Lag vs. Log

Lagadjective

late

Lagadjective

(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.

Lagadjective

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

Lagnoun

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

Lagnoun

(uncountable) Delay; latency.

Lagnoun

One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

Lagnoun

a prisoner, a criminal.

Lagnoun

(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.

Lagnoun

One who lags; that which comes in last.

Lagnoun

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

Lagnoun

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.

Lagnoun

A bird, the greylag.

Lagverb

to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind

Lagverb

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

Lagverb

To transport as a punishment for crime.

Lagverb

(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.

Lagadjective

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

Lagadjective

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

Lagadjective

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

Lagnoun

One who lags; that which comes in last.

Lagnoun

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

Lagnoun

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

Lagnoun

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.;

Lagnoun

See Graylag.

Lagnoun

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.

Lagnoun

One transported for a crime.

Lagverb

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

Lagverb

To cause to lag; to slacken.

Lagverb

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

Lagverb

To transport for crime.

Lagnoun

the act of slowing down or falling behind

Lagnoun

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

Lagnoun

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

Lagverb

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

Lagverb

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

Lagverb

throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

Lagverb

cover with lagging to prevent heat loss;

Lag

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.

Lognoun

The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.

Lognoun

Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.

Lognoun

Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.

Lognoun

(nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.

Lognoun

(figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.

Lognoun

A longboard.

Lognoun

(figuratively) A rolled cake with filling.

Lognoun

(mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

Lognoun

(vulgar) A piece of feces.

Lognoun

A logbook, or journal of a vessel (or aircraft)'s progress

Lognoun

A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.

Lognoun

(computer science) Specifically, an append-only sequence of records written to disk

Lognoun

A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about ⅓{{nbsp}}L).

Lognoun

logarithm.

Logverb

(transitive) To cut trees into logs.

Logverb

(transitive) To cut down (trees).

Logverb

(intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.

Logverb

(transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.

Logverb

(transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook

Logverb

(transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by chip log.

Lognoun

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.

Lognoun

A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.

Lognoun

An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.

Lognoun

The record of the rate of speed of a ship or airplane, and of the course of its progress for the duration of a voyage; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.

Lognoun

A record and tabulated statement of the person(s) operating, operations performed, resources consumed, and the work done by any machine, device, or system.

Lognoun

A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

Lognoun

A record of activities performed within a program, or changes in a database or file on a computer, and typically kept as a file in the computer.

Logverb

To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.

Logverb

To record any event in a logbook, especially an event relating to the operation of a machine or device.

Logverb

To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.

Logverb

To move to and fro; to rock.

Lognoun

a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches

Lognoun

large log at the back of a hearth fire

Lognoun

the exponent required to produce a given number

Lognoun

a written record of messages sent or received;

Lognoun

a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)

Lognoun

measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water

Logverb

enter into a log, as on ships and planes

Logverb

cut lumber, as in woods and forests

Lognoun

a part of the trunk or a large branch of a tree that has fallen or been cut off

Lognoun

an official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft

Lognoun

a regular or systematic record of incidents or observations

Lognoun

a set of claims for improved pay or conditions, lodged by a trade union on behalf of workers

Lognoun

an apparatus for determining the speed of a ship, originally one consisting of a float attached to a knotted line that is wound on a reel, the distance run out in a certain time being used as an estimate of the vessel's speed.

Lognoun

the Ranfurly Shield, an interprovincial rugby union trophy competed for annually in New Zealand

Lognoun

short for logarithm

Logverb

enter (an incident or fact) in the log of a ship or aircraft or in another systematic record

Logverb

(of a ship, aircraft, or pilot) achieve (a certain distance, speed, or time)

Logverb

make a systematic recording of events, observations, or measurements

Logverb

cut down (an area of forest) in order to exploit the timber commercially