1. (n.)flag a typically rectangular piece of cloth marked with distinctive colors or designs and used as a symbol, as of a nation or organization, or as a means of signaling.
1. (noun)flag emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
2. (noun)masthead, flag a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
3. (noun)iris, flag, fleur-de-lis, sword lily plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
4. (noun)flag, signal flag a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
5. (noun)pin, flag flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
6. (noun)flag, flagstone stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
7. (verb)flag a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
2. (verb)flag to mark sth written so that sb willnotice it She flagged several corrections in the document.
Definition of 'FLAG'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)FLAG that which flags or hangs down loosely
2. (noun)FLAG a cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag
3. (noun)FLAG a group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc
4. (noun)FLAG a group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks
5. (noun)FLAG the bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter
6. (noun)FLAG an aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus
7. (noun)FLAG a flat stone used for paving
8. (noun)FLAG any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones
9. (verb)FLAG to hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp
10. (verb)FLAG to droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags
11. (verb)FLAG to let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings
12. (verb)FLAG to enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of
13. (verb)FLAG to signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train
1. FLAG [very common] A variable or quantity that can take on one of two
values; a bit, particularly one that is used to indicate one of two
outcomes or is used to control which of two things is to be done.
“This flag controls whether to clear the screen before printing the
message.” “The program status word contains several flag
bits.” Used of humans analogously to bit.
See also hidden flag,
mode bit.