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noun
- A nickname or epithet.
- An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
- Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
- A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
- A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
- a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
noun
- A title or epithet.
- A beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book, typically serving to contextualize or explain the writing of the book and sometimes to acknowledge others' contributions; especially, such a discussion written by the work's own author.
- An introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
- (Christianity) A variable prayer forming the prelude or introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer or canon of the Mass, following the Sursum corda dialogue and leading into the Sanctus.
- a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
verb
verb
- give a nickname to
- raise (someone) to knighthood
- provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- (transitive, now informal) To name, to entitle, to call.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- (golf) To execute a shot poorly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- (transitive) To deem.
- (transitive, now historical or ceremonial) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To do something badly.
- To dress a fishing fly.
noun
- the new sounds added by dubbing
- (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- (slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
- (slang) A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- (UK, dialect) A pool or puddle.
- Clipping of double-u.
- (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- (India, historical) A small copper coin once used in India.
- (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.
- (slang, now historical) An unskillful, awkward person.
- (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- (golf) A poorly executed shot.
- (video games, Internet slang) A win.
- (music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
verb
noun
- a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
- a descriptive name for a place or thing
- A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.
- A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.
noun
- (taxonomy) A specific epithet.
- (chemistry) A commonly used, non-systematic name of a chemical compound. Trivial names for many compounds have been in use since long before their exact chemical structures were determined.
- A non-systematic name for a chemical element (see systematic element name).
- (biology) A commonly used, non-systematic name for an organism.
verb
- provide with a name or nickname
- touch a player while they are holding the ball
- go after with the intent to catch
- attach a tag or label to
- supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
- (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
- (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
- (transitive) To fasten; to attach.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- (transitive, online gaming, slang) To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to establish exclusive or partial eligibility for loot, experience points achievements, etc.
- To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- (transitive) To label (something).
- (transitive, music) To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag
noun
- a small piece of cloth
- a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
- a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
- (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
- (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- (heading) Signature.
- The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- (heading) Physical appendage.
- (slang) A person's name.
- (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- A small label.
- Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
- A sheep in its first year.
- (uncountable) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- A type of cardboard.
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
verb
- use a name to designate
- send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision
- have as a meaning
- seek information from
- be relevant to
- make reference to
- think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another
- (intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
- (transitive, education) To require to resit an examination.
- (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
- (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.
- (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
- (intransitive, of a term or name) To have the meaning of, to denote.
- (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
- (intransitive, programming) To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. [with to]
- (intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
noun
verb
- be called; go by a certain name
- move past
- for time to move forward
- be or act in accordance with
- (intransitive) To pass or go past without much interaction.
- (transitive, with gender pronouns as object) To suggest or request that other people use a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
- (transitive) To follow; to assume as true for the purposes of making a decision, taking an action, etc.
- (transitive) To be called, to use as a name.
verb
- be called; go by a certain name
- (idiomatic) To be named; to call oneself.
- disappear beyond the horizon
- go under
- (idiomatic) To collapse or fail, e.g. by going bankrupt.
- (idiomatic) To die.
- To descend into a body of water; to founder.
- (slang, Australia) To be imprisoned.
- To enter a trance, state of hypnosis, etc.
prep_phrase
name
noun
- A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.
- A person's signature.
- (computing) An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.
- a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
adj
- named; bearing the name of a specific person
- Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation
- existing in name only
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
- pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun
- relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name
- (taxonomy) Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.
- Existing in name only.
- (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
- Insignificantly small.
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
- (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
- Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
- (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.
- (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
- (engineering) According to plan or design.
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
- Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
noun
- a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
- (UK, police jargon) A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.
- (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
- A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
- (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
adj
- named; bearing the name of a specific person
- Giving a name; naming; designating.
- serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb
- appointed by nomination
- Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
- (grammar) Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
noun
verb
- To call by a distinctive title; to name.
- To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
- To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description
- assign a name or title to
- decree or designate beforehand
- give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- design or destine
adj
name
- (informal) A male nickname.
- A township in Harnett County, North Carolina, United States.
- (informal, usually with the definite article) The American actor John Wayne.
- An unincorporated community in Phelps County, Missouri, United States.
- (countable) A surname originating as an occupation for service in the household of a duke, or from a nickname.
- (countable) A male given name from English; mostly US and rather rare.
- (informal) Ellipsis of Duke University, a private university in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
noun
noun
noun
- (taxonomy) specific epithet, species epithet, specific name
- (taxonomy) A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: the generic name (or generic epithet, the genus of the species) and the specific name (a term used only in zoology, never in botany, for the second part of a binomial) or the specific epithet (the term always used in botany, which can also be used in zoology).
noun
- An antonym.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
adj
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
adv
prep
verb
- (ditransitive) To give a name to.
