Lag vs. Laggy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lag and Laggy
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Lag
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.
Laggy
Having a delayed response to a change in the factors influencing it.
Gasoline prices usually show a laggier response to crude-oil price reduction than to crude-oil price increases.
Lag
To fail to keep up a pace; straggle
A hiker who lagged behind his companions on the trail.
Laggy
Tending to lag, or respond slowly because of network latency.
I've given up trying to play on that laggy server.
Lag
To proceed or develop with comparative slowness
A nation that lags behind its neighbors in economic development.
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Lag
To weaken or slacken; flag
My attention lagged when the lecturer changed subjects.
Lag
(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.
Lag
To fail to keep up with (another)
One horse lagged the others throughout the race.
Lag
To proceed or develop at a slower pace than (another)
"putting new money into sectors that have lagged the market" (Peter Lynch).
Lag
(Sports) In golf, to hit (a putt) so that it stops a short way from the hole and can then be tapped in.
Lag
To furnish or cover with lags.
Lag
To arrest.
Lag
To send to prison.
Lag
An interval between one event or phenomenon and another
"He wondered darkly at how great a lag there was between his thinking and his actions" (Thomas Wolfe).
Lag
A condition of weakness or slackening
A lag in interest.
Lag
A barrel stave.
Lag
A strip, as of wood, that forms a part of the covering for a cylindrical object.
Lag
A convict.
Lag
An ex-convict.
Lag
(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
Lag
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Lag
(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
Lag
(uncountable) Delay; latency.
Lag
One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
Lag
A prisoner, a criminal.
Lag
(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.
Lag
One who lags; that which comes in last.
Lag
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
Lag
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.
Lag
A bird, the greylag.
Lag
To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
Lag
To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer]].
Lag
To respond slowly.
My phone is starting to lag.
Lag
To transport as a punishment for crime.
Lag
To arrest or apprehend.
Lag
(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
Lag
Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
Came too lag to see him buried.
Lag
Last; long-delayed; - obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
Lag
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Lag
One who lags; that which comes in last.
Lag
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
The common lag of people.
Lag
The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
Lag
A stave of a cask, drum, etc.;
Lag
See Graylag.
Lag
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.
Lag
One transported for a crime.
Lag
To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
Lag
To cause to lag; to slacken.
Lag
To transport for crime.
She lags us if we poach.
Lag
The act of slowing down or falling behind
Lag
The time between one event, process, or period and another
Lag
One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
Lag
Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
Lag
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;
The suspects were imprisoned without trial
The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
Lag
Throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
Lag
Cover with lagging to prevent heat loss;
Lag pipes
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