flag1 Audio Help /flæg/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[flag] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, flagged, flag·ging.
–noun
1. a piece of cloth, varying in size, shape, color, and design, usually attached at one edge to a staff or cord, and used as the symbol of a nation, state, or organization, as a means of signaling, etc.; ensign; standard; banner; pennant.
2. Ornithology. the tuft of long feathers on the legs of falcons and most hawks; the lengthened feathers on the crus or tibia.
3. Hunting. the tail of a deer or of a setter dog.
4. Journalism.
a. the nameplate of a newspaper.
b. masthead (def. 1).
c. the name of a newspaper as printed on the editorial page.
5. a tab or tag attached to a page, file card, etc., to mark it for attention.
6. Music. hook (def. 12a).
7. Movies, Television. a small gobo.
8. Usually, flags. the ends of the bristles of a brush, esp. a paintbrush, when split.
9. Computers. a symbol, value, or other means of identifying data of interest, or of informing later parts of a program what conditions earlier parts have encountered.
–verb (used with object)
10. to place a flag or flags over or on; decorate with flags.
11. to signal or warn (a person, automobile, etc.) with or as if with a flag (sometimes fol. by down): to flag a taxi; to flag down a passing car.
12. to communicate (information) by or as if by a flag.
13. to decoy, as game, by waving a flag or the like to excite attention or curiosity.
14. to mark (a page in a book, file card, etc.) for attention, as by attaching protruding tabs.
15. (of a brush) to split the ends of the bristles.
—Idiom
16. strike the flag,
a. to relinquish command, as of a ship.
b. to submit or surrender: His financial situation is growing worse, but he's not ready to strike the flag.
Also, strike one's flag.
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