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Bag
Bag
(băg)
, Noun.
[OE.
bagge
; cf. Icel. baggi
, and also OF. bague
, bundle, LL. baga
.] 1.
A sack or pouch, used for holding anything;
as, a
. bag
of meal or of money2.
A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance;
as, the
. bag
of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag
of a cow3.
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men’s hair behind, by way of ornament.
[Obs.]
4.
The quantity of game bagged.
5.
(Com.)
A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack;
as, a
. bag
of pepper or hops; a bag
of coffeeBag and baggage
, all that belongs to one.
– To give one the bag
, to disappoint him.
[Obs.]
Bunyan.
Bag
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bagged
(băgd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bagging
] 1.
To put into a bag;
as, to
. bag
hops2.
To seize, capture, or entrap;
as, to
. bag
an army; to bag
game3.
To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
A bee
bagged
with his honeyed venom. Dryden.
Bag
,Verb.
I.
1.
To swell or hang down like a full bag;
as, the skin
. bags
from containing morbid matter2.
To swell with arrogance.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
3.
To become pregnant.
[Obs.]
Warner. (Alb. Eng.).
Definition 2024
bag
bag
See also: bağ
English
Noun
bag (plural bags)
- A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
- (informal) A handbag
- A suitcase.
- A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
- One’s preference.
- Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
- (baseball) First, second, or third base.
- He headed back to the bag.
- (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- If one has a bag of three apples and the letter 'a' is taken to denote 'apple', then such bag could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Note that in an ordinary context, when talking about a bag of apples, one does not care about identifying the individual apples, although one might be interested in distinguishing apples by species, for example, 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}.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
- the bag of a cow
- A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
- (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
- (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
Synonyms
- (flexible container): poke (obsolete), sack, tote
- (handbag): handbag, purse (US)
- (preference): cup of tea, thing
- (ugly woman): dog, hag
- (in mathematics): multiset
Hyponyms
- (flexible container): bindle
Translations
flexible container
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suitcase — see suitcase
backpack — see backpack
ugly woman
baseball: first, second, or third base
Verb
bag (third-person singular simple present bags, present participle bagging, simple past and past participle bagged)
- To put into a bag.
- (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- We bagged three deer yesterday.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
- Dryden
- a bee bagged with his honeyed venom
- Dryden
- (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
- (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
- (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
- (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.
- The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
- The brisk wind bagged the sails.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 3,
- […] he was dressed in a badly fitting white drill suit, with trousers bagging concertina-like over clumsy black boots.
- His trousers bag at the knees.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 3,
- (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Warner. (Alb. Eng.) to this entry?)
Translations
to put into a bag
to catch
to gain possession of, or to make first claim on
to furnish or load with a bag
to laugh uncontrollably
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to criticise sarcastically
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to provide artificial ventilation
to swell or hang down like a full bag
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to become pregnant
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Derived terms
Terms derived from bag
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Descendants
- Korean: 백 (baek)
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology 1
Adverb
bag
Noun
bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)
Inflection
Inflection of bag
Synonyms
Preposition
bag
Etymology 2
Verbal noun of bage (“bake”).
Noun
bag n
Synonyms
- bagværk
Verb
bag
- imperative of bage
Norwegian
Alternative forms
- bagg
Etymology
Borrowing from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæɡ/
Noun
bag
- A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
- (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.
Inflection
Inflection of bag
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowing from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.
Noun
bag c
- A kind of large bag; a duffel bag
Declension
| Inflection of bag | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | bag | bagen | bagar | bagarna |
| Genitive | bags | bagens | bagars | bagarnas |