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ALL meanings of tag

tag
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  • noun tag label on clothing 1
  • noun tag price label 1
  • intransitive verb tag attach, append 1
  • noun tag identify: as 1
  • noun tag chasing game 1
  • noun tag identification label 1
  • noun tag internet: label 1
  • noun tag license plate 1
  • noun tag graffiti: identifying symbol 1
  • transitive verb tag touch in chasing game 1
  • transitive verb tag on internet: label 1
  • transitive verb tag fit with electronic tag 1
  • noun tag a children's game in which one player chases the others in an effort to touch one of them, who then takes the role of pursuer. 1
  • noun tag Baseball. an act or instance of tagging a base runner. 1
  • verb with object tag to touch in or as if in the game of tag. 1
  • verb with object tag Baseball. to touch (a base runner) with the ball held in the hand or glove. to hit (a pitched ball) solidly. to make a number of hits or runs as specified in batting against (a pitcher): They tagged him for two hits in the first and three hits and two runs in the third. 1
  • verb with object tag Boxing. to strike (an opponent) with a powerful blow. 1
  • verb without object tag to follow closely; go along or about as a follower: to tag after someone; to tag along behind someone. 1
  • verb without object tag to write graffiti. 1
  • countable noun tag A tag is a small piece of card or cloth which is attached to an object or person and has information about that object or person on it. 0
  • countable noun tag An electronic tag is a device that is firmly attached to someone or something and sets off an alarm if that person or thing moves away or is removed. 0
  • verb tag If you tag something, you attach something to it or mark it so that it can be identified later. 0
  • countable noun tag You can refer to a phrase that is used to describe someone or something as a tag. 0
  • verb tag If you tag someone in a particular way, you keep describing them using a particular phrase or thinking of them as a particular thing. 0
  • countable noun tag A tag is a short phrase or saying that you quote from a book, speech, or piece of writing. 0
  • uncountable noun tag Tag is a children's game in which one child chases the others and tries to touch them. 0
  • noun tag a piece or strip of paper, plastic, leather, etc, for attaching to something by one end as a mark or label 0
  • noun tag an electronic device worn, usually on the wrist or ankle, by an offender serving a noncustodial sentence, which monitors the offender's whereabouts by means of a link to a central computer through the telephone system 0
  • noun tag a small piece of material hanging from or loosely attached to a part or piece 0
  • noun tag a point of metal or other hard substance at the end of a cord, lace, etc, to prevent it from fraying and to facilitate threading 0
  • noun tag an epithet or verbal appendage, the refrain of a song, the moral of a fable, etc 0
  • noun tag a brief quotation, esp one in a foreign language 0
  • noun tag a clause added on to another clause to invite the hearer's agreement or conversational cooperation. Tags are usually in the form of a question with a pronoun as subject, the antecedent of which is the subject of the main clause; as isn't it in the bread is on the table, isn't it? 0
  • noun tag a linguistic item added on to a sentence but not forming part of it, as John in are you there, John? 0
  • noun tag an ornamental flourish as at the end of a signature 0
  • noun tag the contrastingly coloured tip to an animal's tail 0
  • noun tag a matted lock of wool or hair 0
  • noun tag a strand of tinsel, wire, etc, tied to the body of an artificial fly 0
  • noun tag a graffito consisting of a nickname or personal symbol 0
  • verb tag to mark with a tag 0
  • verb tag to monitor the whereabouts of (an offender) by means of an electronic tag 0
  • verb tag to add or append as a tag 0
  • verb tag to supply (prose or blank verse) with rhymes 0
  • verb tag to trail (behind) 0
  • verb tag to name or call (someone something) 0
  • verb tag to cut the tags of wool or hair from (an animal) 0
  • verb tag to paint one's tag on (a building, wall, etc) 0
  • noun tag a children's game in which one player chases the others in an attempt to catch one of them who will then become the chaser 0
  • noun tag the act of tagging one's partner in tag wrestling 0
  • noun tag denoting or relating to a wrestling contest between two teams of two wrestlers, in which only one from each team may be in the ring at one time. The contestant outside the ring may change places with his team-mate inside the ring after touching his hand 0
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