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/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -æɡ

tag (plural tags)

1. A small label.
2. A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, 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

   • (Can we date this quote?),
     Seems here like Russ would be speaking. You could use a tag here.michael on alt.fiction.original
   • (Can we date this quote?)
     If you want to start with talk, stick a tag in right awayJane MacDonald on alt.fiction.original
   • (Can we date this quote?)
     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, often focusing on the program's subplot.

   Antonym: cold open

   • 2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success (page 300)

     Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.

10. (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).

    The subwoofer in the trunk was so loud, it vibrated the tag like an aluminum can.

11. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."

    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
• tagless
• tag question

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

• chasey
• dodgeball
• paintball

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, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)

   Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.

6. (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.

7. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

   I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.

8. 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.

9. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
10. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
    • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

      He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.

    • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eighth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:

      His courteous host […] / Tags every sentence with some fawning word.

11. To fasten; to attach.
    • a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay

      they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy

• (computing): untag

Borrowed from Aramaic תגא‎ (“crown”). Doublet of taj.

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-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. Cognate with German Tag, English day.

tag m (plural taaghe)

1. (Sette Comuni) day

• gabüarttag

• “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, cognate with Swedish tak, English thack, thatch, German Dach, Dutch dak.

• IPA^(key): /taːˀɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)]

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)

1. roof

• tække

From Old Norse tak (“hold, grasp”), cognate with Norwegian tak, Swedish tag. Derived from the verb taka (Danish tage).

• IPA^(key): /ta(ːˀ)ɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)], [ˈtˢɑw]

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)

1. hold, grasp, grip
2. stroke (with an oar or with the armes in the water)
3. handling, control

Borrowed from English tag (since 1985).

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/, [ˈtˢæɡ̊]

tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)

1. tag (signature of a graffiti artist)
2. (computing) tag (markup in an electronic file)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ta(ːˀ)/, [ˈtˢæ(ˀ)]

tag

1. imperative of tage

Borrowed from English tag.

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tag n (plural tags, diminutive tagje n)

1. tag

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑɡ/, [ˈt̪ɑɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡ
• Syllabification^(key): tag

tag

1. Alternative form of tagi

Borrowed from English tag.

• IPA^(key): /taɡ/

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• Rhymes: -aɡ

tag m (plural tags)

1. tag

• IPA^(key): /taːk/
• Rhymes: -aːk

tag

1. singular imperative of tagen

Of unknown origin.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒɡ]

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• Hyphenation: tag
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

tag (plural tagok)

1. member
2. Synonym of végtag (“limb”)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

tag (plural tagek)

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

Borrowed from English tag (“a piece of graffiti”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

tag (plural tagek)

1. tag (graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist)

• tag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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

• Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
• Vilamovian: taog
• Yiddish: טאָג‎ (tog)

• tac, tak, dac, *dag (northern)

From Proto-West Germanic *dag, 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

• *ariōtag
• frīatag
• frōnotag
• tagalih
  • tagalihhen
  • tagalihhes
  • tagalihhida
• sambaztag
• ziestag

• 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

  • Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
  • Vilamovian: taog
  • Yiddish: טאָג‎ (tog)

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Borrowed from English tag, from Middle English tagge.

• IPA^(key): /tak/

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: tag
• Homophones: tak, Tag

tag m inan

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

   Synonym: znacznik

• tag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English tag.

tag f or m (plural tags)

1. tag (type of graffiti)
2. an RFID chip, especially one used to unlock electronic door locks, often carried as a key fob
3. (computing) tag (a markup instruction)

tag

1. Romanization of 𒋳 (tag)

From Old Norse tak.

• IPA^(key): /tɑːɡ/

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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

• tag in Svensk ordbok.

• ATG

Back-formation from tagu (“to strangle, to choke”).

tag m (plural tagau or tagion)

1. choking, suffocation

• llindag (“suffocation; snare; dodder; thrush”)
• tagaradr (“restharrow”)
• tagell (“gill; jowl”)
• tagfa (“choking, throttling; bottleneck”)
• taglys (“bindweed”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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

• IPA^(key): [tʰɑ́ːɣ], [tʰáːɣ], [tʰǽːɣ]

  Rhymes: -áːɣ

tag n (definite singular tagjä, dative tagjän)

1. Grip, hold.
2. Advantage.

   Han fekk säg ä bra tag

   He got a good advantage

• tak

From Old Norse taug, tog, from Proto-Germanic *taugō, *tugą.

tag n (definite singular tagjä, dative tagjän)

1. A rope.

• raip

tag

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