tag

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 tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

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

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.
   • 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. (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").

   Synonyms: dialogue tag, speech tag, tag line

   • Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.michael on alt.fiction.original
   • If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right awayJane MacDonald on alt.fiction.original
   • You could combine these two paragraphs, I think, and rewrite to lose the tag portion of the third sentence.bart_...@hotmail.com on alt.fiction.original
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.

    The tag was applied at second for the final out.

12. (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.

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.

    I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection.

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.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Veue of the Present State of Irelande:

      For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came in, both tag and rag

18. A sheep in its first year.
    • 1807, The Complete Farmer, or, General Dictionary of Agriculture and Husbandry, OCLC 779076327:

      After being weaned, the ram or wedder lamb is sometimes termed hog, hoggit, or tag, during the whole of the 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.

    What's your tag?

• tagball

• tag question

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

• paintball
• dodgeball

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?)

• (computing): untag

Borrowed from Aramaic תגא‎ (“crown‎”).

tag (plural tagin)

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

• tag at OneLook Dictionary Search

• ATG, GTA, TGA, gat

• tage (Luserna)

From Middle High German tag, tac, from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. Cognate with German Tag, Dutch dag, English day, Icelandic dagur, Swedish dag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags).

tag m (plural taaghe)

1. (Sette Comuni) day

• “tag” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

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

tag

1. day
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Tag. Dies.

• knauen tag

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”).[1]

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)

1. roof

• tække

From Old Norse tak (“hold, grasp”).

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)

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

Borrowed from English tag (since 1985).

tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)

1. tag

See tage (“to take”).

tag

1. imperative of tage

Borrowed from English tag.

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tag n (plural tags, diminutive tagje n)

1. tag

tag

1. Alternative form of tagi

Borrowed from English tag.

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/
• Rhymes: -aɡ

tag m (plural tags)

1. tag

• IPA^(key): /taːk/
• Rhymes: -aːk

tag

1. Imperative singular of tagen.

Of unknown origin.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒɡ]

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• Hyphenation: tag

tag (plural tagok)

1. member
2. limb

Borrowed from English tag (“piece of markup”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛɡ]

tag (plural tagek)

1. (computing) tag (a piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)

tag

1. arm, hand

• tac, dach (northern)

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]

tag m

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

• Alemannic German: Tag

  Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

  Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

  Swabian: Dag

• Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

  Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

  Mòcheno: ta

  Udinese: tach, ti

• Central Franconian: Daach

  Hunsrik: Daagh, taach

• East Central German:

  Upper Saxon: Dag

• German: Tag

  Esperanto: tago

• Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
• Rhine Franconian: Tach

  Pennsylvania German: Daag

• Vilamovian: taog
• Yiddish: טאָג‎ (tog)

• tac, *dag (northern)

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

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/, /taɣ/

tag m (plural taga)

1. day

   tag after tage

   day after day

• Middle High German: tag, tac, dach
  • Alemannic German: Tag

    Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

    Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

    Swabian: Dag

  • Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

    Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

    Mòcheno: ta

    Udinese: tach, ti

  • Central Franconian: Daach

    Hunsrik: Daagh, taach

  • East Central German:

    Upper Saxon: Dag

  • German: Tag

    Esperanto: tago

  • Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
  • Rhine Franconian: Tach

    Pennsylvania German: Daag

  • Vilamovian: taog
  • Yiddish: טאָג‎ (tog)

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

From Old Norse tak.

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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

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

tag

1. imperative of taga.

• ta

From Old Norse tak, by analogy with taga (“to take”). Also rendered as tak.

• IPA^(key): [tʰáːɣ], [tʰǽːɣ]

  Rhymes: -áːɣ

tag n (definite singular taje, dative tajen)

1. grip, hold
2. advantage

   Han fekk säg ä bra tag

   He got a good advantage

tag

1. singular present of taga
2. singular imperative of taga