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tag

UK/tæɡ/

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British/taɡ/

tag noun: a small label.

Noun (1)

tag (plural tags)

  1. A small label.
    • He has a tag hung on his bag.
    Synonyms:
    ticket
  2. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
  3. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
  4. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
  5. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
  6. Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
  7. Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
    • For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
  8. The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
  9. The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
    • Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success, page 300
    Antonyms:
    cold open
  10. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
  11. (informal) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
    • Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.(Can we date this quote?), michael, alt.fiction.original (Usenet)
    • If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right away(Can we date this quote?), Jane MacDonald, alt.fiction.original (Usenet)
  12. A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
    • The <title> tag provides a title for the Web page.
    • The <sarcasm> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang.
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  1. A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
    • I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.
  2. (US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
    • The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.
  3. (slang) A person's name.
    • What’s your tag?
  4. (uncountable, children's games) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
    Synonyms:
    tips, it
  5. An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
    • The tag was applied at second for the final out.
  6. Signature.
    1. (slang) Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
      • 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
  7. A type of cardboard.
  8. A sheep in its first year.
    • After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the first year1807, The Complete Farmer, or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry, →OCLC

Verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

  1. (transitive) To label (something).
  2. (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
  3. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
    • Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.
  4. (colloquial, transitive) To hit the ball hard.
    • He really tagged that ball.
  5. (slang, transitive, vulgar) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
    • Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.
  6. (transitive) 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.
  7. (transitive) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
    • I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
    Antonyms:
    untag
  8. (Internet, transitive) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
    • One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.2021, Julie B. Wiest, Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age, page 82
  9. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
    • 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 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “By Courier”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC
    • "Now what'd you come tagging for?"1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Flame on the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 11
  10. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
  11. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
    • He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
    • His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eighth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […]...
  12. (transitive) 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
  13. (Internet, slang, transitive) To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to establish exclusive or partial eligibility for loot, experience points achievements, etc.
    • He keeps tagging my mobs and I miss out on all the drops.
    • I can fight her for you, but you have to tag her if you want the achievement.
  14. (transitive) To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag

Noun (2)

tag (plural tagin or tagim)

  1. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.

Adjective capitalized: TAG

TAG (comparative more TAG, superlative most TAG)

  1. Tight (inclined to play only strong starting hands and fold otherwise) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).

Noun (3) capitalized: TAG

TAG (plural TAGs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of tree-adjoining grammar.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of touch and go.

tag meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

tag in Hindi

टैग, टैग करें

tag in Tamil

குறிச்சொல், குறிச்சொல் செய்ய, குறிச்சொல்ல

tag in Marathi

टॅग, टॅग करा, टॅग करण्यासाठी

tag in Urdu

ٹیگ, ٹیگ کریں
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tag in Bengali
ট্যাগ, ট্যাগটি, ট্যাগ করুন
tag in Telugu
ట్యాగ్, టాగ్, ట్యాగ్ చేయడానికి
tag in Malayalam
ടാഗ്, ടാഗുചെയ്യുക, ടാഗ് ചെയ്യാൻ
tag in Kannada
ಟ್ಯಾಗ್, ಟ್ಯಾಗ್ ಮಾಡಿ, ಟ್ಯಾಗ್ ಮಾಡಲು
tag in Punjabi
ਟੈਗ, ਟੈੱਗ, ਟੈਗ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
tag in Gujarati
ટેગ, ટૅગ, ટેગ કરો
tag in Odia
ଟ୍ଯ଼ାଗ୍, ଟ୍ଯ଼ାଗ, ଟେଗ୍
tag in Nepali
ट्याग, टेग, ट्याग गर्न
tag in Arabic
زَقِيطَة zaqīṭa
tag in Malay
tanda
tag in Persian
برچسب bar-časb, اتیکت etiket

Examples of tag in a sentence

  • Make sure your dog has a collar holding an identification tag.
  • The 'bold' tag has been deprecated in favour of the 'strong' tag.
  • When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.

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Synonyms of tag

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Antonyms

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Forms of tag

Noun
pluraltags
pluraltagin
pluraltagim
pluralTAGs
Verb
third-person singular presenttags
present participletagging
past participletagged
pasttagged
Adjective
comparativemore TAG
superlativemost TAG

Past tense of tag: tagged

Plural of tag: tags

Origin of tag

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 (taga, “crown”). Doublet of taj.

Acronym of tight-aggressive.

Words formed from tag

Phrases with tag

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Words that rhyme with tag

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Questions about tag

What does tag mean?
Tag means a small label.
What is tag in Hindi?
Tag in Hindi is टैग, टैग करें. See Tag meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tag?
Tag can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce tag?
Tag is pronounced /tæɡ/ (UK).
What is the plural of tag?
The plural of tag is tags.

Words near tag in the dictionary

  1. tafting
  2. taftoon
  3. tafts
  4. Taftville
  5. tafwiz
  6. tag
  7. tag alder
  8. tag alders
  9. tag along
  10. tag and rag
  11. tag board

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tag (page history and authors); TAG (page history and authors); tag (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tag (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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