Meaning

14 senses
  1. (transitive)To label (something).

    attach a tag or label to

  2. (transitive)To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.

  3. (transitive)To remove dung tags from a sheep.

    Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.

  4. (colloquial, transitive)To hit the ball hard.

    He really tagged that ball.

  5. (slang, transitive, vulgar)To have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)

    Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.

  6. (transitive)To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.

    He tagged the runner for the out.

  7. (transitive)To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

    I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.

  8. (Internet, transitive)To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.

  9. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.

  10. (transitive)To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).

    touch a player while they are holding the ball

  11. (transitive)To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.

  12. (transitive)To fasten; to attach.

    a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy

Examples

205 sentences
  1. I can't see the price tag.

    Я не бачу цінник. — older

    ruЯ не вижу ценник. — vodka

    deIch kann das Preisschild nicht sehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. You don't have a name tag.

    У вас немає бейджа з іменем. — deniko

  3. Tom doesn't have a name tag.

    У Тома немає бейджа. — deniko

    deTom hat kein Namensschild. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Tom was wearing a name tag.

    У Тома була табличка з його іменем. — deniko

  5. Why don't we play tag?

    Чому б нам не зіграти в квача? — deniko

    ruПочему бы нам не сыграть в теги? — BW

Translations

5 languages

Origin

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North German

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

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Forms

tags, tagging, tagged, tagged
Base formtag · to tag
3rd person singulartags
Present participletagging
Past simpletagged
Past participletagged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytag
he, she, ittags

Past simpleLesson

all personstagged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave tagged
he, she, ithas tagged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill tag

Phrasal verbs

5 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

18 related words

Collocations

8 patterns
  • name tag
  • the price tag
  • a name tag
  • price tag
  • tag along
  • playing tag
  • to tag along
  • play tag

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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