Definition of Tag

1. Noun. A label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc..

Exact synonyms: Ticket
Generic synonyms: Label
Specialized synonyms: Dog Tag, Dog Tag, Name Tag, Price Tag

2. Verb. Attach a tag or label to. "Label these bottles"
Exact synonyms: Label, Mark
Related verbs: Mark
Generic synonyms: Attach
Specialized synonyms: Brand, Brandmark, Trademark, Point, Point, Point, Calibrate, Code, Badge
Derivative terms: Label, Label, Marking
Also: Mark Down, Mark Up

3. Noun. A label associated with something for the purpose of identification. "Semantic tags were attached in order to identify different meanings of the word"
Generic synonyms: Label

4. Verb. Touch a player while he is holding the ball.
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Generic synonyms: Touch
Specialized synonyms: Nab

5. Noun. A small piece of cloth or paper.
Exact synonyms: Rag, Shred, Tag End, Tatter
Generic synonyms: Piece Of Cloth, Piece Of Material
Specialized synonyms: Pine-tar Rag
Derivative terms: Shred

6. Verb. Provide with a name or nickname.
Generic synonyms: Call, Name

7. Noun. A game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser.
Generic synonyms: Child's Game

8. Verb. Go after with the intent to catch. "They tag the car down the avenue"; "The dog chased the rabbit"
Exact synonyms: Chase, Chase After, Dog, Give Chase, Go After, Tail, Track, Trail
Specialized synonyms: Tree, Quest, Hound, Hunt, Trace, Run Down
Generic synonyms: Follow, Pursue
Derivative terms: Chase, Chaser, Chaser, Tail, Tailing, Track, Tracker, Tracking, Trailing
Also: Chase Away, Tag Along

9. Noun. (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game).
Generic synonyms: Touch, Touching
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game

10. Verb. Supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes.
Category relationships: Poesy, Poetry, Verse
Generic synonyms: Rhyme, Rime

Definition of Tag

1. n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

2. v. t. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.

3. v. i. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.

4. n. A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

Definition of Tag

1. to provide with a tag (an identifying marker) [v TAGGED, TAGGING, TAGS]

Medical Definition of Tag

1. See: label, tracer. 2. A small outgrowth or polyp. Anal skin tag, a fibrous polyp of the anus. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tag

taffeties
taffetized
taffety
taffia
taffias
taffies
taffrail
taffrails
taffrail log
taffy
taffy apple
tafia
tafias
Taft
tag (current term)
tag (current term)
Tagalog
tagalong
tagalongs
tagamet
Tagamet
tagasaste
tagatose
tagatose kinase
tagaturonate reductase
tagbelt
tagboard
tagboards
tagetes
Tageteste

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