tag
IPA: tˈæg
noun
- A small label.
- (playground games, uncountable) A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it".
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- A type of cardboard.
- Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
- A sheep in its first year.
- (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- (slang) A person's name.
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.
- Initialism of tree-adjoining grammar.
- Acronym of touch and go.
verb
- (transitive) To label (something).
- (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
- (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- (transitive, Internet) 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.
- (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- To fasten; to attach.
adjective
- (poker) Tight (inclined to play only strong starting hands and fold otherwise) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
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Examples of "tag" in Sentences
- The author removed the tag.
- The image is improperly tagged.
- The tag is applied to the signal.
- It is tantamount to deleting the tag.
- The tags are unsightly and unhelpful.
- The alternative is to tag the problem.
- The tag is adequate for the licensing.
- The proliferation of tags is egregious.
- Johnny I read his name tag was immediately defensive.
- A tag is supposed to be an inducement for a discussion.
- The opposite of responsible tagging is of course irresponsible tagging.
- Matching an XHTML/XML tag (via immike. net) function get_tag ($tag, $xml) {
- ; '' '% tag%' '': A sanitized version of the tag name (tag slug field on New/Edit Tag panel).
- Perfect example is when I see templates where the title tag is coded in h2 when h1 would be a little better.
- Ellie, who has kept traces of her Midlands accent, is nervous as she talks, and fiddles with the name tag round her neck.
- To help that user pinpoint exactly what he or she was looking for, each site features a summary just below the title tag, which is supposed to describe what the user will find on that page.