English Online Dictionary. What means tag? What does tag mean?
English
Etymology 1
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.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tăg, IPA(key): /tæɡ/
- (North American also) IPA(key): /teɪɡ/
- Rhymes: -æɡ
Noun
tag (plural tags)
- A small label.
- 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".
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- A type of cardboard.
- 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.
- 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques (page 124)
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- Synonyms: dialogue tag, speech tag, tag line
- (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- (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.
- 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.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
- A sheep in its first year.
- (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- (slang) A person's name.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- tagball
Related terms
- tag question
See also
(children's game to avoid being "it"):
- paintball
- dodgeball
Translations
Verb
tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)
- (transitive) To label (something).
- (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
- (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.
- (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- He really tagged that ball.
- (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.
- (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
- 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.
- 1906, O. Henry, By Courier
- (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- (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.
- Macaulay
- To fasten; to attach.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bolingbroke to this entry?)
Antonyms
- (computing): untag
Translations
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Aramaic תגא (“crown”).
Noun
tag (plural tagin)
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.
References
- tag at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- ATG, GTA, TGA, gat
Crimean Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).
Noun
tag
- day
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
- Tag. Dies.
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
Derived terms
- knauen tag
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”), from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-. Cognate with English thack, thatch, German Dach (“roof”). Akin to Latin toga (“garment”) and Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”).
Noun
tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)
- roof
Inflection
Related terms
- tække
Etymology 2
From Old Norse tak (“hold, grasp”).
Noun
tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)
- hold, grasp, grip
- stroke
- tug, jerk
- knack
Inflection
Etymology 3
Borrowed from English tag (since 1985).
Noun
tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)
- tag
Inflection
Etymology 4
See tage (“to take”).
Verb
tag
- imperative of tage
References
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English tag.
Pronunciation
Noun
tag n (plural tags, diminutive tagje n)
- tag
Finnish
Noun
tag
- Alternative form of tagi
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English tag.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taɡ/
- Rhymes: -aɡ
Noun
tag m (plural tags)
- tag
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taːk/
- Rhymes: -aːk
Verb
tag
- Imperative singular of tagen.
Hungarian
Etymology 1
Of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɒɡ]
- Hyphenation: tag
Noun
tag (plural tagok)
- member
- limb
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English tag (“piece of markup”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
Noun
tag (plural tagek)
- (computing) tag (a piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)
Declension
References
Meriam
Noun
tag
- arm, hand
Middle High German
Alternative forms
- tac, dach (northern)
Etymology
From Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ and Old Norse dagr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).
Noun
tag m
- day
- age, lifetime
- (politics) convention, congress
- (in a religious context) judgement day
Descendants
- Alemannic German: Tag, tag, tàg, tog
- Bavarian: Da, tach, ti, Dåg, Doch
- Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag
- Mòcheno: ta
- Central Franconian: Daach
- Hunsrik: Daagh, taach
- East Central German:
- Upper Saxon: Dag
- German: Tag
- Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
- Rhine Franconian: Tach
- Pennsylvania German: Daag
- Vilamovian: taog
- Yiddish: טאָג (tog)
References
Old High German
Alternative forms
- tac, *dag (northern)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ, Old Norse dagr, Old Dutch and Old Saxon dag, Old High German tag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taɡ/, /taɣ/
Noun
tag m (plural taga)
- day
- tag after tage
- day after day
- tag after tage
Declension
Descendants
- Middle High German: tag, tac, dach
- Alemannic German: Tag, tag, tàg, tog
- Bavarian: Da, tach, ti, Dåg, Doch
- Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag
- Mòcheno: ta
- Central Franconian: Daach
- Hunsrik: Daagh, taach
- East Central German:
- Upper Saxon: Dag
- German: Tag
- Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
- Rhine Franconian: Tach
- Pennsylvania German: Daag
- Vilamovian: taog
- Yiddish: טאָג (tog)
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse tak.
Pronunciation
Noun
tag n
- a grip; a hold (of something)
- Tappa inte taget
- Don’t lose your grip
- Släpp inte taget
- Don’t let go
- Tappa inte taget
- a stroke (with an oar; in swimming)
- Ett tag till med åran
- One more stroke with the oar
- Ett tag till med åran
- a while, a moment, a minute, sec, second, tic
- Ett litet tag
- A little while, a second
- Ett litet tag
Declension
Derived terms
- få tag i
- hårda tag
- i första taget
- vara i tagen
Verb
tag
- imperative of taga.
Alternative forms
- ta
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse tak, by analogy with taga (“to take”). Also rendered as tak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tʰáːɣ], [tʰǽːɣ]
- Rhymes: -áːɣ
Noun
tag n (definite singular taje, dative tajen)
- grip, hold
- advantage
Verb
tag
- singular present of taga
- singular imperative of taga