- (transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of.
- (transitive) To designate for a role.
- (transitive) To identify as relevant or important
- (transitive) To mention, specify.
- (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.
- (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
- determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- charge with a function; charge to be
- mention and identify by name
- give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- make reference to
- create and charge with a task or function
noun
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- A reputation.
- (computing) An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
- (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
- An authority; a behalf.
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
- A person (or legal person).
- a person's reputation
- a well-known or notable person
- by the sanction or authority of
- a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
- family based on male descent
- a language unit by which a person or thing is known
noun
- Another name; especially, an assumed name.
- a name that has been assumed
- (law) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
- (computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
- (signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
adv
verb
noun
- An informal title that is used to create a nickname, placeholder name, or other moniker for a male.
- A title used to designate the (male) winner of certain kinds of competition.
- An official form of address to a male president of a nation.
- A formal address to any male official of an organization.
- (colloquial, sometimes hostile, sometimes written 'mister') Used by itself as a familiar term of address to a man whose name is unknown, or sometimes even if the name is known.
- With a surname.
- (regional or dated subservient) With a first name only.
- With a full name.
- A male warrant officer or cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point.
- An official title of a military man, usually anyone below rank of captain.
- a form of address for a man
name
prep
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- (US, informal, considered incorrect by some) Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- (following an intransitive verb) Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- (following an adjective) Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- (following an adjective) Introduces its subject matter.
- (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- (directly following a noun) Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- (UK, dialectal, chiefly in the negative) For (a given length of time).
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- (following a passive verb) Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- (informal) Often used without the hour
- (following an adjective) Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- (following a noun) Indicates a given part.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- (after a noun) Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- (chiefly US) Before (the hour); to (the hour).
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
- (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- (following a number or other quantitive word) Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below; see also double possessive).
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
verb
noun
- (taxonomy) An infraspecific name in which the specific epithet is repeated.
- The true name of a person or other entity, especially an author.
- (linguistics, anthropology) A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.
- A work published under the author's true name.
adj
noun
noun
- A person’s nickname on the street, such as a gangster or mafia name; (loosely) any nickname.
- The slang term for a drug when it is traded as a street drug.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see street, name.
- slang for something (especially for an illegal drug)
- the name of a street
- the name of a brokerage firm in which stock is held on behalf of a customer
- an alternative name that a person chooses or is given (especially in inner city neighborhoods)
noun
- the person for whom something is named
- the name derived from a person (real or imaginary)
- Something that is named after a person.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) A name or term derived from any proper noun, inclusive of places, brands, etc.
- (sometimes proscribed) A name taken from a person, a namesake toponym, term, etc.
- A person who gave or supposedly gave their name to a people, place, institution, etc.
noun
- A nickname or epithet.
- An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
- Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
- A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
- A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
- a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
noun
- A title or epithet.
- A beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book, typically serving to contextualize or explain the writing of the book and sometimes to acknowledge others' contributions; especially, such a discussion written by the work's own author.
- An introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
- (Christianity) A variable prayer forming the prelude or introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer or canon of the Mass, following the Sursum corda dialogue and leading into the Sanctus.
- a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
verb
noun
- (taxonomy) A specific epithet.
- (chemistry) A commonly used, non-systematic name of a chemical compound. Trivial names for many compounds have been in use since long before their exact chemical structures were determined.
- A non-systematic name for a chemical element (see systematic element name).
- (biology) A commonly used, non-systematic name for an organism.
noun
- A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.
- A person's signature.
- (computing) An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.
- a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
noun
noun
- (taxonomy) specific epithet, species epithet, specific name
- (taxonomy) A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: the generic name (or generic epithet, the genus of the species) and the specific name (a term used only in zoology, never in botany, for the second part of a binomial) or the specific epithet (the term always used in botany, which can also be used in zoology).
noun
- An antonym.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
adj
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
adv
prep
noun
- Another name; especially, an assumed name.
- a name that has been assumed
- (law) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
- (computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
- (signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
adv
verb
noun
- An informal title that is used to create a nickname, placeholder name, or other moniker for a male.
- A title used to designate the (male) winner of certain kinds of competition.
- An official form of address to a male president of a nation.
- A formal address to any male official of an organization.
- (colloquial, sometimes hostile, sometimes written 'mister') Used by itself as a familiar term of address to a man whose name is unknown, or sometimes even if the name is known.
- With a surname.
- (regional or dated subservient) With a first name only.
- With a full name.
- A male warrant officer or cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point.
- An official title of a military man, usually anyone below rank of captain.
- a form of address for a man
name
noun
- (taxonomy) An infraspecific name in which the specific epithet is repeated.
