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Definition tag

Etymology 1

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 t�g (�a willow-twig�). Compare also tack.

Noun

tag (plural tags)

1. A small label.
2. A chasing game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch and touch one of the others, who then becomes "it".
3. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
4. A type of cardboard.
5. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
6. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
7. (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
8. (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
9. (television) The last scene of a TV program that often focuses on the program's subplot.
10. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
11. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
12. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
13. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
14. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
15. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
16. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
17. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
18. A sheep in its first year.
19. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
20. (slang) A person's name.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To label (something).
2. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one�s tag.
3. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
4. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
5. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
6. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
7. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
8. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
9. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
10. To fasten; to attach.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic ???‎ (�crown?�).

Noun

tag (plural tagin)

1. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

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