tag

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăg, IPA^(key): /tæɡ/
• (North American also) IPA^(key): /teɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

tag (plural tags)

1. A small label.
2. 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. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
4. A type of cardboard.
5. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
   • 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques (page 124)

     There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.

6. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
7. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").
8. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
9. (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.

10. (computing) 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.

11. (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.

12. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
13. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
14. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
15. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the Present State of Irelande:

      For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag

16. A sheep in its first year.
    • 1807, The Complete Farmer, or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry, OCLC 779076327:

      After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year

17. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
18. (slang) A person's name.

    What's your tag?

Verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

1. (transitive) To label (something).
2. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
3. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.

   Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.

4. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.

   He really tagged that ball.

5. (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.

6. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

   I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.

7. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
   • 1906, O. Henry, By Courier

     A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case.

8. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
9. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
   • Macaulay

     He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.

   • Dryden

     His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.

10. To fasten; to attach.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bolingbroke to this entry?)

Antonyms

• (computing): untag

Noun

tag (plural tagin)

1. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

Derived terms

• knauen tag

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)

1. roof

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)

1. hold, grasp, grip
2. stroke
3. tug, jerk
4. knack

Noun

tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)

1. tag

Verb

tag

1. imperative of tage

Declension

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒɡ]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: tag

Noun

tag (plural tagok)

1. member
2. limb

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛɡ]

Noun

tag (plural tagek)

1. (computing) tag (a piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)

Descendants

• German: Tag
• Yiddish: טאָג‎ (tog)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: tag
  • German: Tag
    • Pennsylvania German: Daag
    • → Esperanto: tago
  • Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
  • Vilamovian: taog
  • Yiddish: טאָג‎ (tog)

Declension

Derived terms

• få tag i
• hårda tag
• i första taget
• vara i tagen

Alternative forms

• ta