tagnoun
uk/tæɡ/us/tæɡ/tag noun (SMALL PART)
[ C ] a small piece of paper, cloth, or metal, on which there is information, tied or stuck onto something larger:
tag noun (GAME)
[ U ] a game played by two or more children in which one child chases the others and tries to touch one of them. This child then becomes the one who does the chasing.
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Children's games
- blind man's buff
- conker
- double Dutch
- follow-my-leader
- hangman
- hoopla
- hopscotch
- life
- marble
- midget
- musical chairs
- peekaboo
- piggy in the middle
- piggyback
- play
- pretend
- show-and-tell
- spitball
- trick-or-treating
- warm
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tag noun (GRAMMAR)
[ C ] specialized language a phrase such as "he is" or "isn't it?", added on to a sentence for emphasis, or to turn it into a question, usually to get agreement or to check information
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Linguistics: grammatical terms
- ablative
- apposition
- attributive
- collocate
- comparative
- declension
- decline
- dependent clause
- grammar
- grammarian
- grammatical
- independent clause
- indirect object
- inflect
- interrogative
- modifier
- plurality
- qualify
- reflexive
- superlative
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tag noun (MARK)
[ C ] a type of graffiti (= words and pictures drawn in public places on walls, etc.) that shows who has drawn it and that represents a signature :
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Signing & signatures
- anon
- cosignatory
- countersign
- initial
- John Hancock
- notarize
- sign
- sign (sb) out
- sign (sth) off
- sign for sth
- sign for/with sb
- sign on
- sign sth out
- sign sth over
- signature
- signing
- the undersigned
- witness
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tagverb [ T ]
uk/tæɡ/us/tæɡ/-gg-tag verb [ T ] (SMALL PART)
to put a tag on something
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Identifying
- ascribe sth to sb
- biometric
- character recognition
- color-coded
- colour-coded
- distinguishing
- dog tag
- id
- ID card
- identifiable
- identification
- identity card
- paper
- passport
- pick
- separate the sheep from the goats idiom
- sheep
- stamp
- tell
- tell sth/sb apart
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tag verb [ T ] (COMPUTING)
specialized computing to mark computer information to be processed in a particular way
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Operating computers
- aliasing
- always-on
- black hat
- BMP
- caps lock (key)
- computerize
- cut
- enter
- format
- function
- hacker
- hash
- keyboarder
- punch
- roll (sth) over sth
- scroll bar
- title bar
- touchscreen
- uninstall
- zip
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