Lag vs. Delay

late

(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.

(uncountable) Delay; latency.

One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

a prisoner, a criminal.

(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.

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

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

to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material

To transport as a punishment for crime.

(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

Example: ‘Came too lag to see him buried.’;

Last; long-delayed; - obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

One who lags; that which comes in last.

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

Example: ‘The common lag of people.’;

The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.;

See Graylag.

The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in an alternating circuit behind the impressed electro-motive force which produced it.

One transported for a crime.

To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

To cause to lag; to slacken.

To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.

To transport for crime.

Example: ‘She lags us if we poach.’;

the act of slowing down or falling behind

the time between one event, process, or period and another

one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;

Example: ‘The suspects were imprisoned without trial’; ‘the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life’;

throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

cover with lagging to prevent heat loss;

Example: ‘lag pipes’;

In online gaming, lag is a noticeable delay (latency) between the action of players (input) and the reaction of the server supporting the game, which has to be sent back to the client. The player's ability to tolerate lag depends on the type of game being played.

A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

Example: ‘the delay before the echo of a sound’;

(music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.

To put off until a later time; to defer.

To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.

Example: ‘The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.’;

(obsolete) To allay; to temper.

(obsolete) To dilute, temper.

(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

Example: ‘Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.’; ‘The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.’;

To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.

Example: ‘My lord delayeth his coming.’;

To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.

Example: ‘Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayedThe huddling brook to hear his madrigal.’;

To allay; to temper.

Example: ‘The watery showers delay the raging wind.’;

To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

Example: ‘There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten.’;

time during which some action is awaited;

Example: ‘instant replay caused too long a delay’; ‘he ordered a hold in the action’;

the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time

cause to be slowed down or delayed;

Example: ‘Traffic was delayed by the bad weather’; ‘she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform’;

act later than planned, scheduled, or required;

Example: ‘Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered’;

stop or halt;

Example: ‘Please stay the bloodshed!’;

slow the growth or development of;

Example: ‘The brain damage will retard the child's language development’;

make (someone or something) late or slow

Example: ‘the train was delayed’;

be late or slow; loiter

Example: ‘time being of the essence, they delayed no longer’;

postpone or defer (an action)

Example: ‘he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates’;

a period of time by which something is late or postponed

Example: ‘a two-hour delay’; ‘long delays in obtaining passports’;

the action of delaying or being delayed

Example: ‘I set off without delay’;

the time interval between the propagation of an electrical signal and its reception.

an electronic device which introduces a delay, especially in an audio signal.