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Definition of 'flag'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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.

2.  flag
the tail of a deer or of a setter dog.

3.  flag
a tab or tag attached, as to a page, to attract attention.

4.  flag
any of the angled lines attached to a musical note.

5. (v.t.) flag
to place a flag or flags over or on; decorate with flags.

6.  flag
to signal or warn with or as if with a flag (sometimes fol. by down):
to flag down a train.

7.  flag
to decoy, as game, by waving a flag or the like to excite attention or curiosity.

8.  flag
to mark (a page, file, etc.) with a tab or tag.

9. (n.) flag
any of various plants with long, sword-shaped leaves, as the sweet flag.

10. (v.i.) flag
to fall off in activity, interest, etc.

11.  flag
to hang loosely or limply; droop.

12. (v.t.) flag
to pave with flagstones.

Etymology: (1400–50; ME flagge piece of sod)

Definition of 'flag'

Princeton's WordNet

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

Definition of 'flag'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) flag
a piece of cloth with a pattern that represents a country or organization
the Chinese/French/Israeli flag

2. (verb) flag
to mark sth written so that sb will notice 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

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

Definitions of 'flag'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

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.

Translation of 'flag'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of cloth with a particular design representing a country, party, association etc the French flag.
Afrikaans: vlag	Arabic: عَلَم، بَيْرَق، رايَه	Bulgarian: знаме
Brazilian: bandeira	Czech: vlajka	German: die Fahne
Danish: flag; fane	Greek: σημαία	Spanish: bandera
Estonian: lipp	Farsi: پرچم	Finnish: lippu
French: drapeau	Hebrew: דֶגֶל	Hindi: झंडा
Croatian: nacionalna zastava	Hungarian: zászló	Indonesian: bendera
Italian: bandiera	Japanese: 旗	Korean: (국가, 조직, 단체의) 기
Lithuanian: vėliava	Latvian: karogs	Malay: bendera
Dutch: vlag	Norwegian: flagg	Polish: flaga
Persian: پرچم	Pashto: بیرغ	Portuguese: bandeira
Romanian: steag	Russian: флаг	Slovak: zástava, vlajka
Slovenian: zastava	Serbian: zastava	Swedish: flagga
Thai: ธง	Turkish: bayrak	Taiwanese: 旗子
Ukrainian: прапор	Urdu: جھنڈا، پرچم	Vietnamese: cờ
Chinese: 旗
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