flag
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
flag
n 1: emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth
of distinctive design
2: 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. [syn:
{masthead}, {flag}]
3: plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing
bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three
drooping sepals [syn: {iris}, {flag}, {fleur-de-lis}, {sword
lily}]
4: a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
[syn: {flag}, {signal flag}]
5: flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf
green [syn: {pin}, {flag}]
6: stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving
stones [syn: {flag}, {flagstone}]
7: a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
v 1: communicate or signal with a flag
2: provide with a flag; "Flag this file so that I can recognize
it immediately"
3: droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of
tautness [syn: {sag}, {droop}, {swag}, {flag}]
4: decorate with flags; "the building was flagged for the
holiday"
5: become less intense [syn: {ease up}, {ease off}, {slacken
off}, {flag}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flag \Flag\, v. t. [From {Flag} an ensign.]
1. To signal to with a flag or by waving the hand; as, to
flag a train; also used with down; as, to flag down a cab.
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2. To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to
flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
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3. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, or the
like to arouse the animal's curiosity.
The antelope are getting continually shyer and more
difficult to flag. --T.
Roosevelt.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flagged} (fl[a^]gd);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Flagging} (fl[a^]g"g[i^]ng).] [Cf. Icel.
flaka to droop, hang loosely. Cf. {Flacker}, {Flag} an
ensign.]
1. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible
bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
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As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast. --T.
Moore.
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2. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish;
as, the spirits flag; the strength flags.
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The pleasures of the town begin to flag. --Swift.
Syn: To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), v. t.
1. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into
feebleness; as, to flag the wings. --prior.
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2. To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
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Nothing so flags the spirits. --Echard.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flag \Flag\, n. [Cf. LG. & G. flagge, Sw. flagg, Dan. flag, D.
vlag. See {Flag} to hang loose.]
1. That which flags or hangs down loosely.
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2. 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.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of
certain hawks, owls, etc.
(b) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
(c) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
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4. (Zool.) One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird;
-- called also {flag feather}.
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{Black flag}. See under {Black}.
{Flag captain}, {Flag leutenant}, etc., special officers
attached to the flagship, as aids to the flag officer.
{Flag officer}, the commander of a fleet or squadron; an
admiral, or commodore.
{Flag of truse}, a white flag carried or displayed to an
enemy, as an invitation to conference, or for the purpose
of making some communication not hostile.
{Flag share}, the flag officer's share of prize money.
{Flag station} (Railroad), a station at which trains do not
stop unless signaled to do so, by a flag hung out or
waved.
{National flag}, a flag of a particular country, on which
some national emblem or device, is emblazoned.
{Red flag}, a flag of a red color, displayed as a signal of
danger or token of defiance; the emblem of anarchists.
{To dip, the flag}, to mlower it and quickly restore it to
its place; -- done as a mark of respect.
{To hang out the white flag}, to ask truce or quarter, or, in
some cases, to manifest a friendly design by exhibiting a
white flag.
{To hang the flag half-mast high} or {To hang the flag
half-staff} or {To hang the flag at half-staff}, to raise it
only half way to the mast or staff, as a token or sign of
mourning.
{To strike the flag} or {To lower the flag}, to haul it down,
in token of respect, submission, or, in an engagement, of
surrender.
{Yellow flag}, the quarantine flag of all nations; also
carried at a vessel's fore, to denote that an infectious
disease is on board.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flag \Flag\, n. [From {Flag} to hang loose, to bend down.]
(Bot.)
An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to
either of the genera {Iris} and {Acorus}.
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{Cooper's flag}, the cat-tail ({Typha latifolia}), the long
leaves of which are placed between the staves of barrels
to make the latter water-tight.
{Corn flag}. See under 2d {Corn}.
{Flag broom}, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or
rushes.
{Flag root}, the root of the sweet flag.
{Sweet flag}. See {Calamus}, n., 2.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flag \Flag\, n. [Icel. flaga, cf. Icel. flag spot where a turf
has been cut out, and E. flake layer, scale. Cf. {Floe}.]
