Lug vs Lag - What's the difference?
lug | lag |
The act of hauling or dragging.
That which is hauled or dragged.
Anything that moves slowly.
A lug nut.
(electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
A fool, a large man.
(UK) An ear or ear lobe.
A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
(slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
(UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
(UK, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16½ feet.
* Spenser
(nautical) A lugsail.
(harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
A lugworm.
To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry.
* Collier
To run at too slow a speed.
(nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
late
* 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
Lag is a derived term of lug.
In transitive terms the difference between lug and lag
is that lug is to run at too slow a speed while lag is to cause to lag; to slacken.As a proper noun Lug
is an alternative spelling of Lugh|lang=en.As an initialism LUG
is Linux user group.As an adjective lag is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- a hard lug
- The pack is a heavy lug .
- (Ascham)
- They put the lug on him at the courthouse.
- (Wright)
- Eight lugs of ground.
Derived terms
* (lug nut) lug nut * (large man) big lug * (protruding support) launch lugVerb
- Why do you always lug around so many books?
- They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
- When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.
Derived terms
* luggageReferences
* * * * ----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.
