flag

flag is a 4-letter English word with 28 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 28 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
2. intransitive verb. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
3. transitive verb. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
4. transitive verb. To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
5. noun. That which flags or hangs down loosely.
6. noun. A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
7. noun. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
8. noun. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
9. noun. The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
10. transitive verb. To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
11. transitive verb. To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
12. noun. An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
13. transitive verb. To furnish or deck out with flags.
14. noun. A flat stone used for paving.
15. noun. Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
16. transitive verb. To lay with flags of flat stones.
17. noun. a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
18. noun. emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
19. noun. stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones

    Synonyms: flagstone

20. noun. flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green

    Synonyms: pin

21. noun. a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.

    Synonyms: masthead

22. noun. a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
23. noun. plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

    Synonyms: iris

24. verb. become less intense
25. verb. provide with a flag

    "Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately"

26. verb. communicate or signal with a flag
27. verb. decorate with flags

    "the building was flagged for the holiday"

28. verb. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

    Synonyms: droop, sag, swag

Synonyms

flagstone, pin, masthead, iris, droop, sag, swag

Common word forms

flags, flagged, flagger, flagging, flagless

Words from these letters

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