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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
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between lag and null
is that lag is location while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.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
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.