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lagging   (TTS Sound)

The noun lagging has 1 sense

• lagging -- (used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat)

The verb lag has 4 senses

• lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind -- (hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.)


• imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand -- (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")


• lag -- (throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins)


• lag -- (cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes")