tag

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tags, tagging, tagged

1) N-COUNT A tag is a small piece of card or cloth which is attached to an object or person and has information about that object or person on it.

→ See also , price tag

Staff wore name tags and called inmates by their first names.

...baggage tags.

Syn:

label

2) N-COUNT An electronic tag is a device that is firmly attached to someone or something and sets off an alarm if that person or thing moves away or is removed.

→ See also electronic tagging

A hospital is to fit new-born babies with electronic tags to foil kidnappers...

Sometimes, they've snapped off the security tag and just taken the one shoe.

3) VERB If you tag something, you attach something to it or mark it so that it can be identified later.

[V n] Professor Orr has developed interesting ways of tagging chemical molecules using existing laboratory lasers...

[V n] The most important trees were tagged to protect them from being damaged by construction machinery.

4) N-COUNT: usu with supp You can refer to a phrase that is used to describe someone or something as a tag. [JOURNALISM]

In Britain, jazz is losing its elitist tag and gaining a much broader audience.

Syn:

label

5) VERB If you tag someone in a particular way, you keep describing them using a particular phrase or thinking of them as a particular thing. [JOURNALISM]

[V n with n] ...the pundits were still tagging him with that age-old label, `best of a bad bunch'...

[be V-ed n] She has always lived in John's house and is still tagged `Dad's girlfriend' by his children. [Also V n as n, V n]

Syn:

label

6) N-COUNT A tag is a short phrase or saying that you quote from a book, speech, or piece of writing.

7) N-UNCOUNT Tag is a children's game in which one child chases the others and tries to touch them.

Syn:

tig

8) → See also question tag

Phrasal Verbs:

- tag along

- tag on