Lagged vs. Logged — What's the Difference?

To fail to keep up a pace; straggle

A usually large section of a trunk or limb of a fallen or felled tree.

To proceed or develop with comparative slowness

A long thick section of trimmed, unhewn timber.

To weaken or slacken; flag

A device trailed from a ship to determine its speed through the water.

(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.

A record of a ship's speed, its progress, and any shipboard events of navigational importance.

To fail to keep up with (another)

The book in which this record is kept.

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

A record of a vehicle's performance, as the flight record of an aircraft.

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

A record, as of the performance of a machine or the progress of an undertaking

To furnish or cover with lags.

To cut down, trim, and haul the timber of (a piece of land).

To arrest.

To cut (timber) into unhewn sections.

To send to prison.

To enter in a record, as of a ship or an aircraft.

An interval between one event or phenomenon and another

To travel (a specified distance, time, or speed)

A condition of weakness or slackening

To spend or accumulate (time)

A barrel stave.

To cut down, trim, and haul timber.

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

Simple past tense and past participle of log

A convict.

Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged.

An ex-convict.

Entered in a logbook.

Simple past tense and past participle of lag