What's the difference between lagger and tagger?

Lagger


Definition:

  • (n.) A laggard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mortality of 3000 male factory workers, 1400 laggers, and 700 women factory workers in east London has been studied.
  • (2) Laggers were employed on contract in increasing numbers in later years.
  • (3) A sub-group of 39 men, who were working as asbestos laggers or sprayers before 1957, was identified.
  • (4) The prevalence of pleural fibrosis ranged from 28% in continuously exposed workers to 1.9% in those with least exposure.Most cases of pulmonary fibrosis occurred in laggers and sprayers who had been continuously exposed for between 15 and 20 years.
  • (5) Grassroots organisers for the GMB and Unite unions were inundated with calls from members who wanted to join the industrial action erupting at the Lindsey oil refinery near Grimsby, where hundreds of welders, engineers, pipe-fitters and laggers had launched the biggest protest yet at the employment of foreign workers on energy construction projects.
  • (6) The campaign group described P&G as both a “market leader and a lagger”, for failing to drive change in the industry.
  • (7) A follow-up study of 162 men already working as insulators (laggers) in 1940 has been extended from 1965 to 1975.
  • (8) Mesothelioma was found to cluster in laggers, electricians, and shipyard workers, and nasal carcinoma in woodworkers.

Tagger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.
  • (n.) That which is pointed like a tag.
  • (n.) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.
  • (n.) A device for removing taglocks from sheep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At a time when 1970s subway taggers are flown to Paris to mark up Louis Vuitton stores, Banksy is criticized for making money.
  • (2) But when sentencing London tagger Daniel “Tox” Halpin to a 27-month jail sentence in 2011, the prosecutor told the jury: “He is no Banksy.
  • (3) I just flipped the dynamic: now the audience at home are my friends and the people who’ve come to see me are these taggers-on.
  • (4) The Tagger et alii technique was used for root canal filling and root resorption area.
  • (5) Graffiti artists in Bogotá are often even commissioned by shops or buildings to paint murals on their walls before taggers scrawl all over them.
  • (6) I've met Kristian on numerous occasions and I know him as a tagger, or what we'd call a bomber.
  • (7) I will be taking up offers for lessons from NYC and Cairo taggers, and next time take a stencil with me.