tag
tag /t'æg/ (tags tagging tagged)
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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.
Staff wore name tags.
...baggage tags.
see also dog tag, price tag
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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.
A hospital is to fit new-born babies with electronic tags to foil kidnappers...
see also electronic tagging
3 [VERB] V n
If you tag something, you attach something to it or mark it so that it can be identified later.
Professor Orr has developed interesting ways of tagging chemical molecules using existing laboratory lasers...
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.
= label
5 [VERB] V n with n, be V-ed n, also V n as n, V n
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)
...the pundits were still tagging him with that age-old label, `best of a bad bunch'...
She has always lived in John's house and is still tagged `Dad's girlfriend' by his children.
= label
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see also question tagdog tag (dog tags)
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Dog tags are metal identification discs that are worn on a chain around the neck by members of the United States armed forces.price tag (price tags)
also price-tag
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If something has a price tag of a particular amount, that is the amount that you must pay in order to buy it. (WRITTEN)
The price tag on the 34-room white Regency mansion is £17.5 million.
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In a shop, the price tag on an article for sale is a small piece of card or paper which is attached to the article and which has the price written on it.ques|tion tag (question tags)
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In grammar, a question tag is a very short clause at the end of a statement which changes the statement into a question. For example, in `She said half price, didn't she?', the words `didn't she' are a question tag.tag along
[PHRASAL VERB] V P, V P with n
If someone goes somewhere and you tag along, you go with them, especially when they have not asked you to.
I let him tag along because he had not been too well recently...
She seems quite happy to tag along with them.tag line (tag lines)
also tag-line
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The tag line of something such as a television commercial or a joke is the phrase that comes at the end and is meant to be amusing or easy to remember.tag on
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron)
If you tag something on, you add it. (INFORMAL)
It is also worth tagging on an extra day or two to see the capital...
= tack on
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.
Staff wore name tags.
...baggage tags.
see also dog tag, price tag
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.
A hospital is to fit new-born babies with electronic tags to foil kidnappers...
see also electronic tagging
3 [VERB] V n
If you tag something, you attach something to it or mark it so that it can be identified later.
Professor Orr has developed interesting ways of tagging chemical molecules using existing laboratory lasers...
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.
= label
5 [VERB] V n with n, be V-ed n, also V n as n, V n
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)
...the pundits were still tagging him with that age-old label, `best of a bad bunch'...
She has always lived in John's house and is still tagged `Dad's girlfriend' by his children.
= label
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see also question tagdog tag (dog tags)
[N-COUNT] usu pl
Dog tags are metal identification discs that are worn on a chain around the neck by members of the United States armed forces.price tag (price tags)
also price-tag
1 [N-COUNT]
If something has a price tag of a particular amount, that is the amount that you must pay in order to buy it. (WRITTEN)
The price tag on the 34-room white Regency mansion is £17.5 million.
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In a shop, the price tag on an article for sale is a small piece of card or paper which is attached to the article and which has the price written on it.ques|tion tag (question tags)
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In grammar, a question tag is a very short clause at the end of a statement which changes the statement into a question. For example, in `She said half price, didn't she?', the words `didn't she' are a question tag.tag along
[PHRASAL VERB] V P, V P with n
If someone goes somewhere and you tag along, you go with them, especially when they have not asked you to.
I let him tag along because he had not been too well recently...
She seems quite happy to tag along with them.tag line (tag lines)
also tag-line
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The tag line of something such as a television commercial or a joke is the phrase that comes at the end and is meant to be amusing or easy to remember.tag on
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron)
If you tag something on, you add it. (INFORMAL)
It is also worth tagging on an extra day or two to see the capital...
= tack on