Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- 2intransitive verb
To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
- 3transitive verb
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
- 4transitive verb
To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
- 5noun
That which flags or hangs down loosely.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- 8noun
A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- 9noun
The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
- 10transitive verb
To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
- 11transitive verb
To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
- 12noun
An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
- 13transitive verb
To furnish or deck out with flags.
- 14noun
A flat stone used for paving.
- 15noun
Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- 16transitive verb
To lay with flags of flat stones.
- 17noun
a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
- 18noun
emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- 19noun
stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
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- 20noun
flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
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- 21noun
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.
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- 22noun
a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
- 23noun
plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
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- 24verb
become less intense
- 25verb
provide with a flag
"Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately"
- 26verb
communicate or signal with a flag
- 27verb
decorate with flags
"the building was flagged for the holiday"
- 28verb
droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
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