Lagging

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Insulation used to prevent heat diffusion, as from a steam pipe.
  • n. A wooden frame built especially to support the sides of an arch until the keystone is positioned.
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  • adj. falling behind, not keeping up the pace
  • adj. Occurring after; indicating the later phase of
  • n. The covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection
  • n. The material so used
  • v. Present participle of lag.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.
  • n. Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of walking or moving slowly, or of falling behind.
  • n. In architecture, the planking, consisting of narrow strips, extending from one rib of the centering of an arch, vault, or tunnel to another, and affording direct support to the voussoirs until the arch or vault is closed in.
  • n. In mining, strips of wood or light timbers laid across the stulls in the drifts to prevent fragments of rock from falling through.
  • n. In machinery, same as deading.
  • n. A covering for the face of a pulley, designed to increase its effective diameter or to augment the adhesion of the belt.
  • n. Same as lag, n., 7.
  • n. Nautical, the part of a barrel-stave beyond the head. Also spelled laggin.
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  • n. used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    insulation    insulating material    insulant   
    Cross Reference
    lagging of the tides   
    Variant
    deading    cleading   
    Form
    lagging indicator   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    delay    retardation    hysteresis   
    Verb Stem
    lag   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bagging    bragging    dragging    flagging    nagging   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    leading    concurrent   
     
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