tag
Pronunciation: /tæɡ/
The English word “tag” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- A small label.
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
- The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- A person's name.
- 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.
- An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- Signature.
- Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- A type of cardboard.
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.
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