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English

Etymology

Origin uncertain, perhaps a dialectal adjective lag distorted from last, or of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian lagga (“to go slowly”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Adjective

lag

1. late
2. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
   • 1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal

     We know your thoughts of us, that laymen are lag souls, and rubbish of remaining clay.

Translations

Noun

lag (countable and uncountable, plural lags)

1. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
   • 2004, May 10. The New Yorker Online,

     During the Second World War, for instance, the Washington Senators had a starting rotation that included four knuckleball pitchers. But, still, I think that some of that was just a generational lag.

2. (uncountable) Delay; latency.
   • 2001, Patricia M. Wallace, The psychology of the Internet

     When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.

   • 2002, Marty Cortinas, Clifford Colby, The Macintosh bible

     Latency, or lag, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
4. (Britain, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
   • 1934, P. G. Wodehouse, Thank You, Jeeves

     On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose that an old lag like myself would have been getting used to it by now.
5. (snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
6. One who lags; that which comes in last.
7. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
8. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
9. A bird, the greylag.

Usage notes

In casual use, lag and latency are used synonymously for "time delay between initiating an action and the effect", with lag being more casual. In formal use, latency is the technical term, while lag is used when latency is greater than usual, particularly in internet gaming. When used as a comparative to refer to the distance between moving objects lag refers to a moving object that has not yet reached the reference object position, whether linear or rotational. The term latency is not used in technical jargon for linear or rotational distance. The neutral term displacement can be used ambiguously and may refer to the distance between objects without indicating direction. In this use, lag, lags, and lagging are the complements of lead, leads, and leading. For example, For any AC power system, at all reactive loads, the current waveform has a phase displacement or power factor to the voltage. An inductive load has a lagging power factor, while a capacitive load has a leading PF.

Synonyms

• (delay): latency

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Finnish: lagi
• ? Swedish: lagg n

Translations

Verb

lag (third-person singular simple present lags, present participle lagging, simple past and past participle lagged)

1. to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I

     Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe.

   • 1717, The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands

     While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find.

   • 2004, — The New Yorker, 5 April 2004

     Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan.

2. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer)
   • c. 1974, Philip Larkin, The Building

     Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
   • 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Secret Societies"

     She lags us if we poach.

4. (Britain, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.
5. (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
   • 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age

     The weight would lagge thee that art wont to flye.

Descendants

• ? Swedish: lagga

Translations

Derived terms

• lagging
• lag behind

See also

• tardy

Further reading

• Latency (engineering) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Building insulation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jet lag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Turbo lag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AGL, ALG, Alg., GAL, GLA, Gal, Gal., LGA, gal, gal., ?Gal

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lachen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Verb

lag (present lag, present participle laggende, past participle gelag)

1. to laugh

Related terms

• glimlag

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *lauga, from Proto-Indo-European *lowg- (compare Old Norse laug (“hot spring, bath”), Latvian luga (“marshy deposit, silt”), Serbo-Croatian l?ža (“puddle, pool”)).

Verb

lag (first-person singular past tense laga, participle lagur)

1. to wet, moisten
2. (colloquial) to water
3. (geography) to wash land (of a body of water)

Derived terms

• lagë
• lagësht
• lagështirë
• lëgatë
• lagaterë
• lug
• lagëtur

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *lag-, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lay, lie (down)”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (lókhos, “ambush, ambuscade, armed band”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (lagjan, “to lay”). Singular form of lagje.

Noun

lag m

1. troop, band, encampment

Related terms

• lagje
• log

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse lag, from Proto-Germanic *lag?. Doublet of lav (“guild”) and lov (“law”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la???/, [læ?j], [læ?]
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

lag n (singular definite laget, plural indefinite lag)

1. layer, coat (a coherent mass spread on the top or on the outside of something else)
2. (sociology) class, stratum (class of society with similar status)
3. (geology) stratum (layer of sedimentary rock)

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?x
• IPA^(key): /l?x/
• Homophones: lach

Verb

lag

1. singular past indicative of liggen

Anagrams

• alg, gal

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse lag

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?a?/
• Rhymes: -?a?
• Homophones: lað, læ, læð

Noun

lag n (genitive singular lags, plural løg)

1. layer
2. (in compounds) what belongs together (company, union)
3. regularity, order
4. skill, capability

   hann hevur gott lag á tí.

   he has good skills in that

5. method, system
6. importance

   tað liggur einki lag á.

   This is not important.

7. mood

   tað er einki lag á honum.

   He is in a bad mood.

