lag
Speech parts
1. lag - Noun
2. lag - Adjective
3. lag - Verb
Meaning
See Graylag.
Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.
To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
To cause to lag; to slacken.
To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
One transported for a crime.
To transport for crime.
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The best estimates are that it takes a minimum of fifty thousand years for an adaptation to show up in the human genome. This is called evolutionary lag... Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had a very different lifestyle...
Just as many churches don't want to be seen as rejecting science, neither do they wish to lag too far behind public morality, and so they often tweak their religious "truths” to reflect the zeitgeist.
The point is, your request for a lawyer comes about two hundred years too late to be meaningful. The verbalisms lag behind the facts. Nevertheless, you shall have a lawyer-or a lollipop, whichever you prefer, after I am through questioning you. If I were you, I'd take the lollipop. More nourishing.
In economics the tendency of theory to lag behind observation seems to be endemic, and, as theorists, few of us consider this to be a "terrible state." But as noted by Lakatos (1978, p. 6), "where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes."
Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by jet lag.
You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.