Definition of "bag" in Anglais

noun

1. A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

2. A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.

3. (colloquial) One's preference.

   • Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

4. (derogatory) An ugly woman.

5. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

   • The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

6. (baseball) First, second, or third base.

   • He headed back to the bag.

7. (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

8. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

   • A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.

9. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

   • the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents

10. (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

    • He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.

11. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

12. (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

13. (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

14. (informal) A large number or amount.

15. In certain phrases: money.

16. A fellow gay man.

17. A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

18. The scrotum.

19. £1000, a grand.

verb

1. (transitive) To put into a bag.

2. (transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

3. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

4. To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag