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TAG

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Irregular inflected forms: tagged    , tagging   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("tag" is a kind of...):

touch; touching (the act of putting two things together with no space between them)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

tag (a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser)

Derivation:

tag (touch a player while he is holding the ball)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("tag" is a kind of...):

child's game (a game enjoyed by children)

Domain member category:

tag ((sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game))

Derivation:

tag (go after with the intent to catch)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A small piece of cloth or paper

Synonyms:

rag; shred; tag; tag end; tatter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tag" is a kind of...):

piece of cloth; piece of material (a separate part consisting of fabric)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tag"):

pine-tar rag (baseball equipment consisting of a rag soaked with pine tar; used on the handle of a baseball bat to give a batter a firm grip)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.

Synonyms:

tag; ticket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("tag" is a kind of...):

label (an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tag"):

dog tag (metal plate on a dog collar bearing its registration number)

dog tag (military identification tag worn on a chain around the neck)

name tag (a tag showing the name of the person who wears it)

price tag (a tag showing the price of the article it is attached to)

Derivation:

tag (attach a tag or label to)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A label associated with something for the purpose of identification

Example:

semantic tags were attached in order to identify different meanings of the word

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("tag" is a kind of...):

label (an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with a name or nickname

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "tag" is one way to...):

be known as; call; know as; name (assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Attach a tag or label to

Example:

label these bottles

Synonyms:

label; mark; tag

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "tag" is one way to...):

attach (cause to be attached)

Verb group:

mark (make or leave a mark on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tag"):

badge (put a badge on)

code (attach a code to)

calibrate (mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units)

point (mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics)

point (mark with diacritics)

point (mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes)

brand; brandmark; trademark (mark with a brand or trademark)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

Touch a player while he is holding the ball

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "tag" is one way to...):

touch (make physical contact with, come in contact with)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tag"):

nab (tag the base runner to get him out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

tag ((sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "tag" is one way to...):

rhyme; rime (compose rhymes)

Domain category:

poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Go after with the intent to catch

Example:

the dog chased the rabbit

Synonyms:

chase; chase after; dog; give chase; go after; tag; tail; track; trail

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "tag" is one way to...):

follow; pursue (follow in or as if in pursuit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tag"):

tree (chase an animal up a tree)

quest (search the trail of (game))

hound; hunt; trace (pursue or chase relentlessly)

run down (pursue until captured)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Also:

tag along (go along with, often uninvited)

Derivation:

tag (a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser)

Credits

 Context examples: 

This protein usually has a certain number of chemical tags, known as phosphate groups, attached.

(Human Cells Model Alzheimer’s Disease, NIH)

Ndrp-1 is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that tags ErbB3 for degradation in non-lysosomal compartments.

(ErbB3 Receptor Recycling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The annealed heteroduplexes, as well as other driver species are captured by the tagged nucleotide and removed from the mixture.

(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

In the study, the researchers first tagged free-floating tumor cells in pigs with a special nanoparticle that contains magnetic properties. (In other words, they attached this magnetic molecule to the tumor cells.)

(Magnetic Wires May Soon Be Used in Your Veins to Detect Cancer Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

NOTE(S): The message text may contain substitution tags that when used in the context of a particular study are replaced with study name or study site, etc.

(Defined Notification Message, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Each header tag is one such value.

(DICOM Header Tag, NCI Thesaurus)

Internet Sponsor Link (e.g. sponsored links and meta tags)

(Hyperlink, Food and Drug Administration)

With the help of citizen scientists participating in a project called Galaxy Zoo, it was then tagged as a system of colliding galaxies.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

Six—a box of monies, three pounds of Limousine gold-work, a pair of boots, silver tagged, and, lastly, a store of naping linen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A physical mapping approach that uses fluorescent tags to detect hybridization of probes within metaphase chromosomes or less condensed somatic interphase chromatin.

(Fluorescence in situ hybridization, NCI Thesaurus)