Dictionary Entry
tag
tag is a 3-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 21 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
- 2noun
A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- 3noun
The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- 4noun
Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
- 5noun
A sheep of the first year.
- 6noun
A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.
- 7transitive verb
To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
- 8transitive verb
To join; to fasten; to attach.
- 9transitive verb
To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag play.
- 10intransitive verb
To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
- 11verb
A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
- 12noun
(sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
- 13noun
a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
- 14noun
a small piece of cloth or paper
- 15noun
a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
Synonyms
- 16noun
a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
"semantic tags were attached in order to identify different meanings of the word"
- 17verb
provide with a name or nickname
- 18verb
attach a tag or label to
"label these bottles"
- 19verb
touch a player while he is holding the ball
- 20verb
supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
- 21verb
go after with the intent to catch
"The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"
"the dog chased the rabbit"
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