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Webster 1913 Edition

Tag

Tag

,
Noun.
[Probably akin to
tack
a small nail; cf. Sw.
tagg
a prickle, point, tooth.]
1.
Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
2.
A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
3.
The end, or catchword, of an actor’s speech; cue.
4.
Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
[Obs.]
Tag and rag
,
the lowest sort; the rabble.
Holinshed.
5.
A sheep of the first year.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Tag

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tagged
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tagging
.]
1.
To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
He learned to make long-
tagged
thread laces.
Macaulay.
His courteous host . . .
Tags
every sentence with some fawning word.
Dryden.
2.
To join; to fasten; to attach.
Bolingbroke.
3.
To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See
Tag
, a play.

Tag

,
Verb.
I.
To follow closely, as it were an appendage; – often with after;
as, to
tag
after a person
.

Tag

,
Noun.
[From
Tag
,
Verb.
; cf.
Tag
, an end.]
A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tag

TAG

,
Noun.
[L. digitus.]
1.
A metallic point put to the end of a string.
2.
Something mean and paltry; as tag-rag people. [Vulgar.]
3.
A young sheep. [Local.]

TAG

,
Verb.
T.
To fit with a point; as, to tag lace.
1.
To fit one thing to another; to append to.
His courteous host
Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
2.
To join or fasten.

TAG

,
Noun.
A play in which the person gains who tags, that is, touches another. This was a common sport among boys in Connecticut formerly, and it may be still. The word is inserted here for the sake of the evidence it affords of the affinity of languages, and of the original orthography of the Latin tango, to touch, which was tago. This vulgar tag is the same word; the primitive word retained by the common people. It is used also as a verb, to tag. [See Touch.]

Definition 2024

Tag

Tag

See also: tag, TAG, tág, and tåg

German

Ein siderischer Tag der Erde. — A sidereal Earth day. (4)
Reichstag (7)

Noun

Tag m ‎(genitive Tages or Tags, plural Tage)

  1. a day; a period of time that lasts 24 hours
  2. a day; the period from midnight to the following midnight
    Der Tag fängt um Mitternacht an. — The day begins at midnight.
  3. a day; the period between sunrise and sunset when there is daylight
    Im Winter sind die Tage kürzer. — During the winter the days are shorter.
    Diese kurzen Tage verursachen Depressionen. — These short days cause feelings of depression.
    An den irdischen Polen dauert ein Tag sechs Monate — At the Earth's poles a day lasts about six months.
  4. (astronomy) a day, the rotational period of a planet, moon or any celestial body (especially Earth)
  5. the part of a day which one spends at work, school, etc
    Nun, wie war dein Tag? — Well, how was your day?
    Überstunden!? Was für ein Tag! — Overtime!? What a day!
  6. (idiomatic) a day; a specified time or period, considered with reference to the prominence or success (in life or in an an argument or conflict) of a person or thing
    Der Tag gehört uns. Gut gemacht, Männer! — It's our day, now. Well done, men!
    Heute ist einfach nicht mein Tag. — It's just not my day.
  7. (dated) a convention, a congress (now found chiefly in compounds such as Reichstag or Landtag)
Declension
Usage notes
  • The plural Tage has a special meaning ("menstruation").
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants

See also

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of the greeting guten Tag ‎(“good day”).

Interjection

Tag

  1. (colloquial) hello; (good) day

References

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1995, 2005; München: dtv; ISBN 3423325119)

Polish

Proper noun

Tag m

  1. Tagus (river in Iberia)

Declension

tag

tag

See also: Tag, TAG, tág, and tåg

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tăg, IPA(key): /tæɡ/
  • (North American also) IPA(key): /teɪɡ/, IPA(key): /tɛɡ/
  • Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

tag ‎(plural tags)

  1. A small label.
  2. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch 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.
    • 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques (page 124)
      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.
  6. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
  7. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").
  8. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
  9. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
    The tag was applied at second for the final out.
  10. (computing) 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.
  11. (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.
    I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.
  12. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
  13. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
  14. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
  15. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
  16. A sheep in its first year.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
  17. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
  18. (slang) A person's name.
    What's your tag?
Derived terms
See also

(children's game to avoid being "it"):

Translations

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.
    Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.
  4. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
    He really tagged that ball.
  5. (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.
  6. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
    I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.
  7. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
    • 1906, O. Henry, By Courier
      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.
  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.
    • Macaulay
      He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
    • Dryden
      His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
  10. To fasten; to attach.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bolingbroke to this entry?)

Antonyms

Translations
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Aramaic תגא ‎(“crown‎”).

Noun

tag ‎(plural tagin)

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

Anagrams

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- ‎(“to burn”).

Noun

tag

  1. day
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      Tag. Dies.

Derived terms

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þak ‎(“thatch, roof”), from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-. Cognate with English thack, thatch, German Dach ‎(“roof”). Akin to Latin toga ‎(“garment”) and Ancient Greek στέγος ‎(stégos, “roof”).“tag” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)

  1. roof
Inflection
Related terms
  • tække

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tak ‎(“hold, grasp”).

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)

  1. hold, grasp, grip
  2. stroke
  3. tug, jerk
  4. knack
Inflection

Etymology 3

From English tag (since 1985).

Noun

tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)

  1. tag
Inflection

Etymology 4

See tage ‎(“to take”).

Verb

tag

  1. imperative of tage

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowing from English tag.

