(a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
(a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
(n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.
(n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
(n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
(n.) 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.
(n.) See Graylag.
(v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
(v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.
(v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
(n.) One transported for a crime.
(v. t.) To transport for crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the moment we are, if anything, slightly lagging."
(2) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
(3) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(4) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
(5) Supplementation of neuraminidase-treated Lp(a) with N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA) at concentrations comparable to the naturally occurring amounts of NANA in the Lp(a) protein moiety led to an increase of the lag-phase yielding values which were comparable to those observed with native Lp(a).
(6) A more specific differentiation, as indicated by the sharp increase in GAD levels which was concurrent with an increase in interneuronal contacts, lagged behind the initial growth.
(7) It appears that the decline in plasma IGF-I lags considerably behind the sharp fall in plasma GH levels and expression of hepatic IGF-I mRNA.
(8) This causes a time lag, with money continuing to be taken until the SLC is made aware that the debt has been settled.
(9) The drug-induced effect changes lagged behind the plasma drug level changes.
(10) The first transient increase in conductance developed with very short time lag (2-10 s) after serum addition, while the period between successive transients was 30-90 s, being remarkably constant in each particular cell.
(11) The Bank of Spain estimates that GDP grew 0.1% in the first quarter of this year, ending seven consecutive quarters of contraction but lagging the rest of the euro area's recovery by six months.
(12) Lysine was unique in accelerating gluconeogenesis beyond the lag period.
(13) This pattern is still 2 months off from the actual birth distribution; however, the retrospective data probably underestimate the real pregnancy lag.
(14) For example, after imported mouse dihydrofolate reductase (a soluble monomeric enzyme) had been released from mhsp70, folding to a protease resistant conformation occurred only after a lag and was much slower than the release.
(15) The company lagged "far behind its major competitors, with zero reporting of its energy or environmental footprint to any source or stakeholder", the report said.
(16) The temporal lag varied inversely with the dose and was more pronounced with HA.
(17) This multistage schema would account for the lag between injury and restenosis and the failure of chronic antithrombotic therapy to prevent this process.
(18) The results are interpreted as follows: bleomycin induces chromosomal aberrations that in turn give rise to micronuclei by means of lagging chromatin, main and micronuclei eventually become asynchronous in their cell cycles and mitosing main nuclei induce PCC in the micronuclei.
(19) Furthermore, the rate of superoxide generation decreased after a prolonged lag period.
(20) The hypothesis that a measure of intellectual speed assessed at one point in time would predict intellectual achievement at a later point in time was evaluated with a time-lagged cross-correlational analysis, an application of causal modeling techniques.
Lah
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Seven patients (12.5%) developed LAH between the first and third hospital day, while 49 patients did not.
(2) Fibrin deposition, assessed both by immunohistology and quantitation of radioactive fibrin extracted from skin test sites, was increased by 30% when OVA was tested in the presence of LAH.
(3) Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) production is severely defective in L-LAK-HCC but not defective in H-LAH-HCC.
(4) According to the results of electrocardiogram patients were subdivided into 4 groups: normal electrocardiogram, isolated left auricular hypertrophy (LAH), isolated left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and major ST-T wave changes.
(5) Of these, five had electrocardiographic bifascicular block (RBBB with LAH) with or without additional 1 degrees A-V block.
(6) Attention has been called to the fact that, with the onset of LAH conduction, the T-wave axis shifts oppositely to that of the QRS, thus widening the QRS-T angle in the frontal plane by about 95 degrees.
(7) LAH has been shown to conceal LVH on precordial leads, while it tends to make LVH more manifest on limb leads.
(8) One connection between sport and fashion writing is that they come with very lazy gender assumptions: sportsing for the boys and lah-di-dah clothes for the gals.
(9) The incidence of left anterior hemiblock (LAH), right bundle branch block (RBBB), left bundle branch block (LBBB) and RBBB+LAH was 12.2, 4.2, 3.8 and 2.5%, respectively.
(10) Recurrent pump failure with occasional outcome is more common in cases with RBBB and LAH than in other types of blocks.
(11) T-waves are lowered but not inverted in lead I as a result of LAH conduction and precordial leads are variably but not significantly altered.
(12) Ninety-four percent had developed right bundle branch block (RBBB) and 16 percent had additional left anterior hemiblock (LAH).
(13) 131 subjects were studied: 34 of them were normal (control group); 30 were carriers of isolated LAH; 38 were carriers of isolated LVH; 29 showed a pattern of combined LVH and LAH.
(14) The time course of laccase production by the lah-1 mutant revealed that expression of 66-kilodalton laccase was repressed in conidia and derepressed during vegetative mycelial growth.
(15) Among these 53 LAH patients, only 20 desired a pregnancy.
(16) The critical factor in a bad late prognosis in patients with ECG evidence of RBBB and LAH may be with ECG evidence of RBBB and LAH may be the history of transient postoperative CHB.
(17) In the LAH + RBBB group, there was a higher mortality rate and frequent evolution toward complete A-V block.
(18) Slow depolarization elicited by repetitive activation of splanchnic and coeliac nerve trunks, at voltages supramaximal for the fast cholinergic responses, were recorded from about half of both phasic and tonic neurones, but only one of twenty-four LAH neurones.
(19) The relations between LAH and clinical, echographic and hemodynamic findings are specified.
(20) Relative amounts of laccase in the culture filtrate of the lah-1 mutant were much higher than those induced with cycloheximide in the wild-type strain, demonstrating high efficiency of the lah-1 mutant in production and secretion of laccase.