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Definition of Tag

1. Verb. Attach a tag or label to. "Label these bottles"

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

3. Verb. Touch a player while he is holding the ball.

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

5. Verb. Provide with a name or nickname.

6. Noun. A small piece of cloth or paper.

7. Verb. Go after with the intent to catch. "They tag the car down the avenue"; "The dog chased the rabbit"

8. Noun. A game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser.

9. Verb. Supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes.

10. Noun. (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game).

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. Noun. A small label. ¹

2. Noun. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the others, who then becomes "it". ¹

3. Noun. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin. ¹

4. Noun. A type of cardboard. ¹

5. Noun. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the person who makes the graffiti. ¹

6. Noun. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag. ¹

7. Noun. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said"). ¹

8. Noun. (Chiefly American English) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers). ¹

9. Noun. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand. ¹

10. Noun. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language. ¹

11. Noun. (by extension Internet slang) A piece of text which is worded like an element of a markup language to provide context. ¹

12. Noun. (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. ¹

13. Verb. (transitive) To label (something). ¹

14. Verb. (transitive graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag. ¹

15. Verb. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep. ¹

16. Verb. (transitive baseball colloquial) To hit the ball hard. ¹

17. Verb. (transitive baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand. ¹

18. Verb. (transitive computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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

taffia taffias taffies taffrail taffrail log taffrail logs taffrails taffs taffy taffy apple

tafia tafias tafone tafoni tafsir tag (current term) tag-team tag along tag cloud tag clouds

tag end tag line tag off tag on tag question tag questions tag sale tag sales tag soup tag team

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