8. design, shape
9. melody

Declension

Derived terms

• andalag
• arbeiðslag
• eyðkennislag
• ferðalag
• felag
• grundarlag
• havnarlag
• hjúnalag
• huglag
• í lagi
• jarðlag
• ljóðlag
• niðurlag
• parlag
• rakstrarlag
• sólarlag
• stiglag
• stjórnarlag
• tjóðlag
• undirlag
• veðurlag
• yrkingarlag
• ørindislag

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

lag

1. first/third-person singular preterite of liegen

Gothic

Romanization

lag

1. Romanization of ????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la??/ ()
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

lag n (genitive singular lags, nominative plural lög)

1. layer
2. (geology) stratum
3. tune, song
4. order
5. thrust, stab
6. good method, knack

Declension

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lac, from Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh?g-, compare English slack and Latin laxus (“slack”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /l????/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /l??a?/

Adjective

lag (genitive singular masculine laig, genitive singular feminine laige, plural laga, comparative laige)

1. weak

Declension

Maltese

Etymology

From Sicilian lagu, from Latin lacus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?k/

Noun

lag m (plural lagi)

1. lake

   Synonym: g?adira

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse lag

Noun

lag n (definite singular laget, indefinite plural lag, definite plural laga or lagene)

1. layer

   "Denne sjokoladen har et lag med hvitt lag utenpå." (This chocolate has a white outer layer.)

2. team (group of people)

3. (rare, especially outside stock phrases) mood; very frequently found in the definite ("laget"), often preceded by "godt" (see below)

   "Han er i godt lag i dag." (He's having a good day. / He's happy. / He's happy today.)

4. (quite rare) party; found mainly in the phrase "godt lag" meaning "good people", "good company" or "good party"

   "I godt lag spiller det ingen rolle hva man feirer, hvor eller hvordan." (Surrounded by friendly/good/nice people, it doesn't matter why you are celebrating, or where or how.)

5. (military) a squad

Synonyms

• (sense 2) team

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

lag

1. imperative of lage

References

• “lag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse lag, from Proto-Germanic *lag?.

Noun

lag n (definite singular laget, indefinite plural lag, definite plural laga)

1. layer
2. team (group of people)
3. mood
4. (military) a squad

Synonyms

• (sense 2) team

Derived terms

Verb

lag

1. imperative of laga

References

• “lag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lag?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?-.

Noun

lag n (genitive lags, plural l?g)

1. stratum, layer
2. due place, right position
3. companionship, fellowship
4. living together
5. cohabitation
6. market price, tax
7. thrust, stab (with a knife, sword or spear)
8. air, tune

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• laga
• leggja
• liggja

Descendants

• Icelandic: lag n; lög n pl
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lag n; lov f

References

• lag in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *l?gaz (“low”).

Adjective

l?g (comparative l?giro, superlative l?gist)

1. low

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) laitg
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) lai
• (Puter) lej

Etymology

From Latin lacus, from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Noun

lag m (plural lags)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) lake

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish lac (“weak”)

Adjective

lag

1. weak, feeble

Derived terms

• deoch-lag

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???/
• Rhymes: -???

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish lagh, from Old Norse l?g. Cognate with Danish lov, Norwegian lov, English law.Related to Old Norse leggja “to define”.

Noun

lag c

1. a law; a written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and the appropriate consequences thereof. Laws are usually associated with mores.
2. law; the body of written rules governing a society.
3. a law; a one-sided contract.
4. a law; an observed physical law.
5. (mathematics) a law; a statement that is true under specified conditions.

Usage notes

• In the expression vara någon till lags (“to be of service to someone”), this is an ancient genitive controlled by the preposition till (“to”)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• juridik

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish lagher, from Old Norse l?gr, from Proto-Germanic *laguz, from Proto-Indo-European *lakw-.Cognate with Latin lacus.

Noun

lag c

1. (cooking) a water-based solution of sugar, salt and/or other spices; e.g. brine

Declension

Related terms

• saltlag
• sockerlag
• ättikslag

Etymology 3

From Old Swedish lagh, from Old Norse lag. Derived from Old Norse leggja (“to lay”) or liggja (“to lie”).

Noun

lag n

1. a workgroup, a team; group of people which in sports compete together versus another team; or in general, work closely together

Declension

Derived terms

References

• lag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• alg, gal

Tagakaulu Kalagan

Noun

lag

1. wild cat

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse l?gr, from Proto-Germanic *laguz, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pond.”)

Noun

lag m (definite lagjän)

1. liquid, decoction of something

Derived terms

• genlag

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lag n (“stratum, layer; due place; fellowship; cohabitation; etc.,”) pl l?g (“law, laws; participation or fellowship in law,”) from Proto-Germanic *lag?, from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie down.”)

Noun

lag n (definite lagjä)

1. layer
2. the hay in the barn or the unthreshed grain, or the straw thereof

   Bär mäg hit’n knipp bothti halm-lage

   Carry to me a bundle of the straw lying in the barn!

3. gathering, company

Noun

lag f (definite laga)

1. law

Usage notes

Neuter definite plural laga and feminine definite singular laga are not distinguishable in form, but only through surrounding grammar.

