Lag vs Leave - What's the difference?
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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
To have a consequence or remnant.
#To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
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#*:The foot / That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.
(lb) To depart; to separate from.
#To let be or do without interference.
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#(lb) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
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#(lb) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
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#(lb) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
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(lb) To transfer something.
#(lb) To transfer possession of after death.
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#(lb) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
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#(lb) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
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To remain (behind); to stay.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) V:
*:When he had leeft speakynge, he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nette to make a draught.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Now leave complaining and begin your tea.
(cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
(billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
* 1890 February 27,
Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
(senseid)(dated, or, legal) Permission.
(dated) Farewell, departure.
To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
(rare) To produce leaves or foliage.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed.
* 1868 , , The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám , 2nd edition:
(obsolete) To raise; to levy.
* Spenser
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As nouns the difference between lag and leave
is that lag is location while leave is (cricket) the action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball or leave can be permission to be absent; time away from one's work.As a verb leave is
to have a consequence or remnant or leave can be to give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant or leave can be (rare) to produce leaves or foliageoxford english dictionary , 2nd ed or leave can be (obsolete) to raise; to levy.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.
Derived terms
* lagging * laggardSee also
* tardyAnagrams
* * ----leave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) leven, from (etyl) (whence Danish levne). More at .Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Derived terms
* beleave * forleave * leave behind * leave for dead * leave no stone unturned * leave nothing in the tank * leave someone hanging * leave someone high and dry * leave someone holding the bag * leave off * leave out * leave in the lurch * leave well enough alone * not leave one's thought * overleave * up and leaveNoun
(en noun)"Slosson's Close Shave"], in [[w:New York Times, The New York Times]:
- Having counted 38 points he tried a beautiful out of the corner, hit the first ball just a trife too hard and kissed his own ball off just when victory seemed to be his. The leave was unfortunate for Ives. Slosson played brilliantly and ran the game out, a close winner, with 22 points.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) leve, from (etyl) . Related to (etyl) verlof, (etyl) Erlaubnis. See also (l).Noun
(-)- I've been given three weeks' leave by my boss.
- Might I beg leave to accompany you?
- The applicant now seeks leave to appeal and, if leave be granted, to appeal against these sentences.
- I took my leave of the gentleman without a backward glance.
Derived terms
* administrative leave * annual leave * by your leave * compassionate leave * leave of absence * maternity leave * on leave * parental leave * paternity leave * shore leave * sick leave * take French leave * take leave * ticket-of-leaveEtymology 3
From (etyl) leven, from (etyl) .Verb
Etymology 4
From (etyl) leven, from . More at (l).Verb
- Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:
- Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
Synonyms
* leaf (verb)Etymology 5
See levy.Verb
- An army strong she leaved .