- The true name of a person or other entity, especially an author.
- (linguistics, anthropology) A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.
- A work published under the author's true name.
noun
- A person’s nickname on the street, such as a gangster or mafia name; (loosely) any nickname.
- The slang term for a drug when it is traded as a street drug.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see street, name.
- slang for something (especially for an illegal drug)
- the name of a street
- the name of a brokerage firm in which stock is held on behalf of a customer
- an alternative name that a person chooses or is given (especially in inner city neighborhoods)
noun
- the person for whom something is named
- the name derived from a person (real or imaginary)
- Something that is named after a person.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) A name or term derived from any proper noun, inclusive of places, brands, etc.
- (sometimes proscribed) A name taken from a person, a namesake toponym, term, etc.
- A person who gave or supposedly gave their name to a people, place, institution, etc.
adj
noun
verb
- give a nickname to
- raise (someone) to knighthood
- provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- (transitive, now informal) To name, to entitle, to call.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- (golf) To execute a shot poorly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- (transitive) To deem.
- (transitive, now historical or ceremonial) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To do something badly.
- To dress a fishing fly.
noun
- the new sounds added by dubbing
- (countable) The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- (slang, countable) A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
- (slang) A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- (UK, dialect) A pool or puddle.
- Clipping of double-u.
- (slang) A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- (music, countable) A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- (India, historical) A small copper coin once used in India.
- (rare) A blow, thrust, or poke.
- (slang, now historical) An unskillful, awkward person.
- (music, uncountable) A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- (golf) A poorly executed shot.
- (video games, Internet slang) A win.
- (music, uncountable) A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
verb
noun
- a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
- a descriptive name for a place or thing
- A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.
- A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing.
verb
- provide with a name or nickname
- touch a player while they are holding the ball
- go after with the intent to catch
- attach a tag or label to
- supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
- (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
- (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
- (transitive) To fasten; to attach.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- (transitive, online gaming, slang) To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to establish exclusive or partial eligibility for loot, experience points achievements, etc.
- To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- (transitive) To label (something).
- (transitive, music) To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag
noun
- a small piece of cloth
- a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
- a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
- (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
- (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- (heading) Signature.
- The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- (heading) Physical appendage.
- (slang) A person's name.
- (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- A small label.
- Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
- A sheep in its first year.
- (uncountable) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- A type of cardboard.
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
verb
- use a name to designate
- send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision
- have as a meaning
- seek information from
- be relevant to
- make reference to
- think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another
- (intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
- (transitive, education) To require to resit an examination.
- (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
- (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.
- (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
- (intransitive, of a term or name) To have the meaning of, to denote.
- (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
- (intransitive, programming) To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. [with to]
- (intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
noun
verb
- be called; go by a certain name
- move past
- for time to move forward
- be or act in accordance with
- (intransitive) To pass or go past without much interaction.
- (transitive, with gender pronouns as object) To suggest or request that other people use a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
- (transitive) To follow; to assume as true for the purposes of making a decision, taking an action, etc.
- (transitive) To be called, to use as a name.
verb
- be called; go by a certain name
- (idiomatic) To be named; to call oneself.
- disappear beyond the horizon
- go under
- (idiomatic) To collapse or fail, e.g. by going bankrupt.
- (idiomatic) To die.
- To descend into a body of water; to founder.
- (slang, Australia) To be imprisoned.
- To enter a trance, state of hypnosis, etc.
verb
- To call by a distinctive title; to name.
- To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
- To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description
- assign a name or title to
- decree or designate beforehand
- give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- design or destine
adj
verb
- (ditransitive) To give a name to.
- (transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of.
- (transitive) To designate for a role.
- (transitive) To identify as relevant or important
- (transitive) To mention, specify.
- (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.
- (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
- determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- charge with a function; charge to be
- mention and identify by name
- give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- make reference to
- create and charge with a task or function
noun
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- A reputation.
- (computing) An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
- (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
- An authority; a behalf.
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
- A person (or legal person).
- a person's reputation
- a well-known or notable person
- by the sanction or authority of
- a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
- family based on male descent
- a language unit by which a person or thing is known
adj
- named; bearing the name of a specific person
- Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation
- existing in name only
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
- pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun
- relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name
- (taxonomy) Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.
- Existing in name only.
- (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
- Insignificantly small.
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
- (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
- Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
- (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.
- (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
- (engineering) According to plan or design.
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
- Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
noun
- a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
- (UK, police jargon) A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.
- (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
- A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
- (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
adj
- named; bearing the name of a specific person
- Giving a name; naming; designating.
- serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb
- appointed by nomination
- Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
- (grammar) Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.