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Word: Lag
Speech Type: Verb
early 16th century (as a noun in the sense ‘hindmost person in a game, race, etc.’, also ‘dregs’): related to the dialect adjective lag(perhaps from a fanciful distortion of last, or of Scandinavian origin: compare with Norwegian dialect lagga ‘go slowly’)
laɡ
fail to keep up with another or others in movement or development
Short Definition:fall behind
Examples:- they waited for Tim who was lagging behind
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Word: Lag
Speech Type: Noun
laɡ
a period of time between one event and another
Short Definition:period between events
Examples:- a time lag between infection and symptoms
a retardation in an electric current or movement.
Short Definition:retardation in electric current
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