tag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
authorship
ball-games
baseball
biochemistry
biology
broadcasting
chemistry
communications
computing
engineering
entertainment
film
games
gaming
graffiti
heading
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
literature
mathematics
media
microbiology
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
sports
television
visual-arts
writing
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.
Inflected forms:
form: tags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Physical appendage.
pos: noun
examples: He has a tag hung on his bag.
gloss: Physical appendage.
pos: noun
gloss: Physical appendage.
pos: noun
gloss: Physical appendage.
pos: noun
gloss: Physical appendage.
pos: noun
gloss: Physical appendage.
pos: noun
gloss: Physical appendage.
pos: noun
gloss: Physical appendage.
pos: noun
examples: For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag
gloss: Last nonphysical appendage.
pos: noun
gloss: Last nonphysical appendage.
pos: noun
examples: Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.
gloss: Last nonphysical appendage.
pos: noun
gloss: Nonphysical label.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 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.
gloss: Nonphysical label.
pos: noun
examples: The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.
The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.
gloss: Nonphysical label.
pos: noun
examples: I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.
gloss: Identity.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.
gloss: Identity.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: What’s your tag?
gloss: Involving being tagged physically.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Involving being tagged physically.
pos: noun
examples: The tag was applied at second for the final out.
gloss: Signature.
pos: noun
gloss: Signature.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: A type of cardboard.
pos: noun
gloss: A sheep in its first year.
pos: noun
examples: After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year
gloss: To label (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove dung tags from a sheep.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.
gloss: To hit the ball hard.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: He really tagged that ball.
gloss: to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.
gloss: To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He tagged the runner for the out.
gloss: To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
gloss: To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.
gloss: To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
gloss: To fasten; to attach.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
slang
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: dobby
it
hit
tig
tiggy
tuggy
touch
catch
chase
tick
tip
had
Related words: chasey
dodgeball
paintball
Derived words: backtag
betag
biotag
cryotag
detag
ditag
ear-tag
emotag
gamertag
geotag
hangtag
ink tag
nametag
nanotag
on tag
phone tag
telephone tag
pyrotag
rhyme-tag
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
tagosphere
tag question
tag-rag
tag-rag and bobtail
tag rugby
tag sale
tagset
tagsonomy
tag soup
tagtail
tag team
tag-team
tagwise
tag wrestling
tag, you're it
toe-tag
toe tag
keytag
bag and tag
immunotag
mistag
optotag
overtag
retag
tag along
taggability
taggable
tagged
taggee
tagger
tagging
tag off
tag on
tag out
tag up
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: killutin