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Lag


Definition:

  • (a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
  • (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.

Lang


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) Long.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several investigators have attempted to correlate chromosomal abnormalities with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CLS), but none of them have been conclusive.
  • (2) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (3) We spent a lot of time there and would bar hop all around Camden, ending up at Marathon for a kebab as it was always the last place open.’ Photograph: Robert Lang Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘This is Loraine, when late one night we ended up at a friend’s house who had been given a lifesize medical skeleton.
  • (4) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
  • (5) It was through Lange’s vision and determination, along with that of many others, that this became possible.
  • (6) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Tim Lang , professor of food policy at London's City University, said there were deeper structural issues to global food market price rises that politicians were not taking seriously and which were hurting the poor disproportionately.
  • (7) Lang was scheduled to give evidence later on Thursday.
  • (8) An Arabic version of the 108 item Wolpe-Lang Fear Survey Schedule (FSS III) was administered to four Egyptian groups of undergraduates, in order to estimate test reliability.
  • (9) Some have speculated that it may be a clever trap because, if the children are liable for capital gains tax and are forced to sell their shares, the only person they can sell to is a lineal descendent of Lang Hancock – that is, Gina Rinehart.
  • (10) Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy revealed that insertion of 20 alpha-hydroxycholesterol into human erythrocyte membranes (10% of total membrane sterol) immobilized the lipid acyl chains to a degree equivalent to enriching total membrane cholesterol by 50% (Rooney, M.W., Lange, Y. and Kauffman, J.W.
  • (11) "It is mostly women who live in isolated and mountainous areas who are being trafficked across the border, because there is no information for us," said 18-year-old Lang, from the Tay ethnic minority, who walked across the border illegally and was sold to a Chinese family by a friend.
  • (12) The predicted sigma 2 polypeptides of the Lang and Dearing strains display 98 percent homology at the amino acid level.
  • (13) Dhu was seen and discharged in under an hour; the recorded diagnosis, from Dr Anne Lang, was of “behavioural gain”, although Lang told the court her actual diagnosis was musculoskeletal pain.
  • (14) We present a mother and child affected with Cornelia de Lange syndrome and raise the possibility of autosomal dominant inheritance.
  • (15) I accepted that she did have pain but my clinical impression was that she was a normal young lady,” Lang said, adding that her notes, which have been criticised as brief, reflected both the business of the emergency department that night and her believe that Dhu was generally well.
  • (16) Cornelia de Lange syndrome is a collection of congenital anomalies.
  • (17) I had absolutely no idea that she was as sick as she was.” Lang said she was told by police that Dhu had been fine when arrested, and that, “after she found out that she would have to spend time incarcerated there was a directly proportional increase with her pain and anxiety”.
  • (18) The "De Lange" curves measured in this way can be described by a first-order high-pass filter in combination with a fourth-order low-pass filter.
  • (19) Trudie Lang, professor of global health research at Oxford University, said it was important that the response from the research community was faster than with Ebola.
  • (20) The author then contrasts the approach described with positions taken by Langs, Gill and Sandler, and discusses why Freud's recommendations may have been neglected.

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