English Explanatory Dictionary

tag

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Physical appendage.
  2. A small label.
  3. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
  4. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
  5. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
  6. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
  7. Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
  8. Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
  9. Last nonphysical appendage.
  10. The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
  11. The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
  12. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
verb
  1. To label (something).
  2. To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
  3. To remove dung tags from a sheep.
  4. To hit the ball hard.
  5. to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
  6. To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
  7. To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
  8. To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
  9. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
  10. To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
  11. To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
  12. To fasten; to attach.
noun
  1. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
adj
  1. Tight (inclined to play only strong starting hands and fold otherwise) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
noun
  1. Initialism of tree-adjoining grammar.
  2. Acronym of touch and go.

Pronunciation

/ˈtæɡ/ [ˈtʰæɡ] En-au-tag.ogg /ˈteɪɡ/ [ˈtʰeɪɡ]

Word forms

tag tags tagging tagged tagin tagim more TAG most TAG

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.

Synonyms

dobby it hit tig tiggy tuggy touch catch chase tick tip had dialogue tag speech tag tag line tips

Antonyms

cold open untag LAG

Related words

chasey dodgeball paintball tight loose aggressive passive

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 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

Translations

Finnish: killutin
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