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Definition: Lager |
LagerNoun1. (South African) a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons. 2. Beer stored for aging. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lager" was first used: 1853. (references) |
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Computing | The dyadic Boolean operation whose result has the Boolean value 1 if and only if the operands have different Boolean values. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A beer brewed by bottom fermentation and stored in refrigerated cellars for clarification and maturing and usually dry, light in colour, and well carbonated. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lager beers are alcoholic beverages of German origin, taking their name from the German lagern ("to store").
Brewed principally from malt (no sugar), hops and water using bottom-fermentation (the yeast flocculates to the bottom of the vat), they are then stored in refrigerated cellars for lagering (or maturing and clarification). Lagers are stored at a low temperature for several months, clearing, acquiring mellowness, and becoming charged with carbon dioxide. Many popular beers are lagers. There are bitter and aromatic varieties (noble hops).
Most lagers are of pale to medium colour, with high carbonation, medium hop flavour, and alcohol content of 3-5 percent by volume.
Common lagers
See also: American lager
- Pilsener
- Dortmund
- Munich
- California steam
- Carlsberg
- Heineken
- Harp
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lager."
Synonym: LagerSynonym: laager (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin; (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep; near beer. beer, non-alcoholic beverage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lager |
| Specialty definitions using "lager": filter-machine operator ♦ SILICA-FILTER OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lager": Lager beer. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lager" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (box-room, depository, storage room, warehouse), Dutch (bearing), German (bearing, bed, bloc, camp, camp of tents, compound, couch, encampment, encampments, lair, lode, pillow, shakedown, stock, stockpile, stockroom, store, storeroom, tented camp, warehouse), Portuguese (lager, lager bier, lagerbier), Serbo-Croatian (stock, storehouse), Swedish (bay, bearing, bearings, coating, course, garner, inventory, lager, lap, laurel, layer, ply, seam, sheet, stock, strata, tier). |
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Screenplays | Can I buy you half a lager, mate (24 Hour Party People; writing credit: Frank Cottrell Boyce) | |
Lyrics | He drinks a lager drink (Tubthumping; performing artist: Chumbawamba) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Two Pints of Lager (And a Packet of Crisps) (2001) Lager Nis (1987) KZ9 - Lager di Sterminio (1977) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lager der Pilger in der Ebene vor 'Arafât. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | American soldiers with cameras making pictures of a row of dead inmates, Lager Nordhausen Concentration Camp / Myers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | H. & J. lager beer / D. Drummond, del. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The best wines, liquors, ales & lager beer, we are selling here. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lager bier / J.Z.(?) Wood ; Mensing & Stecher, lithographers. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Watch on wall" by Kim Heisler Commentary: "My wintertime watch at the wall. lager file is available." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Business | Tooheys in New South Wales, Victoria Bitter (VB) in Victoria, Swan in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, VB and Fosters Lager in South Australia, and VB and Cascade in Tasmania. (references) | |
The leading share of the premium beer market is held by Premium Crown Lager from Carlton & United Breweries with about 33 percent, while Lion Nathan’s Hahn Premium and J. Boag & Son’s James Boag Premium Lager reportedly are also making strong headway. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Lager" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.93% of the time. "Lager" is used about 424 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.93% | 411 | 13,718 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.18% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.18% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.71% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 424 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lager" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lager | Last name | 400 | 22,133 |
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Expressions using "lager": Lager beer ♦ lager bier ♦ Lager wine. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "lager": lager-and-shouting, lager-brewing, lager-louts, lager-swilling, lager-type. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "lager"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | birrë i çelët (lager beer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лека бира (lager beer). (various references) | |
