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
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tăg, IPA(key): /tæɡ/
- (North American also) IPA(key): /teɪɡ/
- Rhymes: -æɡ
Noun
tag (plural tags)
- A small label.
- (playground games) A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, 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.
- 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
- (Can we date this quote?),
- (Can we date this quote?)
- (Can we date this quote?)
- (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- Antonym: cold open
- (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 to rule him "out."
- (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
Translations
See also
(children's game to avoid being "it"):
- chasey
- dodgeball
- paintball
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.
- (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- Antonym: untag
- To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- To fasten; to attach.
- a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
- they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy
- a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
Derived terms
- tag along
- tagged (adjective)
- tagger
- tagging (noun)
- tag out
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Aramaic תגא (“crown”). Doublet of taj.
Noun
tag (plural tagin)
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.
References
- “tag”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Further reading
- tag (Hebrew writing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- tag (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- ATG, GTA, TGA, gat
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
- tage (Luserna)
Etymology
From Middle High German tag, tac, from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. Cognate with German Tag, English day.
Noun
tag m (plural taaghe)
- (Sette Comuni) day
Declension
Related terms
- gabüarttag
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
Crimean Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).
Noun
tag
- day
Derived terms
- knauen tag
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”), from Proto-Germanic *þaką, cognate with Swedish tak, English thack, thatch, German Dach, Dutch dak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taːˀɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)]
Noun
tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)
- roof
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- tække
Etymology 2
From Old Norse tak (“hold, grasp”), cognate with Norwegian tak, Swedish tag. Derived from the verb taka (Danish tage).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta(ːˀ)ɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)], [ˈtˢɑw]
Noun
tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)
- hold, grasp, grip
- stroke (with an oar or with the armes in the water)
- handling, control
Declension
Etymology 3
Borrowed from English tag (since 1985).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taɡ/, [ˈtˢæɡ̊]
Noun
tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)
- tag (signature of a graffiti artist)
- (computing) tag (markup in an electronic file)
Declension
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta(ːˀ)/, [ˈtˢæ(ˀ)]
Verb
tag
- imperative of tage
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English tag.
Pronunciation
Noun
tag n (plural tags, diminutive tagje n)
- tag
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑɡ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ɡ]
- Rhymes: -ɑɡ
- Syllabification(key): tag
Noun
tag
- Alternative form of tagi
Declension
Further reading
- "tag" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).
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
- singular imperative of tagen
Hungarian
Etymology 1
Of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɒɡ]
- Hyphenation: tag
- Rhymes: -ɒɡ
Noun
tag (plural tagok)
- member
- Synonym of végtag (“limb”)
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English tag (“piece of markup”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
- Rhymes: -ɛɡ
Noun
tag (plural tagek)
- (computing) tag (a piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)
Declension
Etymology 3
Borrowed from English tag (“a piece of graffiti”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
- Rhymes: -ɛɡ
Noun
tag (plural tagek)
- tag (graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist)
Declension
References
Further reading
- tag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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
- 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 German: Dag
- German: Tag
- Esperanto: tago
- Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
- Rhine Franconian: Tach
- Pennsylvania German: Daag
- Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
- Vilamovian: taog
- Yiddish: טאָג (tog)
References
Old High German
Alternative forms
- tac, tak, dac, *dag — northern
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *dag, 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
Derived terms
- *ariōtag
- frīatag
- frōnotag
- tagalih
- tagalihhen
- tagalihhes
- tagalihhida
- sambaztag
- ziestag
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 German: Dag
- German: Tag
- Esperanto: tago
- Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
- Rhine Franconian: Tach
- Pennsylvania German: Daag
- Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
- Vilamovian: taog
- Yiddish: טאָג (tog)
- Alemannic German: Tag
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English tag, from Middle English tagge.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tak/
- Rhymes: -ak
- Syllabification: tag
- Homophones: tak, Tag
Noun
tag m inan
- (computing) tag (piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)
- Synonym: znacznik
Declension
Further reading
- tag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- tag in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English tag.
Pronunciation
Noun
tag f or m (plural tags)
- tag (type of graffiti)
- an RFID chip, especially one used to unlock electronic door locks, often carried as a key fob
- (computing) tag (a markup instruction)
Sumerian
Romanization
tag
- Romanization of 𒋳 (tag)
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse tak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɑːɡ/
Noun
tag n
- a grip; a hold (of something)
- a stroke (with an oar; in swimming)
- a while (limited, often short time period)
Declension
Derived terms
- få tag i
- hårda tag
- i första taget
- vara i tagen
Verb
tag
- imperative of taga
Alternative forms
- ta
Further reading
- tag in Svensk ordbok.
Anagrams
- ATG
Welsh
Etymology
Back-formation from tagu (“to strangle, to choke”).
Noun
tag m (plural tagau or tagion)
- choking, suffocation
Derived terms
- llindag (“suffocation; snare; dodder; thrush”)
- tagaradr (“restharrow”)
- tagell (“gill; jowl”)
- tagfa (“choking, throttling; bottleneck”)
- taglys (“bindweed”)
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies