tag

Plural: tagim, tagin, tags

Noun

• a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
• a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
  • "semantic tags were attached in order to identify different meanings of the word"
• a small piece of cloth or paper
• a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
• (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
• Physical appendage.
• Physical appendage.
• A small label.
• Physical appendage.
• A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
• Physical appendage.
• A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
• Physical appendage.
• Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
• Physical appendage.
• A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
• Physical appendage.
• Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
• Physical appendage.
• Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
• 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.
• Last nonphysical appendage.
• The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
• Last nonphysical appendage.
• The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
• Nonphysical label.
• An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
• Nonphysical label.
• A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
• 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.
• Identity.
• A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
• Identity.
• A person's name.
• 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.
• Involving being tagged physically.
• An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
• Signature.
• Signature.
• Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
• A type of cardboard.
• A sheep in its first year.
• A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.

Verb

Verb Forms: tagged, tagging, tags

• To attach a tag or identifying marker to something.
• attach a tag or label to
• touch a player while he is holding the ball
• provide with a name or nickname
• go after with the intent to catch
• supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
• To label (something).
• To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
• To remove dung tags from a sheep.
• To hit the ball hard.
• to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
• To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
• To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
• 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.
• To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
• To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
• To fasten; to attach.

Examples

• He has a tag hung on his bag.
• He managed to TAG the ’Q’ tile for a bonus play, much to his opponent’s dismay in Words With Friends.
• He really tagged that ball.
• He tagged the runner for the out.
• I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
• I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.
• Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.
• Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.
• The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.
• The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.
• The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.
• The tag was applied at second for the final out.
• What’s your tag?

Synonyms

chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, label, mark, rag, shred, tag end, tail, tatter, ticket, track, trail, catch, dialogue tag, dobby, had, hit, it, speech tag, tag line, tick, tig, tiggy, tip, tips, touch, tuggy

Antonyms

cold open, untag

Related Words

chasey, dodgeball, paintball