Chinese | 贮藏啤酒. (various references) | |
Czech | vojenský tábor (military camp). (various references) | |
Danish | lageroel (lager bier, lagerbier), lager (box-room, depository, storage room, warehouse). (various references) | |
Dutch | lagerbier (lager bier, lagerbier), lager (bearing). (various references) | |
Farsi | ابجونارس , ابجوکم الکل , ابجودیررس . (various references) | |
Finnish | varasto-olut, olut (ale, beer), keskiolut (medium-strength beer). (various references) | |
French | lagerbier (lager bier, lagerbier), lager (lager bier, lagerbier). (various references) | |
German | lagerbier (lager bier, lagerbier), helles bier (light beer). (various references) | |
Greek | ξανθή μπύρα, είδοσ ζύθου ή μπύρασ, λάγκερ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | világos sör (ale, lager beer, pale ale), tábor (camp, camping ground, camping site, encampment, side), szekértábor (laager), hadifogolytábor (cage, laager, prison camp). (various references) | |
Irish | lágair (of lager). (various references) | |
Italian | lagerbier (lager bier, lagerbier), lager (lager bier, lagerbier), birra chiara (ale), birra (ale, beer, bitter, wallop). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ラウリン酸 (La Salle, Lacoste, lacrosse, lactose, lager beer, Laos, lasagna, lauric acid, lounge, loungewear, paddle, raccoon, racket, racquetball, radial, radial tire, radian, radium, radius, raglan, ragtime, rational, rationalism, rationalist, rationalization, round, round number, round robin, round table, rug, rugby, rugger). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラガービール (lager beer). (various references) | |
Manx | lhune freillagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agerlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lager (lager bier, lagerbier), cervejalager (lager bier, lagerbier). (various references) | |
Romanian | bere tare (bub, knock down), bere lager. (various references) | |
Russian | легкое пиво (lager beer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zrelo pivo (lager beer). (various references) | |
Spanish | 'lagerbier' (lager bier, lagerbier), 'lager' (lager bier, lagerbier), cerveza dorada (light beer). (various references) | |
Swedish | lager (bay, bearing, bearings, coating, course, garner, inventory, lap, laurel, layer, ply, seam, sheet, stock, strata, tier). (various references) | |
Turkish | alman birası (lager beer). (various references) | |
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| German | 100 BCE-Modern | Lagerbier. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lager": lagered, lagering, lagers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lager": pillager, sockdolager, villager. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lager": pillagers, sockdolagers, villageries, villagers, villagery. (additional references) | |
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"Lager" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alfgar, algier, alnager, Blager, blagger, elager, Eliger, fager, flagger, Kagera, laagar, laber, lacguer, Laeger, Laer, Laga, lagar, lage, lagen, lagere, laggar, lagge, laghe, lagi, Lagle, lagree, lagu, langer, laper, lauge, Legere, leggr, leiger, liget, Ligger, liguer, ligur, Logar, logor, lojer, lugar, lugee, plager, slager, uliger, vager, zager. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lager" (pronounced lÄ"ger) |
| 4 | l Ä" g er | logger. |
| 3 | -Ä" g er | jogger. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: argle, glare, large, regal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-r" | |
-1 letter: ager, earl, egal, gale, gear, lear, rage, rale, real. | |
-2 letters: age, ale, are, ear, era, erg, gae, gal, gar, gel, lag, lar, lea, leg, rag, reg. | |
-3 letters: ae, ag, al, ar, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-r" | |
+1 letter: aglare, alegar, angler, argled, argles, argyle, galere, galore, gaoler, garble, gargle, glaire, glared, glares, glazer, gravel, laager, lagers, lagger, larger, larges, malgre, raggle, regale, regnal, tergal. | |
+2 letters: aerogel, alegars, algebra, aligner, alleger, allegro, allergy, angerly, anglers, argyles, clanger, dangler, draggle, eagerly, earplug, engrail, enlarge, flagger, flanger, fragile, gabbler, galeres, gallery, galores, gambler, gambrel, gangrel, gaolers, garbled, garbler, garbles, gargled, gargler, gargles, general, glacier, gladder, gladier, glaired, glaires, glancer, glarier, glazers, glazier, gleamer, gleaner, gloater, glomera, gnarled, gomeral, grabble, gracile, grackle, granule, grapnel, grapple, graupel, gravels, gravely, greatly, gremial, greylag, haggler, jangler, laagers, lagered, laggers, langrel, largely, largess, largest, laugher, leaguer, legator, mangler, nargile, pergola, plaguer, raggles, realgar, realign, regaled, regaler, regales, regalia, regally, reginal, reglaze, regular, tangler, tegular, verglas, vorlage, wangler, wrangle. | |
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