Difference between Linger and Loiter

LINGER vs LOITER: VERB

Leave slowly and hesitantly
Move to and fro
Be about
Take one's time; proceed slowly
To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually.
To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytical thinking or discussion.
Remain present although waning or gradually dying

Be about
To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.

To remain feebly alive for some time before dying.
To proceed slowly; saunter.
To devote considerable time to something, especially in a leisurely fashion.
To continue or persist.
To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
To stay in a place or be slow in leaving it, often out of reluctance: : stay.

To wander as an idle vagrant.
To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
To stand idly about; linger without any purpose.
To violate a law or ordinance that prohibits persons from remaining in a given location without a clear purpose for an extended period of time, especially when behaving in a manner indicating a possible threat to persons or property in the vicinity.
To hover over or remain near an area.
To proceed slowly or with many stops.
To act slowly or with leisure; take one's time.

To make long; prolong; protract; delay; put off; defer.
To spend in an inactive or tedious manner; drag: with out, and sometimes away.
To remain in a place or a state for an unusual, undue, or unexpected length of time; defer action, movement, decision, etc., either from inclination or necessity; hold back; tarry; delay; loiter.
Be about a place without any apparent purpose
To hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time
Take one's time
Proceed slowly

Be about a place without any apparent purpose
To linger; be unduly slow in moving; delay; be dilatory; spend time idly.
Synonyms To lag, tarry, saunter, dilly-dally.
To consume or waste, as time, idly or carelessly: used with away: as, he loitered away most of his leisure.

Mill around, Mill about, Mess about, Lallygag, Hang around, Footle, Loaf, Lounge, Lollygag, Dally, Tarry, Loiter, Dawdle, Hover, Lurk

Congregate, Wander, Lag, Mess about, Hang around, Lallygag, Mill about, Footle, Mill around, Loaf, Lounge, Tarry, Lollygag, Linger, Lurk

Persist, Mill around, Mill about, Mess about, Lallygag, Hang around, Footle, Loaf, Lounge, Lollygag, Dally, Tarry, Loiter, Hover, Lurk

Congregate, Wander, Lag, Mill around, Mill about, Mess about, Lallygag, Hang around, Footle, Loaf, Lounge, Tarry, Lollygag, Linger, Lurk

The Lower school students won't have time to loiter around town all day.
Students will not be permitted to loiter in the hallways after school hours.
Students are not to sit in or loiter around the vehicles.
Students may not loiter in hallways, stairways, the cafeteria, or restrooms.
EVER AT LCI AND ANY OTHER FORUM THAT YOU LOITER, STALK.
Do not loiter outside the building, especially after dark.
Begin loiter at the specified Latitude and Longitude.
Foreigners loiter outside Anchorvale CC to watch g..
Students should not loiter in the parking lot.
Loiter, or be permitted to loiter, in or about any roomwherein any gambling game is operated or conducted.