Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tag"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a
string, or lace, to stiffen it.
3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.]
{Tag and rag}, the lowest sort; the rabble. --Holinshed.
5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tag \Tag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tagged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tagging}.]
1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
--Macaulay.
His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with
some fawning word. --Dryden.
2. To join; to fasten; to attach. --Bolingbroke.
3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the
game of tag. See {Tag}, a play.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tag \Tag\, v. i.
To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with
after; as, to tag after a person.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tag
n 1: a label made of cardboard or plastic or metal
2: a small piece of cloth [syn: {rag}, {shred}, {tag end}, {tatter}]
3: one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes
the next chaser
4: touching a player in a game
v 1: attach a tag or label to; "label these bottles" [syn: {label},
{mark}]
2: as in baseball: touch a player while he is holding the ball
3: provide with a name or nickname
4: go after with the intent to catch [syn: {chase}, {chase
after}, {trail}, {tail}, {dog}, {go after}, {track}]
5: supply with rhymes, as of blank verse or prose
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