tag has definitions from the fields of sport,games,clothing,baseball,verse
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[ noun ] a label made of cardboard or plastic or metal

Used in print

(Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)

She had dug a hole for each bulb , each tree wore a tag with her writing on_it ; where would she go for her gardening now ?

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[ verb ] attach a tag or label to

Synonyms

mark label

Examples

"label these bottles"

Used in print

(Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)

Turk_Lown was tagged with the loss , his second against no victories , while Ray_Moore won his second game against a single loss .

(Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)

Of several methods employed for tagging chlorine with radiochlorine , the exchange of inactive chlorine with tagged aluminum_chloride at room_temperature was found to be the most satisfactory .

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[ verb ] provide with a name or nickname

Used in print

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

`` The forgotten 15 million '' - as Sponsor tagged the Negro market in its first survey - has become a better-remembered 19 million .

Related terms

name

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[ verb ] (baseball) as in baseball: touch a player while he is holding the ball

Used in print

(Samuel Elkin, "The Ball Player," Nugget, 6: 5...)

But Mike had no chance of being tagged .

Related terms

touch nab baseball

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[ verb ] (verse) supply with rhymes, as of blank verse or prose

Related terms

rhyme poetry

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[ noun ] (games) a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser

Related terms

child's_game chase

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[ noun ] (clothing) a small piece of cloth

Synonyms

rag tatter tag_end shred

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[ verb ] go after with the intent to catch

Examples

"The policeman chased the mugger down the alley" "the dog chased the rabbit"

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

Related terms

touch baseball baseball

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