Difference between Lingers and Loiter

LINGERS vs LOITER: NOUN

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

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 proceed slowly or with many stops.
To act slowly or with leisure; take one's time.
To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
To wander as an idle vagrant.
To hover over or remain near an area.

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

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

Lags, 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

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Michael Slackman, TV Mystic Lingers in Saudi Jail.
Dates could change if coronavirus lingers into summer.
The legacy of involuntary sterilization lingers in California.
The impact of these policies still lingers today.
Niall lingers a little longer on this one.
Today, the red tape and corruption still lingers.
And Attorney General Jeff Sessions kind of lingers.
The garlic flavor just lingers and lingers in the mouth forever after eating just a little bit of this.
Once the cough starts, it lingers and lingers.

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.