.
This is typical of forest resources, where there is a long lag between regeneration and maturity.
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