lags behind

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• lags — læg n. slowness; lateness; delay, lingering; (Computers) lapse resulting from slow response time between two computers; measurement of delay (Mechanics); rim of a drum n. (British Slang) criminal, prisoner, ex convict; prison time v. fall behind …   English contemporary dictionary

• lag behind someone — lag behind (someone/something) to not be at the level that someone or something else has already achieved. The pay for government workers lags behind the pay for workers in private industry. He lagged far behind his classmates in reading and math …   New idioms dictionary

• lag behind something — lag behind (someone/something) to not be at the level that someone or something else has already achieved. The pay for government workers lags behind the pay for workers in private industry. He lagged far behind his classmates in reading and math …   New idioms dictionary

• lag behind — (someone/something) to not be at the level that someone or something else has already achieved. The pay for government workers lags behind the pay for workers in private industry. He lagged far behind his classmates in reading and math skills.… …   New idioms dictionary

• lag — [[t]læ̱g[/t]] lags, lagging, lagged 1) VERB If one thing or person lags behind another thing or person, their progress is slower than that of the other thing or person. [V behind n] Britain still lags behind most of Europe in its provisions for… …   English dictionary

• hysteresis — hysteretic /his teuh ret ik/, hysteresial /his teuh ree see euhl/, adj. hysteretically, adv. /his teuh ree sis/, n. Physics. 1. the lag in response exhibited by a body in reacting to changes in the forces, esp. magnetic forces, affecting it. Cf.… …   Universalium

• lag — lag1 /lag/, v., lagged, lagging, n. v.i. 1. to fail to maintain a desired pace or to keep up; fall or stay behind: After five minutes of hard running, some of them began to lag. 2. to move or develop slowly, as toward a goal or objective, or in… …   Universalium

• Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… …   Universalium

• lag — I [[t]læg[/t]] v. lagged, lag•ging, n. 1) to fail to maintain a desired pace or speed: to lag behind in production[/ex] 2) to linger; delay 3) to decrease gradually; flag: Interest lagged as the meeting went on[/ex] 4) gam to throw one s shooting …   From formal English to slang

• Cabernet Sauvignon — Infobox grape variety name = Cabernet Sauvignon color = Noir caption = Cabernet Sauvignon grapes species = Vitis Vinifera also called = Bouchet, Bouche, Petit Bouchet, Petit Cabernet, Petit Vidure, Vidure and Sauvignon Rouge origin = Bordeaux… …   Wikipedia

• Hysteresis — Not to be confused with Hysteria. Fig. 1. Electric displacement field D of a ferroelectric material as the electric field E is first decreased, then increased. The curves form a hysteresis loop. Hysteresis is the dependence of a system not… …   Wikipedia