Definition of tag

noun (n)

• a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc. (noun.communication)

  Synonym: ticket
  

  source: wordnet30
• a label associated with something for the purpose of identification (noun.communication)

  Example:
  Semantic tags were attached in order to identify different meanings of the word.
  

  source: wordnet30
• a small piece of cloth or paper (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: rag, shred, tag end, tatter
  

  source: wordnet30
• a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser (noun.act)

  source: wordnet30
• (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game) (noun.act)

  source: wordnet30
• Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• attach a tag or label to (verb.contact)

  Synonym: label, mark
  

  source: wordnet30
• touch a player while he is holding the ball (verb.contact)

  source: wordnet30
• provide with a name or nickname (verb.communication)

  source: wordnet30
• go after with the intent to catch (verb.motion)

  Synonym: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tail, track, trail
  

  source: wordnet30
• supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes (verb.creation)

  source: wordnet30
• To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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