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Lag vs Ping - What's the difference?

lag | ping |

As nouns the difference between lag and ping

is that lag is a gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency while ping is a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

As verbs the difference between lag and ping

is that lag is to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind while ping is to make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.

As an adjective lag

is late.

lag

English

Adjective

  • late
  • * 1592 , William Shakespeare, King Richard III
    • Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried.
  • (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the lag end of my life
  • Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
  • * Dryden
    • lag souls

    Noun

  • (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
  • * 2004 , May 10. The New Yorker Online,
    • 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 .
  • (uncountable) Delay; latency.
  • * 1999 , Loyd Case, Building the ultimate game PC
    • 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.
  • * 2001 , Patricia M. Wallace, The psychology of the Internet
    • When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.
  • * 2002 , Marty Cortinas, Clifford Colby, The Macintosh bible
    • Latency, or lag , is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.
  • (British, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
  • (British, slang) a prisoner, a criminal.
  • * 1934 , , Thank You, Jeeves
    • 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.
  • (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 lag of all the flock
  • The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the common lag of people
  • 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.

    • 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) latency

    Derived terms

    * time lag * jet lag * lagging jacket * lag screw

    Verb

    (lagg)
  • to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
  • * 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Canto I
    • 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.
  • * 1616 , George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer
    • Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost
  • * 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
    • While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find.
  • * 1798 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts
    • Brown skeletons of leaves that lag / My forest-brook along
  • * 2004 , — The New Yorker, 5 April 2004
    • 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.
  • to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material
  • * c. 1974 , , The Building
    • Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.
  • (UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
  • * De Quincey
    • She lags us if we poach.
  • To cause to lag; to slacken.
  • * Heywood
    • To lag his flight.

    Derived terms

    * lagging * laggard

    See also

    * tardy

    Anagrams

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    ping

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
    • My car used to make an odd ping , but after the last oil change it went away.
  • (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels.
    • The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.
  • (networking) A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence.
    • The network is overloaded from all the pings going out.
  • (text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
    • I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.

    See also

    * beep * peep * ping pong * ACK * heartbeat

    Verb

  • To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound.
    • My car was pinging until my last oil change.
  • (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects.
  • (networking) To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility.
    • I'm pinging their server.
    The server pings its affiliates periodically.
  • (networking) To send a network packet to another host and receive an acknowledgement in return.
    • I can't ping their server: perhaps it's been switched off.
  • To send an email or other message to someone in hopes of eliciting a response.
    • I'll ping the insurance company again to see if they've received our claim.
  • (colloquial) To flick.
    • I pinged the crumb off the table with my finger.
  • (colloquial, sports, intransitive) To bounce.
    • The ball pinged off the wall and came hurtling back.
  • (colloquial, sports, transitive) To cause something to bounce.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running. }}
  • (colloquial, sports) To call out audibly.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=Septembe 24 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However, after an inside pass from Moody to Tom Croft and a surge from the England blind-side, number eight James Haskell was eventually pinged from in front of the posts for not releasing.}}

    See also

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