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"LAGS" is a plural of: lag. |
Date "LAGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Eng. Long pieces of timber closely fitted together and fastened to oak curbs or rings forming part of a drum used in sinking through quicksand orsoft ground. CF:lag. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Veteran | Phrase: "superfluous lags the veteran on the stage". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LAGS |
| English words defined with "LAGS": dawdler, drone ♦ hysteresis ♦ laggard, lagger ♦ trailer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LAGS": carding beater, cepstrum, Circuit Lag ♦ kepstrum, Kirschner beater ♦ negative rake ♦ slew-induced distortion ♦ transient intermodulation distortion. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If their work lags it is because they are not fed. (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The assessment of psychological impact in children with implants lags behind that for the adult population, in part because psychological outcome is a factor of audiological benefit, which is realized more slowly in children. (references) | |
Donor-recipient matching is a significant factor in graft survival, but identification of the transplantation antigens, the factors used in matching of African-Americans, Native Americans and Hispanics lags behind that of whites. (references) | ||
Business | China lags in the production of desulfurization technology. (references) | |
The Ukrainian telecommunications industry still lags behind Western and Central European countries. (references) | ||
The Korean broadcasting equipment industry still lags far behind foreign competitors in technical competence and product quality. (references) | ||
Children | China | However, reality for persons with disabilities lags far behind legal dictates, and many do not receive or have access to special assistance or to programs designed to assist them. (references) |
Economic History | Bulgaria | Development of broadband service lags behind ISDN. (references) |
Italy | Still, Italy lags other European countries in recent economic surveys. (references) | |
Travel | Slovak Rep | Travelers to Slovakia should note that while major credit cards are increasingly accepted at major hotels and restaurants in Bratislava, acceptance lags in other parts of the country. (references) |
Worker Rights | Fiji | Government enforcement of safety standards suffers from a lack of trained personnel and lags in compensation hearings and rulings. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LAGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "LAGS" is used about 99 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 (plural) | 55.56% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 44.44% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Total | 100.00% | 99 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "LAGS": time-lags. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LAGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | zögert (demurs, hesitates, procrastinates, tarries). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | リースç"£æ¥ (ducktail, leader, leadership, leads and lags, leasing industry, reader, reasonable, regent style). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | リーズアンドラッグズ (leads and lags). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | agslay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "LAGS": beflags, clags, flags, graylags, greylags, gulags, slags, stalags. (additional references) | |
Words containing "LAGS": flagship, flagships, flagstaff, flagstaffs, flagstaves, flagstick, flagsticks, flagstone, flagstones. (additional references) | |
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"LAGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blags, laag, lacs, Laga, lage, Lagg, laggs, lagh, lagi, lago, lagu, lagus, lagy, lals, langes, langs, larsy, las, Lasgo, lats, laxs, Lbgas, leggs, leghs, legos, legus, Lga, lijs, ljas, Loggs, lsg, Luggs, luis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LAGS" (pronounced la"gz) |
| 4 | l a" g z | flags. |
| 3 | -a" g z | bags, brags, drags, fags, gags, jags, mags, nags, rags, sags, scags, snags, tags, wags, zags. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gals, slag. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-s" | |
-1 letter: als, gal, gas, lag, las, sag, sal. | |
-2 letters: ag, al, as, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-s" | |
+1 letter: algas, clags, flags, galas, gales, galls, gaols, glads, glans, glass, glias, goals, slags, slang. | |
+2 letters: aglets, algins, algors, algums, aligns, almugs, angels, angles, argals, argils, argles, argols, bagels, belgas, clangs, eagles, gables, galahs, galeas, gallus, galops, galosh, gaslit, gaults, gavels, gayals, glaces, glacis, glades, glairs, glands, glares, glassy, glazes, gleams, gleans, gloams, gloats, glossa, gnarls, gorals, graals, grails, gulags, lagans, lagers, laighs, larges, largos, lasing, laughs, legals, liangs, ligans, ligase, lingas, logans, plages, sagely, sawlog, signal, silage, slaggy, slangs, slangy, slogan, stalag, valgus. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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