Derived terms

• gravölslag
• i lag
• lagbok
• lawi

English

Etymology

From Middle English riden, from Old English r?dan, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreyd?-.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

ride (third-person singular simple present rides, present participle riding, simple past rode or (obsolete) rade or (obsolete) rid, past participle ridden or (now colloquial and nonstandard) rode)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. [from 8th c., transitive usage from 9th c.]
   • 1923, "Mrs. Rinehart", Time, 28 Apr 1923

     It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.

   • 2010, The Guardian, 6 Oct 2010

     The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.

2. (intransitive, transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. [from 9th c., transitive usage from 19th c.]
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.

   • 1960, "Biznelcmd", Time, 20 Jun 1960

     In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.

3. (transitive, chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. [from 17th c.]

4. (intransitive) Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. [from 10th c.]
   • 1717, John Dryden, Art of Love

     where ships at anchor ride.

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home […]

5. (transitive, intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. [from 10th c.]

6. (transitive) To traverse by riding.
   • 1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present

     Early women tobogganists rode the course in the requisite attire of their day: skirts. In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances.

7. (transitive) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
8. (intransitive) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

9. (intransitive, transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. [from 13th c.]
   • 1997, Linda Howard, Son of the Morning, page 345

     She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.

10. (transitive, colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). [from 19th c.]
    • 2002, Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation, page 375

      “One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.

11. (intransitive) Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. [from 19th c.]
    • 2008, Ann Kessel, The Guardian, 27 Jul 2008

      In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.

12. (intransitive) To rely, depend (on). [from 20th c.]
    • 2006, "Grappling with deficits", The Economist, 9 Mar 2006:

      With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.

13. (intransitive) Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). [from 20th c.]
    • 2001, Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer, 16 Sep 2001

      She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.

14. (lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
15. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
    • 1731, Jonathan Swift, The Presbyterians Plea of Merit

      The nobility […] could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, coblers[sic], brewers, and the like.

16. (surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
17. (radio, television, transitive) To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
    • 2006, Simran Kohli, Radio Jockey Handbook

      The board operator normally watches the meter scale marked for modulation percentage, riding the gain to bring volume peaks into the 85% to 100% range.

    • 2017, Michael O'Connell, Turn Up the Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting (page 22)

      “You don't want them riding the volume knob, so that's why you learn how to do your levels properly to make the whole thing transparent for the listener. […]

18. (music) In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.

Synonyms

• (to have sexual intercourse): do it, get it on; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

ride (plural rides)

1. An instance of riding.

2. (informal) A vehicle.

3. An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.

4. A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.

5. (Britain) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
6. (Britain, dialect, archaic) A saddle horse.

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7. (Ireland) A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
   • 2007 July 14, Michael O'Neill, Re: More mouthy ineffectual poseurs...[was Re: Live Earth - One Of The Most Important Events On This Particular Planet - don't let SCI distract you, in soc.culture.irish, Usenet:

     Absolutely, and I agree about Madonna. An absolute ride *still*. :-) M.

8. (music) In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
   • 2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism (page 238)

     The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.

9. A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.

10. (informal) An act of sexual intercourse

    Synonyms: shag, fuck, cop, bang

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, dire, drie, ired

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?ð?/, [??iðð?]
• Rhymes: -i?d?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Faroese ryta, rita or Icelandic rita, from Old Norse rytr, derived from the verb rjóta (“to cry”), from the verb Proto-Germanic *reutan?.

Noun

ride c (singular definite riden, plural indefinite rider)

1. black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ríða, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, cognate with English ride, German reiten.

Verb

ride (past tense red, past participle redet, c reden, definite or plural redne)

1. to ride (to sit on the back of an animal)
2. (slang) to have intercourse with (sex position with one person sitting on top of another like on a horse)

Inflection

Derived terms

• ridetur
• ridning

French

Etymology

From rider.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?id/
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

ride f (plural rides)

1. wrinkle, line (on face etc.)
2. ripple
3. ridge

Related terms

• ridé
• rider

Verb

ride

1. first-person singular present indicative of rider
2. third-person singular present indicative of rider
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of rider
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of rider
5. second-person singular imperative of rider

Further reading

• “ride” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dire

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Verb

ride

1. third-person singular indicative present of ridere

Anagrams

• dire

Latin

Verb

r?d?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of r?de?

Middle English

Verb

ride

1. Alternative form of riden

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ri

Etymology

From Old Norse ríða

Verb

ride (imperative rid, present tense rider, passive rides, simple past red or rei, past participle ridd, present participle ridende)

1. to ride (e.g. a horse)

Derived terms

• ridedyr
• ridepisk
• ridning

References

• “ride” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ride (present tense rid, past tense reid, past participle ride or ridd or ridt, present participle ridande, imperative rid)

1. Alternative form of rida

Derived terms

• ridedyr
• ridepisk

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian r?da, from Proto-Germanic *r?dan?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reyd?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rid?/, /?ri?d?/

Verb

ride

1. (intransitive) to ride
2. (transitive, intransitive) to drive

Inflection

Further reading

• “ride (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011