tag | |
1. n. A small label. | |
2. n. 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". | |
3. n. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin. | |
4. n. A type of cardboard. | |
5. n. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist. | |
6. n. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag. | |
7. n. (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought"). | |
8. n. (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song. | |
9. n. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers). | |
10. n. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand. | |
The tag was applied at second for the final out. | |
11. n. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language. | |
The tag provides a title for the Web page. | |
The tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang. | |
12. n. (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. | |
I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection. | |
13. n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely. | |
14. n. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it. | |
15. n. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue. | |
16. n. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. | |
17. n. A sheep in its first year. | |
18. n. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins. | |
19. n. (slang) A person's name. | |
What's your tag? | |
20. v. To label (something). | |
21. v. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag. | |
22. v. To remove dung tags from a sheep. | |
Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep. | |
23. v. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard. | |
He really tagged that ball. | |
24. v. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand. | |
He tagged the runner for the out. | |
25. v. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification). | |
I am tagging my music files by artist and genre. | |
26. v. To follow closely, accompany, tag along. | |
27. v. To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag). | |
28. v. To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags. | |
29. v. To fasten; to attach. | |
30. n. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls. | |