tag

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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)

1. A small label.
2. A chasing game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch and touch 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. (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").

   Synonyms: dialogue tag, speech tag, tag line
8. (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
9. (television) The last scene of a TV program that often focuses on the program's subplot.
10. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
11. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."

12. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

14. (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.

15. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
16. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
17. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
18. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
19. A sheep in its first year.
20. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
21. (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)

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

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic תגא‎ (“crown‎”).

Noun

tag (plural tagin)

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

References

• tag at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ATG, GTA, TGA, gat

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Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• tage (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German tag, tac, from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. Cognate with German Tag, Dutch dag, English day, Icelandic dagur, Swedish dag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags).

Noun

tag m (plural taaghe)

1. (Sette Comuni) day

Declension

References

• “tag” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

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Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Noun

tag

1. day
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Tag. Dies.

Derived terms

• knauen tag

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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)

1. roof

Inflection

Related terms

• tække

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tak (“hold, grasp”).

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)

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

Inflection

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (since 1985).

Noun

tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)

1. tag

Inflection

Etymology 4

See tage (“to take”).

Verb

tag

1. imperative of tage

References

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

Noun

tag n (plural tags, diminutive tagje n)

1. tag

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Finnish

Noun

tag

1. Alternative form of tagi

Declension

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/
• Rhymes: -aɡ

Noun

tag m (plural tags)

1. tag

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːk/
• Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

tag

1. Imperative singular of tagen.

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Hungarian

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒɡ]
• Hyphenation: tag

Noun

tag (plural tagok)

1. member
2. limb

   Synonym: végtag

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tag (“piece of markup”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛɡ]

Noun

tag (plural tagek)

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

Declension

References

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Noun

tag

1. arm, hand

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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

1. day
2. age, lifetime
3. (politics) convention, congress
4. (in a religious context) judgement day

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Tag

  Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

  Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

  Swabian: Dag

• Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

  Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

  Mòcheno: ta

  Udinese: tach, ti

• Central Franconian: Daach

  Hunsrik: Daagh, taach

• East Central German:

  Upper Saxon: Dag

• German: Tag

  Esperanto: tago

• Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
• Rhine Franconian: Tach

  Pennsylvania German: Daag

• Vilamovian: taog
• Yiddish: טאָג‎ (tog)

References

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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)

1. day

   tag after tage

   day after day

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: tag, tac, dach
  • Alemannic German: Tag

    Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

    Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

    Swabian: Dag

  • Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

    Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

    Mòcheno: ta

    Udinese: tach, ti

  • Central Franconian: Daach

    Hunsrik: Daagh, taach

  • East Central German:

    Upper Saxon: Dag

  • German: Tag

    Esperanto: tago

  • Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
  • Rhine Franconian: Tach

    Pennsylvania German: Daag

  • Vilamovian: taog
  • Yiddish: טאָג‎ (tog)

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse tak.

Pronunciation

Noun

tag n

1. a grip; a hold (of something)

   Tappa inte taget

   Don’t lose your grip

   Släpp inte taget

   Don’t let go

2. a stroke (with an oar; in swimming)

   Ett tag till med åran

   One more stroke with the oar

3. a while, a moment, a minute, sec, second, tic

   Ett litet tag

   A little while, a second

Declension

Derived terms

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

Verb

tag

1. imperative of taga.

Alternative forms

• ta

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tak, by analogy with taga (“to take”). Also rendered as tak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʰɑ́ːɣ], [tʰáːɣ], [tʰǽːɣ]

  Rhymes: -áːɣ

Noun

tag n (definite singular tagjä, dative tagjän)

1. Grip, hold.
2. Advantage.

Alternative forms

• tak

Etymology 2

From Old Norse taug, tog, from Proto-Germanic *taugō, *tugą.

Noun

tag n (definite singular tagjä, dative tagjän)

1. A rope.

Synonyms

• raip

Etymology 3

Verb

tag

1. singular present of taga
2. singular imperative of taga