tag
nounEtymology
From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.
Definitions
Physical appendage.
- He has a tag hung on his bag.
Last nonphysical appendage.
Nonphysical label.
- Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.
- If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away
- You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.
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Identity.
- The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.
Involving being tagged physically.
Signature.
A type of cardboard.
A sheep in its first year.
- After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year
To label (something).
To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.
To hit the ball hard.
- He really tagged that ball.
to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.
To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- He tagged the runner for the out.
To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post…
To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case.
To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
- His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
To fasten
To fasten; to attach.
- a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy
To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to…
To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to establish exclusive or partial eligibility for loot, experience points achievements, etc.
- He keeps tagging my mobs and I miss out on all the drops.
- I can fight her for you, but you have to tag her if you want the achievement.
To repeat (the ending of a song)
To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag
A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
Tight (inclined to play only strong starting hands and fold otherwise) and aggressive…
Tight (inclined to play only strong starting hands and fold otherwise) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
Initialism of tree-adjoining grammar.
Acronym of touch and go.
The neighborhood
- synonymdobby
- synonymit
- synonymhit
- synonymtig
- synonymtiggy
- synonymtuggy
- synonymtouch
- synonymcatch
- synonymchase
- synonymtick
- synonymtip
- synonymhad
- antonymLAG
- neighborchasey
- neighbordodgeball
- neighborpaintball
- neighborgame
- neighboraccent tag
- neighborarchery tag
- neighborbread tag
- neighborcashtag
- neighbordart tag
- neighbordialog tag
- neighbordog tag
- neighborear tag
Derived
backtag, betag, biotag, cryotag, detag, ditag, ear-tag, emotag, gamertag, geotag, hangtag, ink tag, nametag, nanotag, on tag, phone tag, telephone tag, pyrotag, skintag, slashtag, subtag, swing tag, tag alder, tag-along right, tag and rag, tagback, tagball, tagboard, tag cloud, tag day, tag end, tag group, taggy, tagholder, tagless, taglet, taglike, tagline, tag line, taglock · +35 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tag. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA