Cadence vs Lag - What's the difference?
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The act or state of declining or sinking.
* Milton
Balanced, rhythmic flow.
* Shakespeare
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The measure or beat of movement.
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The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
* Milton
* Sir Walter Scott
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(music) A progression of at least two chords]] which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to [[analogy, analogously as musical punctuation.
(music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
(speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
(dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
(fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
(running) The number of steps per minute.
(cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
(military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
(heraldry) cadency
(horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
To give a cadence to.
* {{quote-journal, journal=The Century, volume=53, year=1897, title=Why the Confederacy Failed, author=Don Carlos Buell, passage=there was besides, in an already dominating and growing element, a motive that was stronger and more enduring than enthusiasm —an implacable antagonism which acted side by side with the cause of the Union as a perpetual impelling force against the social conditions of the South, controlling the counsels of the government, and cadencing the march of its armies to the chorus:
*:: John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave,
*:: But his soul is marching on!}}
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To give structure to.
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* 1592 , William Shakespeare, King Richard III
(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
* Shakespeare
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
* Dryden
(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
* 2004 , May 10. The New Yorker Online,
(uncountable) Delay; latency.
* 1999 , Loyd Case, Building the ultimate game PC
* 2001 , Patricia M. Wallace, The psychology of the Internet
* 2002 , Marty Cortinas, Clifford Colby, The Macintosh bible
(British, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
(British, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
* 1934 , , Thank You, Jeeves
(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.
* Alexander Pope
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
* Shakespeare
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
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I
* 1616 , George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer
* 1717 , The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands
* 1798 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts
* 2004 , — The New Yorker, 5 April 2004
to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material
* c. 1974 , , The Building
(UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
* De Quincey
To cause to lag; to slacken.
* Heywood
As a verb cadence
is .As an adjective cadence
is rhythmic.As a noun lag is
location.cadence
English
Noun
- Now was the sun in western cadence low.
- golden cadence of poesy
- Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull / Seafaring men o'erwatched.
- The accents were in passion's tenderest cadence .
- The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence.
Synonyms
* (musical conclusion) clausulaDerived terms
(Derived terms) * perfect cadence / authentic cadence / closed cadence / standard cadence * perfect authentic cadence * imperfect authentic cadence * imperfect cadence / half cadence / open cadence * English cadence * Corelli cadence * Landini cadence / under-third cadence * Phrygian cadence / Phrygian half cadence * plagal cadence / amen cadence * interrupted cadence / deceptive cadence / surpise cadence * Andalusian cadence * drum cadence * ring cadenceSee also
* Tierce de PicardieVerb
(cadenc)lag
English
Adjective
- Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried.
- the lag end of my life
- lag souls
Noun
- During the Second World War, for instance, the Washington Senators had a starting rotation that included four knuckleball pitchers. But, still, I think that some of that was just a generational lag .
- Whatever the symptom, lag is a drag. But what causes it? One cause is delays in getting the data from your PC to the game server.
- When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.
- Latency, or lag , is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.
- On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose that an old lag like myself would have been getting used to it by now.
- the lag of all the flock
- the common lag of people
Usage notes
In casual use, lag' and (latency) are used synonymously for “delay between initiating an action and the effect”, with '''lag''' more casual. In formal use, ''latency'' is the technical term, while ' lag is used when latency is greater than usual, particularly in internet gaming.Synonyms
* (delay) latencyDerived terms
* time lag * jet lag * lagging jacket * lag screwVerb
(lagg)- Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag , / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe.
- Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost
- While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find.
- Brown skeletons of leaves that lag / My forest-brook along
- Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan.
- Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.
- She lags us if we poach.
- To lag his flight.