1. A flat stone used for paving. --Woodward.
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2. (Geol.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which
splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
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from
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and
ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one
sees and vacant lots in London -- "Rubbish may be shot here."
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
flag
n.
[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}.
from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Flag
(Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11), rendered "meadow" in
Gen. 41:2, 18; probably the Cyperus esculentus, a species of
rush eaten by cattle, the Nile reed. It also grows in Palestine.
In Ex. 2:3, 5, Isa. 19:6, it is the rendering of the Hebrew
_suph_, a word which occurs frequently in connection with _yam_;
as _yam suph_, to denote the "Red Sea" (q.v.) or the sea of
weeds (as this word is rendered, Jonah 2:5). It denotes some
kind of sedge or reed which grows in marshy places. (See PAPER
�T0002840, {REED}.)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
318 Moby Thesaurus words for "flag":
Dannebrog, Jolly Roger, Old Glory, Star-Spangled Banner,
Stars and Stripes, Tarmac, Tarvia, Union Flag, Union Jack, abate,
adobe, and blue, ashlar, asphalt, banderole, banner, banneret,
bead, beat, beat the drum, bejewel, beribbon, bespangle, bitumen,
bituminous macadam, black flag, blacktop, blade, blow, blue ensign,
bract, bracteole, bractlet, break, break down, brick,
bricks and mortar, bunting, burgee, burn out, carpet, causeway,
cave in, cement, check off, clinker, coachwhip, cobble,
cobblestone, collapse, color, colors, come apart, come unstuck,
concrete, conk out, cotyledon, covering materials, crack up,
crumble, curb, curbing, curbstone, dally, dangle, dawdle,
debilitate, decline, decrease, degenerate, delay, desiccate,
deteriorate, diamond, die, dillydally, diminish, dip, disintegrate,
do in, do up, drag, droop, drop, dry up, dwindle, ease up, ebb,
edgestone, enervate, engrave, ensign, exchange colors, exhaust,
fade, fade away, fag, fag out, fail, faint, fall off, falter,
fatigue, feather, ferroconcrete, festoon, figure, filigree,
firebrick, fizzle out, flag down, flagging, flagstone, flash,
floor, flooring, floral leaf, flounce, flower, foliole, frazzle,
frond, garland, gasp, gem, gesture, get tired, give a signal,
give out, give the nod, give way, glance, glume, go downhill,
go soft, go to pieces, gonfalon, gonfanon, goof off, gravel,
grow weary, guidon, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, halt,
hang down, harass, hit the skids, hoist a banner, house flag,
identify, illuminate, inform, involucre, involucrum, jack, jade,
jewel, kerb, kerbstone, kick, knock out, knock up, label, lag,
lamina, languish, lath and plaster, leaf, leaflet, leer, lemma,
lessen, let up, ligule, linger, loiter, lollygag, long pennant,
lose strength, macadam, make a sign, mark, masonry, merchant flag,
metal, mortar, motion, national flag, needle, nod, nudge,
oriflamme, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, paint,
pant, pave, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material,
paving stone, peak, pebble, peg out, pendant, pennant, pennon,
pennoncel, petal, peter out, pile, pine, pine needle, plasters,
play out, plume, poke, poop, poop out, prestressed concrete,
prostrate, puff, puff and blow, raise a cry, red, red ensign,
ribbon, road metal, roofage, roofing, royal standard, run down,
run out, sag, salute, sear, seed leaf, sepal, shilly-shally,
shrink, shrivel, siding, sign, signal, signal flag, signalize,
sink, slump, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, spangle, spathe,
speak, spear, spire, standard, stipula, stipule, stone, stop,
streamer, subside, succumb, swag, swallowtail, tab, tag, taper off,
tar, tarmacadam, tarry, tick off, tile, tiling, tinsel, tire,
tire out, tire to death, touch, trail, tricolor, tucker,
unfurl a flag, use up, vexillum, walling, wane, warn, washboard,
waste, waste away, waste time, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand,
weaken, wear, wear away, wear down, wear on, wear out, wear thin,
weary, wheeze, white, wilt, wind, wink, wither, wither away, wizen,
wreathe, yield
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