TAGGING

TAG

tag

(verb) provide with a name or nickname

tag, label, mark

(verb) attach a tag or label to; “label these bottles”

tag

(verb) touch a player while he is holding the ball

tag

(verb) supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes

chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track

(verb) go after with the intent to catch; “The policeman chased the mugger down the alley”; “the dog chased the rabbit”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

tagging

present participle of tag

Noun

tagging (plural taggings)

The act by which something is tagged.

Source: Wiktionary


TAG

Tag, n. Etym: [Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a prickle, point, tooth.]

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

2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.

3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.

4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.] Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.

5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Definition: A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.

Note: Frequently it is held in the private home or in a yard attached to a private home belonging to the seller. Similar to a yard sale or garage sale. Compare flea market, where used items are sold by many individuals in a place rented for the purpose.

Tag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Tagging.]

1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags. He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. Macaulay. His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word. Dryden.

2. To join; to fasten; to attach. Bolingbroke.

3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.

Tag, v. i.

Definition: To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.

Tag, n. Etym: [From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.]

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

30 April 2024

NURSE

(verb) treat carefully; “He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon”; “He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly”


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