Definition of "tag" in англійська

noun

1. (heading) Physical appendage.

   • He has a tag hung on his bag.

2. (heading) Last nonphysical appendage.

3. (heading) Nonphysical label.

4. (heading) Identity.

5. (heading) Involving being tagged physically.

6. (heading) Signature.

7. A type of cardboard.

8. A sheep in its first year.

verb

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. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.

   • He really tagged that ball.

5. (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)

   • Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.

6. (transitive, baseball) 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, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

   • I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.

8. (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.

9. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.

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.

12. 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

noun

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