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–n.1. a card or small piece of paper, leather, or other material, to be tied or fastened to something, especially as a label: »
Each coat in the store has a tag with the price on it.
2. a small hanging piece; loosely attached piece; loose end; tatter: »Mother cut all the tags off the old frayed rug.
3. a tab or loop by which a coat is hung up.4. a metal point on the end of a shoelace or string, to make it pass easily through eyelets.5. a quotation, moral, or other phrase added for ornament or emphasis.6. the last words of an actor's speech, or the last lines of a play.7. to mark with graffiti.8. Figurative. the end of anything, especially a flourish added to a letter.9. the tip of an animal's tail, especially when distinct in color.10. a small piece of bright material such as tinsel, wrapped around the shank of a fishhook near the tail of an artificial fly.11. a matted lock of wool on a sheep; tag-lock.12. a radioactive tracer: »Carbon 14 is used as a “tracer” or “tag” in research or industrial processes (Wall Street Journal).
13. a unit of information used in computer programming to identify or label other information: »Along with the bits making up each word would be stored “tag” bits giving some information about the word (New Scientist).
14. the stylized signature of a graffiti artist.–v.t.1. to add for ornament or emphasis.2. to furnish (a speech or composition) with tags, such as quotations.3. to add on as an afterthought; fasten or tack on: »to tag a moral to a story.
4. to mark, label, or identify with a tag or tags: »All his suitcases and trunks are tagged with his name and address. A carbon atom can be tagged…by substituting the deuterium isotope for one or more of the associated hydrogen atoms (Harold C. Urey).
5. Informal. to follow closely: »The dog tagged them all the way home.
6. to cut off tags from (a sheep).7. to mark with graffiti.–v.i.to trail along; follow: »The younger children tagged after the older ones. We didn't invite him to go with us but he tagged along anyway.
╂[origin uncertain]–tag´ger, noun.–n.1. a children's game in which one child who is “it” chases the others until he touches one. The one touched is then “it” and must chase the others.2. Baseball. the act of touching a base runner with the ball, or a base with the foot while holding the ball, to make a putout.–v.t.1. to touch or tap with the hand.2. Baseball. a) to touch (a base runner) with the ball to make a putout: »The runner was caught off base and tagged out.
b) to touch (a base) with the foot while holding the ball to make a putout.–v.i.tag up, Baseball. to stay on, or return to stay on, the base occupied until after a fly ball is caught, before advancing to the next base: »Edwin had no little trouble understanding why a base runner must tag up before running if a fly ball is caught (New Yorker).
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Useful english dictionary. 2012.
