TAG
adjEtymology Acronym of tight-aggressive.
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Card games, Poker Tight (inclined to play only strong starting hands and fold otherwise) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
- Antonyms
- LAG
- Related terms
- tight, loose, aggressive, passive
tag
nounalso spelled TAG/ˈtæɡ/ · [ˈtʰæɡ]
Etymology From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.
22 senses
- 1Physical appendage.
- 2A small label.
- 3A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- 4A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- 5Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress…
- 6A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a…
- 7Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to…
- 8Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer…
- 9The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus…
- 10The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the…
- 11The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- 12An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or…
- 13A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- 14A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned…
- 15A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification…
- 16A person's name.
- 17A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which…
- 18An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or…
- 19Signature.
- 20Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular…
- 21A type of cardboard.
- 22A sheep in its first year.
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Heading Physical appendage.
- He has a tag hung on his bag.
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Heading A small label.
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Heading A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
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Heading A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
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Heading Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
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Heading A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
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Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Heading, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
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Heading Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
- For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
› Last nonphysical appendage.
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Heading The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
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Broadcasting, Heading, Media, Television The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success, page 300:
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Heading The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
› Nonphysical label.
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Authorship, Broadcasting, Communications, Film, Heading, Journalism, Literature, Media, Publishing, Television, Writing Informal An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.(Can we date this quote?), michael, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):
- If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away(Can we date this quote?), Jane MacDonald, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):
1 more example
- You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.(Can we date this quote?), bart_...@hotmail.com, alt.fiction.original (Usenet):
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Computing, Engineering, Heading, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.
- The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.
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Computing, Engineering, Heading, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.
› Identity.
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Heading US A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.
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Heading Slang A person's name.
- What’s your tag?
› Involving being tagged physically.
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Heading A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
Children's games
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Ball games, Baseball, Games, Heading, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- The tag was applied at second for the final out.
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Heading Signature.
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A type of cardboard.
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A sheep in its first year.
- After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year1807, The Complete Farmer, or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
59 terms
backtag, betag, biotag, cryotag, detag, ditag, ear-tag, emotag, gamertag, geotag, hangtag, ink tag, keytag, nametag, nanotag, on tag, phone tag, telephone tag, pyrotag, rhyme-tag, skintag, slashtag, subtag, swing tag, tag alder, tag-along right, tag and rag, tagback, tagball, tagboard, tag cloud, tag day, tag end, tag group, taggy, tagholder, tagless, taglet, taglike, tagline, tag line, taglock, tagosphere, tag question, tag-rag, tag-rag and bobtail, tag rugby, tag sale, tagset, tagsonomy, tag soup, tagtail, tag team, tag-team, tagwise, tag wrestling, tag, you're it, toe-tag, toe tag- Hypernyms
- game
- Hyponyms
40 terms
accent tag, archery tag, bread tag, cashtag, dart tag, dialog tag, dog tag, ear tag, empty-element tag, entity tag, ETag, e-tag, fag tag, freeze tag, fusion tag, hashtag, HA-tag, ho tag, laser tag, meta tag, oak-tag, oak tag, paired-end tag, pet tag, price tag, producer tag, question tag, radio-tag, radio tag, ragtag, red tag, return tag, scaff tag, short tag, skin-tag, slag tag, tag strip, tone tag, treasury tag, zombie tag