Synonyms of the word

lag

• adj. late.
• adj. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
• adj. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
• n. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
• n. (uncountable) Delay; latency.
• n. (Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
• n. (Britain, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
• n. (snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball…
• n. One who lags; that which comes in last.
• n. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
• n. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the…
• n. A bird, the greylag.
• v. to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
• v. to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
• v. (Britain, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.

confine

• v. (transitive) To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
• v. To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on or with.
• n. Limit.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

dawdle

• v. (intransitive) To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
• v. (transitive) To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
• v. (intransitive) To move or walk lackadaisically.
• n. A dawdler.

delay

• n. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
• v. To put off until a later time; to defer.
• v. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
• v. (obsolete) To allay; to temper.
• v. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
• v. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

detain

• v. (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
• v. (transitive) To put under custody.
• v. (transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.
• v. (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.

flip

• n. A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
• n. A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
• n. (US, slang) A slingshot.
• v. (transitive) To throw (as in to turn over).
• v. (transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
• v. (transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To go berserk or crazy.
• v. To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
• v. (computing) To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
• interj. (Britain, mildly vulgar) used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.
• adj. (Britain, informal) Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose.
• adj. Sarcastic.
• adj. (informal) Disrespectful.
• n. A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a flip dog).

follow

• v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
• v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
• v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
• v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
• v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
• v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
• v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
• n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
• n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.

gaol

• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) Alternative spelling of jail.
• v. (Britain) Alternative spelling of jail.

holdup

• n. Alternative spelling of hold-up.

immure

• v. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
• v. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
• v. (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly…
• n. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.

imprison

• v. (transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine.

incarcerate

• v. To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
• v. To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.

interim

• adj. transitional.
• adj. temporary.
• n. A transitional or temporary period between other events.

interval

• n. A distance in space.
• n. A period of time.
• n. (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to…
• n. (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An intermission.
• n. (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
• n. (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.

jail

• n. A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially…
• n. (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
• n. (horse racing) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be…
• n. In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
• v. To imprison.

jug

• n. A serving vessel or container, circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a…
• n. The amount that a jug can hold.
• n. (slang) Jail.
• n. (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
• n. (New Zealand) A kettle.
• v. (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
• v. (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
• v. (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
• v. (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.

meantime

• n. The time spent waiting for another event; time in between.
• adv. during the interval; meanwhile.

meanwhile

• n. The time between two events.
• adv. During the time (that something is happening).
• adv. At the same time, but elsewhere.

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

remand

• n. The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
• n. The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
• v. To send a prisoner back to custody.
• v. To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
• v. (obsolete) To send back.

retardation

• n. The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance.
• n. The extent to which anything is retarded; the result of any retarding or delay; mental, social, or physical…
• n. That which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.
• n. (physics) Deceleration; reduction in the magnitude of velocity.
• n. (music) A suspension which resolves upwards.

sky

• n. (obsolete) A cloud.
• n. The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.
• n. The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate…
• n. Heaven.
• v. (sports) To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
• v. (colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well…
• v. (colloquial) To drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container.

slat

• n. A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath) or metal.
• n. (aeronautical) A movable control surface at the leading edge of a wing that when moved, changes the chord…
• v. To construct or provide with slats.
• v. To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
• v. (Britain, dialect) To split; to crack.
• v. To set on; to incite.

slowdown

• n. A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production, etc.

spline

• n. Long thin piece of metal or wood.
• n. A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide…
• n. A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner…
• n. (mathematics, computing) Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.
• n. (woodworking) A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to…
• v. (mathematics, computing) To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline.
• v. (engineering) To fit with a spline.
• v. (engineering) To fasten to or together with a spline.

stave

• n. One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides,…
• n. One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern…
• n. (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
• n. (music) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed;…
• n. A staff or walking stick.
• n. A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
• v. (transitive) To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in.
• v. (transitive) To push, as with a staff. With off.
• v. (transitive) To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off.
• v. (intransitive) To burst in pieces by striking against something.
• v. (intransitive) To walk or move rapidly.
• v. To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
• v. To furnish with staves or rundles.
• v. To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

toss

• n. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
• n. (cricket, soccer) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before…
• n. (Britain, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
• v. To throw with an initial upward direction.
• v. To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
• v. To agitate; to make restless.
• v. To subject to trials; to harass.
• v. To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
• v. (informal) To discard: to toss out.
• v. To stir or mix (a salad).
• v. (Britain, slang) To masturbate.
• v. (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables…
• v. (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
• v. (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
• v. (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
• v. (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle…