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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

8. (verb) flag
communicate or signal with a flag

9. (verb) flag
provide with a flag
"Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately"

10. (verb) sag, droop, swag, flag
droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

11. (verb) flag
decorate with flags
"the building was flagged for the holiday"

12. (verb) ease up, ease off, slacken off, flag
become less intense


Definitions of 'FLAG' Webster 1913 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

14. (verb) FLAG
to convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance

15. (verb) FLAG
to furnish or deck out with flags

16. (verb) FLAG
to lay with flags of flat stones


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