Tag vs Lag - What's the difference?

tag | lag |

In transitive terms the difference between tag and lag

is that tag is to fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags while lag is to cause to lag; to slacken.

As an adjective lag is

late.

tag

English

(wikipedia tag)

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)

A small label.

A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the others, who then becomes "it".

A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.

A type of cardboard.

Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the person who makes the graffiti.

A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.

An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").

(chiefly, US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).

(baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.

The tag was applied at second for the final out.

(computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

The </code> <strong>tag </strong> provides a title for the Web page. </em> </dd></dl> <dl><dd><em>The <code><sarcasm></code> <strong>tag </strong> conveys sarcasm in Internet slang. </em> </dd></dl> <li> (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content. </li> <dl><dd><em>I want to add genre and artist <strong>tags </strong> to the files in my music collection. </em> </dd></dl> <li> Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely. </li> <li> A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it. </li> <li> The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue. </li> <li> Something mean and paltry; the rabble. </li> <li> A sheep in its first year. </li> <dl><dd>(<i>Halliwell</i>) </dd></dl> <li> (<i>lb</i>) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins. </li> </div><div class='fourth-Verb'><h4>Verb</h4> (<i>tagg</i>) <li> To label (something). </li> <li> (graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag. </li> <li> To remove dung tags from a sheep. </li> <dl><dd><em>Regularly <strong>tag </strong> the rear ends of your sheep. </em> </dd></dl> <li> (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard. </li> <dl><dd><em>He really <strong>tagged </strong> that ball. </em> </dd></dl> <li> (baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand. </li> <dl><dd><em>He <strong>tagged </strong> the runner for the out. </em> </dd></dl> <li> (computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification). </li> <dl><dd><em>I am <strong>tagging </strong> my music files by artist and genre. </em> </dd></dl> <li> To follow closely, accompany, tag along. </li> <li>* <strong>1906 </strong>, O. Henry, <em> </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him <strong>tagged </strong> a boy carrying a suit-case. </i></dd></dl> <li> To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag). </li> <li> To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags. </li> <li>* Macaulay </li> <dl><dd><i>He learned to make long-<strong>tagged </strong> thread laces. </i></dd></dl> <li>* Dryden </li> <dl><dd><i>His courteous host / <strong>Tags </strong> every sentence with some fawning word. </i></dd></dl> <li> To fasten; to attach. </li> <dl><dd>(<i>Bolingbroke</i>) </dd></dl> </div><div class='fifth-Derived terms'><h5>Derived terms</h5> * tag along * tag cloud * tag end * ! * tag out * phone tag * telephone tag </div><div class='third-Etymology 2'><h3>Etymology 2</h3> From (<i>etyl</i>) . </div><div class='fourth-Noun'><h4>Noun</h4> (<i>tagin</i>) <li> A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls. </li> </div><div class='third-Anagrams'><h3>Anagrams</h3> * ---- </div></cite></div><div class='definition' style='width:43%;max-width:43%;float:left;text-align:left;'><cite tite="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lag"><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lag"><h1> lag </h1></a><div class='second-English'><h2>English</h2> </div><div class='third-Adjective'><h3>Adjective</h3> <li> late </li> <li>* <strong>1592 </strong>, William Shakespeare, <em>King Richard III </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too <strong>lag </strong> to see him buried. </i></dd></dl> <li> (obsolete) Last; long-delayed. </li> <li>* Shakespeare </li> <dl><dd><i>the <strong>lag </strong> end of my life </i></dd></dl> <li> Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. </li> <li>* Dryden </li> <dl><dd><i><strong>lag </strong> souls </i></dd></dl> </div><div class='third-Noun'><h3>Noun</h3> <li> (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency. </li> <li>* <strong>2004 </strong>, May 10. <em>The New Yorker Online, </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>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 <strong>lag </strong>. </i></dd></dl> <li> (uncountable) Delay; latency. </li> <li>* <strong>1999 </strong>, Loyd Case, <em>Building the ultimate game PC </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>Whatever the symptom, <strong>lag </strong> is a drag. But what causes it? One cause is delays in getting the data from your PC to the game server. </i></dd></dl> <li>* <strong>2001 </strong>, Patricia M. Wallace, <em>The psychology of the Internet </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>When the <strong>lag </strong> is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content. </i></dd></dl> <li>* <strong>2002 </strong>, Marty Cortinas, Clifford Colby, <em>The Macintosh bible </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>Latency, or <strong>lag </strong>, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming. </i></dd></dl> <li> (British, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime. </li> <li> (British, slang) a prisoner, a criminal. </li> <li>* <strong>1934 </strong>, , <em>Thank You, Jeeves </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose that an old <strong>lag </strong> like myself would have been getting used to it by now. </i></dd></dl> <li> (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. </li> <li> One who lags; that which comes in last. </li> <li>* Alexander Pope </li> <dl><dd><i>the <strong>lag </strong> of all the flock </i></dd></dl> <li> The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. </li> <li>* Shakespeare </li> <dl><dd><i>the common <strong>lag </strong> of people </i></dd></dl> <li> 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. </li> <li> A bird, the greylag. </li> </div><div class='fourth-Usage notes'><h4>Usage notes</h4> In casual use, <strong>lag<em>' and (<i>latency</i>) 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 ' </em>lag </strong> is used when latency is greater than usual, particularly in internet gaming. </div><div class='fourth-Synonyms'><h4>Synonyms</h4> * (<i>delay</i>) latency </div><div class='fourth-Derived terms'><h4>Derived terms</h4> * time lag * jet lag * lagging jacket * lag screw </div><div class='third-Verb'><h3>Verb</h3> (<i>lagg</i>) <li> to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind </li> <li>* <strong>1596 </strong>, Edmund Spenser, <em>The Faerie Queene, </em> Canto I </li> <dl><dd><i>Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did <strong>lag </strong>, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe. </i></dd></dl> <li>* <strong>1616 </strong>, George Chapman, <em>The Odysseys of Homer </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To <strong>lag </strong> thus hindmost </i></dd></dl> <li>* <strong>1717 </strong>, <em>The Metamorphoses of Ovid </em> translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands </li> <dl><dd><i>While he, whose tardy feet had <strong>lagg'd </strong> behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find. </i></dd></dl> <li>* <strong>1798 </strong>, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, <em>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>Brown skeletons of leaves that <strong>lag </strong> / My forest-brook along </i></dd></dl> <li>* <strong>2004 </strong>, — <em>The New Yorker, </em> 5 April 2004 </li> <dl><dd><i>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 <strong>lag </strong> behind Northern Europe and Japan. </i></dd></dl> <li> to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material </li> <li>* <strong>c. 1974 </strong>, , <em>The Building </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, <strong>lagged </strong> pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free. </i></dd></dl> <li> (UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime. </li> <li>* De Quincey </li> <dl><dd><i>She <strong>lags </strong> us if we poach. </i></dd></dl> <li> To cause to lag; to slacken. </li> <li>* Heywood </li> <dl><dd><i>To <strong>lag </strong> his flight. </i></dd></dl> </div><div class='third-Derived terms'><h3>Derived terms</h3> * lagging * laggard </div><div class='third-See also'><h3>See also</h3> * tardy </div><div class='third-Anagrams'><h3>Anagrams</h3> * * ---- </div></cite></div></div></div></div> </section>  </div>  <footer id="footer-block"> <div class="region region-footer"> <div id="block-block-23" class="block block-block"> <div class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons"></div> </div><div id="block-block-2" class="block block-block"><div align="center"> <p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"><img src="https://wikidiff.com/static/CC_88x31.webp" width="88px" height="31px" border="0" alt="Creative Commons by-sa 3.0"/></a> Text is available under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License;</a> additional terms may apply.<br/> <br/> See <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use">Wiktionary Terms of Use</a> for details.</p> </div> </div><div id="block-block-20" class="block block-block"><div align="center"><a href="/privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a> | <a href="/about-us">About Us</a> | <a href="/contact/contact_us">Contact Us</a></div></div></div> </footer></body> </html>