English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of lag

lag

/noun/ धीरे चलना; पीछे रह जाना; पिछड़ जाना;
/verb/धीरे चलना; पीछे रह जाना; पिछड़ जाना; ; विलंबन;

Synonym loiter; straggle; protraction;

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English Dictionary:

1. Lag

[a.]

- Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
- Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
- Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

2. Lag

[n.]

- One who lags; that which comes in last.
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
- 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.
- See Graylag.
- One transported for a crime.

3. Lag

[v. i.]

- To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

4. Lag

[v. t.]

- To cause to lag; to slacken.
- To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
- To transport for crime.