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lag behind

/lag/US // læg //UK // (læɡ) //

滞后,滞后于,滞后的,落后于人

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    lagged, lag·ging.

    • : 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.
    • : to move or develop slowly, as toward a goal or objective, or in relation to an associated factor: to lag behind in production.
    • : to delay or fail in reaching full development: The factory lags regularly in making its quota.
    • : to hang back; linger; delay: The old friends lagged because they wanted to talk some more.
    • : to decrease, wane, or flag gradually, as in intensity: Interest lagged as the meeting went on.
    • : to experience a delay between player input or game signals and the in-game manifestation of that action, often due to high network latency: I’m lagging so hard that enemies are killing me before I can even attack them.
    • : Marbles. to throw one's shooting marble toward a line on the ground in order to decide on the order of play.
    • : Billiards, Pool. string.
v.有主动词 verb
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    lagged, lag·ging.

    • : to fail to keep up with: The industry still lags the national economy.
    • : Obsolete. to cause to lag.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
    • : a person who lags behind, is the last to arrive, etc.
    • : an interval or lapse of time: There was a developmental lag in the diffusion of ideas.
    • : Digital Technology. Also called dis·play lag [dih-spley-lag] /dɪˈspleɪ ˌlæg/ .the delay between a signal input and its display on a screen, as a high-definition television screen or LCD, due to latency in digital data conversion.Also called in·put lag [in-poot lag] /ˈɪnˌpʊt ˌlæg/ . a display lag between player input or game signals and the in-game manifestation of that action, due to differences in display refresh rate or controller input: To make a competitive speed run, your best display option for minimal lag is still a CRT.Also called net·work lag [net-wurk lag] /ˈnɛtˌwɜrk ˌlæg/ . such a display lag due to high network latency: If you have an old computer or slow connection, lag makes multiplayer gameplay difficult.
    • : Mechanics. the amount of retardation of some motion.
    • : Electricity. the retardation of one alternating quantity, as current, with respect to another related alternating quantity, as voltage, often expressed in degrees.
    • : Marbles, Billiards, Pool. the act of lagging.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indrag

Examples

  • Shared servers are ok for smaller sites, but if you want to avoid the lag time, opt for another type of hosting.

  • That way, visitors can still play the video right there on your page, but they won’t deal with any lag in load time.

  • I had enough of dropping off important Zoom calls and listening to my partner complain about the lag during video games.

  • Those steps are part of the reason for the lag every election.

  • So for example, when you click on a link on your phone, you might notice there’s some lag time to get a response back from the network.

  • If detection lag time is 10 days, then that, plus a healthy margin, should be the “deferral” period.

  • And best of all, no TSA and no jet lag (although we make no guarantees against a next-day hangover).

  • Was there a long lag between those tapes and the tapes released more recently?

  • Breastfeeding rates for black women have risen but still lag far behind those for white and Hispanic mothers.

  • About 50 percent of clients use the I.V. Doc for other things—stomach bugs and jet lag, for example.

  • Owing to its inertia, it would thus tend continually to lag behind the particles of matter about it.

  • Ecclesiastical is ever wont to lag somewhat in the rear of political improvement.

  • I was living in Lambeth at the house of an old lag, who practically took nobody but crooks as lodgers.

  • While he was urging on one part of the herd, the others would lag by the wayside and begin to graze.

  • They invariably keep up, and oftener come out ahead than they lag behind.