Noun

tag n ‎(plural tags, diminutive tagje n)

  1. tag

Finnish

Noun

tag

  1. Alternative form of tagi

Declension

Inflection of tag (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative tag tagit
genitive tagin tagien
partitive tagia tageja
illative tagiin tageihin
singular plural
nominative tag tagit
accusative nom. tag tagit
gen. tagin
genitive tagin tagien
partitive tagia tageja
inessive tagissa tageissa
elative tagista tageista
illative tagiin tageihin
adessive tagilla tageilla
ablative tagilta tageilta
allative tagille tageille
essive tagina tageina
translative tagiksi tageiksi
instructive — tagein
abessive tagitta tageitta
comitative — tageineen

French

Etymology

From English

Noun

tag m ‎(plural tags)

  1. tag

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taːk/
  • Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

tag

  1. Imperative singular of tagen.

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Unknown origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒɡ]
  • Hyphenation: tag

Noun

tag ‎(plural tagok)

  1. member
  2. limb
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tag tagok
accusative tagot tagokat
dative tagnak tagoknak
instrumental taggal tagokkal
causal-final tagért tagokért
translative taggá tagokká
terminative tagig tagokig
essive-formal tagként tagokként
essive-modal — —
inessive tagban tagokban
superessive tagon tagokon
adessive tagnál tagoknál
illative tagba tagokba
sublative tagra tagokra
allative taghoz tagokhoz
elative tagból tagokból
delative tagról tagokról
ablative tagtól tagoktól
Possessive forms of tag
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tagom tagjaim
2nd person sing. tagod tagjaid
3rd person sing. tagja tagjai
1st person plural tagunk tagjaink
2nd person plural tagotok tagjaitok
3rd person plural tagjuk tagjaik
Derived terms

(Compound words):

Etymology 2

From English tag ‎(“piece of markup”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛɡ]

Noun

tag ‎(plural tagek)

  1. (computing) tag (a piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative tag tagek
accusative taget tageket
dative tagnek tageknek
instrumental taggel tagekkel
causal-final tagért tagekért
translative taggé tagekké
terminative tagig tagekig
essive-formal tagként tagekként
essive-modal — —
inessive tagben tagekben
superessive tagen tageken
adessive tagnél tageknél
illative tagbe tagekbe
sublative tagre tagekre
allative taghez tagekhez
elative tagből tagekből
delative tagről tagekről
ablative tagtől tagektől
Possessive forms of tag
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tagem tagjeim
2nd person sing. taged tagjeid
3rd person sing. tagje tagjei
1st person plural tagünk tagjeink
2nd person plural tagetek tagjeitek
3rd person plural tagjük tagjeik

Lojban

Rafsi

tag

  1. rafsi of tagji.

Meriam

Noun

tag

  1. arm, hand

Middle High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ and Old Norse dagr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- ‎(“to burn”).[1]

Noun

tag m

  1. day
  2. age, lifetime
  3. (politics) convention, congress
  4. (in a religious context) judgement day

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ Pfeifer, Wolfgang. 1995, 2005. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen. München: dtv. ISBN 3423325119.

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ, Old Norse dagr, Old Saxon and Old Dutch dag, Old High German tag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 ‎(dags). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- ‎(“to burn”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tag/, /taɣ/

Noun

tag m ‎(plural taga)

  1. day
    tag after tage
    day after day

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse tak.

Pronunciation

Noun

tag n

  1. a grip; a hold (of something)
    Tappa inte taget
    Don’t lose your grip
    Släpp inte taget
    Don’t let go
  2. a stroke (with an oar; in swimming)
    Ett tag till med åran
    One more stroke with the oar
  3. a while, a moment, a minute, sec, second, tic
    Ett litet tag
    A little while, a second

Declension

Inflection of tag 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tag taget tag tagen
Genitive tags tagets tags tagens

Derived terms

  • få tag i
  • hårda tag
  • i första taget
  • vara i tagen

Verb

tag

  1. imperative of taga.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German tag, tac, from Old High German tag, tac (attested since the 8th century); from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- ‎(“to burn, to be illuminated”).

Germanic cognates include Old Saxon dag (whence German Low German Dag), Old Dutch dag (whence Dutch dag, Afrikaans dag), Old English dæġ (whence Modern English day), West Frisian dei, Old Norse dagr (whence Icelandic dagur, Faroese dagur, Norwegian dag, Swedish dag, Danish dag) and Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 ‎(dags).

Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian djeg ‎(“to burn”), Latin foveo ‎(“to warm, nurture”), favilla ‎(“cinders, ashes”), Ancient Greek τέφρα ‎(téphra), Lithuanian dãgas ‎(“hot season”), Russian жечь ‎(žečʹ, “to burn”), Sanskrit दहति ‎(dahati, “to burn”).

Although they are similar in appearance and meaning, German Tag and Proto-Germanic *dagaz are not related to Latin diēs as older folk etymology suggested; instead, the Latin word is derived from Proto-Indo-European *dyeu- *dyew- ‎(“to shine”). See the Latvian diena ‎(“day”) and Sanskrit दिन ‎(diná, “day”) for more.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taːk/, [täːk], [tɑːk] (standard)
  • IPA(key): /tax/ (northern Germany and parts of central Germany; chiefly colloquial)
  • IPA(key): /taːx/ (parts of central Germany; chiefly colloquial)
  • IPA(key): /taːɡ/, [tɑːɡ̊] (alternative standard in Switzerland)
  • Hyphenation: Tag
  • Rhymes: -aːk, -ax, -aːx

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