tag
noun
[ taɡ ]
• a label attached to someone or something for the purpose of identification or to give other information.
• "he gave his pet a collar with a metal name tag"
Similar:
label,
ticket,
badge,
mark,
marker,
tab,
tally,
sticker,
docket,
stub,
chit,
chitty,
counterfoil,
flag,
stamp,
• a small piece or part that is attached to a main body.
• a frequently repeated quotation or stock phrase.
• "his writing is full of tags from the Bible and Shakespeare"
Similar:
quotation,
stock phrase,
platitude,
cliché,
epithet,
quote,
extract,
excerpt,
passage,
allusion,
phrase,
saying,
proverb,
maxim,
axiom,
adage,
saw,
aphorism,
motto,
epigram,
epigraph,
dictum,
formula,
truism,
slogan,
catchphrase,
gobbet,
tag
verb
• attach a label to.
• "mothers suspected that their babies had been wrongly tagged during an alarm at the hospital"
Similar:
label,
attach tags to,
put a label on,
mark,
ticket,
earmark,
identify,
docket,
flag,
indicate,
• add to something, especially as an afterthought or with no real connection.
• "she meant to tag her question on at the end of her remarks"
• shear away ragged locks of wool from (sheep).
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a narrow hanging section of a decoratively slashed garment): of unknown origin; compare with dag. The verb dates from the early 17th century.
tag
noun
• a children's game in which one child chases the others and anyone who is caught then becomes the pursuer.
• "we began to play tag under the water"
tag
verb
• touch (someone being chased) in a game of tag.
Origin:
mid 18th century: perhaps a variant of tig.
