tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăg
ipa: /tæɡ/
ipa: /teɪɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: tags
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: He has a tag hung on his bag.
topics: heading
glosses: Physical appendage.
topics: heading
glosses: Physical appendage.
A small label.
topics: heading
glosses: Physical appendage.
A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
topics: heading
glosses: Physical appendage.
A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
topics: heading
glosses: Physical appendage.
Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
topics: heading
glosses: Physical appendage.
A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
heading
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Physical appendage.
Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
examples: text: For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
topics: heading
glosses: Physical appendage.
Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
topics: heading
glosses: Last nonphysical appendage.
The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
examples: text: Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.
ref: 2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success, page 300:
topics: broadcasting
heading
media
television
glosses: Last nonphysical appendage.
The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
antonyms: cold open
topics: heading
glosses: Last nonphysical appendage.
The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
examples: text: Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), michael, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):
text: If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Jane MacDonald, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):
text: You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), bart_...@hotmail.com, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):
topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
heading
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: Nonphysical label.
An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
synonyms: dialogue tag
speech tag
tag line
examples: text: The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.
text: The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.
topics: computing
engineering
heading
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Nonphysical label.
A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
examples: text: I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.
topics: computing
engineering
heading
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Nonphysical label.
A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
examples: text: The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.
topics: heading
glosses: Identity.
A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
examples: text: What’s your tag?
topics: heading
glosses: Identity.
A person's name.
topics: heading
glosses: Involving being tagged physically.
A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
synonyms: word: tips
word: it
examples: text: The tag was applied at second for the final out.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Involving being tagged physically.
An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
topics: heading
glosses: Signature.
examples: text: There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.
ref: 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques, page 124:
topics: heading
glosses: Signature.
Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
glosses: A type of cardboard.
examples: text: After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year
ref: 1807, The Complete Farmer, or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry, →OCLC:
glosses: A sheep in its first year.
Synonyms: word: dobby
word: it
word: hit
word: tig
word: tiggy
word: tuggy
word: touch
word: catch
word: chase
word: tick
word: tip
word: had
Hypernyms: word: game
Hyponyms: accent tag
archery tag
bread tag
cashtag
dart tag
dialog tag
dog tag
ear tag
empty-element tag
entity tag
ETag
e-tag
fag tag
freeze tag
fusion tag
hashtag
HA-tag
ho tag
laser tag
meta tag
oak-tag
oak tag
on tag
paired-end tag
pet tag
price tag
producer tag
question tag
radio-tag
radio tag
ragtag
red tag
return tag
scaff tag
short tag
skin-tag
slag tag
tag-along right
tag day
tag off
tag on
tag-rag
tag-rag and bobtail
tag rugby
tag sale
tag soup
tag strip
tag team
tag-team
tag up
tag wrestling
toe-tag
tone tag
treasury tag
zombie tag
Derived terms: ear-tag
ink tag
nametag
phone tag
telephone tag
swing tag
tag alder
tag and rag
tagball
tag cloud
tag end
tag group
tagless
tag line
tag question
tag-team
tag team
tag, you're it
toe tag
Related terms: chasey
dodgeball
paintball