tag

Meanings

Noun

• A small label.
• 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.
• An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
• The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
• The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
• A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
• An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
• A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
• 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.
• Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
• A person's name.
• A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

Verb

• To label (something).
• To mark (something) with one’s tag.
• To remove dung tags from a sheep.
• to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
• To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
• To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
• To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
• To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
• To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
• To fasten; to attach.

Related

Opposite words

• untag

Narrower meaning words

• dart tag
• ETag
• ear tag
• empty-element tag
• entity tag
• laser tag
• price tag
• question tag
• hashtag
• cashtag

Origin

• 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.
• Borrowed from Aramaic תגא ("crown"). taj.