Lac vs. Lag — What's the Difference?

Lac is the resinous secretion of a number of species of lac insects, of which the most commonly cultivated is Kerria lacca. Cultivation begins when a farmer gets a stick that contains eggs ready to hatch and ties it to the tree to be infested.

In online gaming, lag is a noticeable delay (latency) between the action of players (input) and the reaction of the server supporting the game, which has to be sent back to the client. The player's ability to tolerate lag depends on the type of game being played.

A resinous secretion of lac insects, used in making shellac.

To fail to keep up a pace; straggle

Variant of lakh.

To proceed or develop with comparative slowness

A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.

To weaken or slacken; flag

(slang) Cadillac

(Games) To determine the order of play by hitting or shooting a ball toward a mark, as in marbles or billiards, with the player whose ball stops closest to the mark going first.

Laceration.

To fail to keep up with (another)

One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.

To proceed or develop at a slower pace than (another)

A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Laccifer lacca (formerly Coccus lacca), a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.

(Sports) In golf, to hit (a putt) so that it stops a short way from the hole and can then be tapped in.

Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax

To furnish or cover with lags.

To arrest.

To send to prison.

An interval between one event or phenomenon and another

A condition of weakness or slackening

A barrel stave.

A strip, as of wood, that forms a part of the covering for a cylindrical object.

A convict.

An ex-convict.

(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.

(uncountable) Delay; latency.

One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

A prisoner, a criminal.

(snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.

One who lags; that which comes in last.

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.

A bird, the greylag.

To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.

To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer]].

To respond slowly.

To transport as a punishment for crime.

To arrest or apprehend.

(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

Last; long-delayed; - obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

One who lags; that which comes in last.

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

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.;

See Graylag.

The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in an alternating circuit behind the impressed electro-motive force which produced it.

One transported for a crime.

To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

To cause to lag; to slacken.

To transport for crime.

The act of slowing down or falling behind

The time between one event, process, or period and another

One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;

Throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

Cover with lagging to prevent heat loss;