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tag
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 (t  g)
KEY
NOUN:
- A strip of leather, paper, metal, or plastic attached to something or hung from a wearer's neck to identify, classify, or label:
sale tags on all coats and dresses.
- The plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace.
- The contrastingly colored tip of an animal's tail.
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Sports
A bright piece of feather, floss, or tinsel surrounding the shank of the hook on a fishing fly.
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- A dirty, matted lock of wool.
- A loose lock of hair.
- A rag; a tatter.
- A small, loose fragment:
I heard only tags and snippets of what was being said.
- An ornamental flourish, especially at the end of a signature.
- A designation or an epithet, especially an unwelcome one:
He did not take kindly to the tag of pauper.
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- A brief quotation used in a discourse to give it an air of erudition or authority:
Shakespearean tags.
- A cliché, saw, or similar short, conventional idea used to embellish a discourse:
These tags of wit and wisdom bore me.
- The refrain or last lines of a song or poem.
- The closing lines of a speech in a play; a cue.
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Computer Science
- A label assigned to identify data in memory.
- A sequence of characters in a markup language used to provide information, such as formatting specifications, about a document.
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Slang
A graffito featuring a word or words, especially the author's name, rather than a picture:
"Instead of a cursive linear tag, Super Kool painted his name along the exterior of a subway car in huge block pink and yellow letters"
(Eric Scigliano).
VERB:
tagged
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tag·ging
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tags
VERB:
tr.
- To label, identify, or recognize with or as if with a tag:
I tagged him as a loser.
See Synonyms at mark
1.
- To put a ticket on (a motor vehicle) for a traffic or parking violation.
- To charge with a crime:
The suspect was tagged for arson.
- To add as an appendage to:
tagged an extra paragraph on the letter.
- To follow closely:
Excited children tagged the circus parade to the end of its route.
- To cut the tags from (sheep).
- To add a taggant to:
explosives that were tagged with coded microscopic bits of plastic.
- To mark or vandalize (a surface) with graffiti:
tagged the subway walls.
VERB:
intr.
- To follow after; accompany:
tagged after me everywhere; insisted on tagging along.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English tagge, dangling piece of cloth on a garment, possibly of Scandinavian origin
OTHER FORMS:
tag ger
(Noun)
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