From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
tag
n 1: a label made of cardboard or plastic or metal
2: a small piece of cloth or paper [syn: rag, shred, {tag
end}, tatter]
3: a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is
caught becomes the next chaser
4: (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which
changes their status in the game)
v 1: attach a tag or label to; "label these bottles" [syn:
label, mark]
2: touch a player while he is holding the ball
3: provide with a name or nickname
4: go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the
mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn:
chase, chase after, trail, tail, give chase,
dog, go after, track]
5: supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tag \Tag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tagged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tagging.]
1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
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He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
--Macaulay.
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His courteous host . . .
Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
--Dryden.
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2. To join; to fasten; to attach. --Bolingbroke.
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3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the
game of tag. See Tag, a play.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tag \Tag\, v. i.
To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with
after; as, to tag after a person.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tag \Tag\, n. [From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.]
A child's play in which one runs after and touches another,
and then runs away to avoid being touched.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tag \Tag\, n. [Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg
a prickle, point, tooth.]
1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something
slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or
label.
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2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a
string, or lace, to stiffen it.
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3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
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4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.]
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Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. --Holinshed.
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5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
tag
<language, text> An SGML, HTML, or XML token
representing the beginning (start tag: "<p ...>") or end (end
tag: "</p>") of an element. In normal SGML syntax (and
always in XML), a tag starts with a "<" and ends with an
">".
In HTML jargon, the term "tag" is often used for an
"element".
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