Synonyms for lag
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1. lagadjective

   late

   Synonyms:
   latency

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lag

   Synonyms:
   loiter, linger, saunter, dally, tarry, idle

   Antonyms:
   press, hasten, speedup, hurry, stir

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1. slowdown, lag, retardationnoun

   the act of slowing down or falling behind

   Synonyms:
   slowness, meantime, backwardness, retardent, subnormality, interim, slowdown, retardant, mental retardation, slowing, meanwhile, deceleration, stave, retardation

2. interim, meantime, meanwhile, lagnoun

   the time between one event, process, or period and another

   "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"

   Synonyms:
   interim, stave, slowdown, retardation, meantime, meanwhile

3. stave, lagverb

   one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

   Synonyms:
   rung, meantime, round, interim, slowdown, meanwhile, staff, stave, retardation

4. lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behindverb

   hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

   Synonyms:
   immure, recur, incarcerate, relapse, retrogress, dally, linger, lapse, remand, regress, imprison, jug, dawdle, fall behind, fall back, put behind bars, lose, gaol, jail, resort, recede, drop off, put away, recidivate

5. imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remandverb

   lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

   "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

   Synonyms:
   throw out, toss out, discard, put to sleep, immure, jug, tuck away, jail, toss away, lock, cast away, remand, lock up, remit, shut up, send back, cast aside, put behind bars, fall back, dawdle, dispose, imprison, fall behind, put aside, shut away, cast out, chuck out, toss, throw away, gaol, fling, lock in, lock away, tuck in, put away, incarcerate

6. lagverb

   throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

   Synonyms:
   jug, imprison, dawdle, incarcerate, fall behind, fall back, put behind bars, jail, immure, put away, remand, gaol

7. lagverb

   cover with lagging to prevent heat loss

   "lag pipes"

   Synonyms:
   jug, imprison, dawdle, incarcerate, fall behind, fall back, put behind bars, jail, immure, put away, remand, gaol

Matched Categories

1. • Confine
   • Cover
   • Delay
   • Law
   • Time Interval
   • Toss

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lagverb

   Synonyms:
   loiter, linger, saunter, fall behind, move slowly

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1. lagverb

   Synonyms:
   fall behind, loiter, linger, delay, saunter

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1. List of paraphrases for "lag":

   gal, latency, lags, latent, delay, slippage, gap, mismatch, discrepancy

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1. Med Jones:

   Countries that try to spread their ideologies by force, be it religion, socialism, capitalism, democracy or something else, will be overwhelmed by the human and economic cost of conflicts. Those countries will lag behind other countries that are focusing on developing their economies and advancing their interests via global partnerships and trade. With the new global knowledge and global competition, if you take your eye off the economic ball someone else will pick it up.

2. Jason Dorsey:

   It represents a lag, not necessarily a completely different way in approaching family life. the oldest millennials tell us they’re being pulled in three different directions.

3. Blerina Uruci:

   Once the tariffs start feeding through, import prices are likely to reflect them first, it will then likely feed through with a longer lag and to a smaller extent to producer prices and consumer prices.

4. Jamie Zeitzer:

   However, the treatments that are developed for jet lag can be used for less prevalent, though far more significant societal problems including delayed sleep in teens( in whom we have an ongoing clinical trial using the flash technique) and shift workers who try to flip between a night time schedule for work and a day time schedule for leisure.

5. Matt Mountain:

   On Earth, we can predict if it is going to rain pretty much anywhere in the world very accurately, and space weather just isn't there yet, our predictions lag behind terrestrial weather by 50 years, if not more. What we need is to grasp the underlying physics behind space weather, and this starts at the Sun, which is what The Inouye Solar Telescope will study over the next decades.