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tagging, vbl. n.|ˈtægɪŋ|
[f. tag v.1 and n.1 + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of tag v.1
1503Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 202 For ane curpal and ane tee to the harnes sadill, tagging..of the samyn. 1572in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 159 For Tagging of Laces iiijd. 1693Dennis Imp. Crit. v. 50 'Tis not the tagging of the Acts with a Chorus, that properly makes a Tragedy one Body, but the Unity of the Action. 1779F. Burney Diary 11 Jan., What trouble and tagging we had! a1890New Amer. Farm Bk. 436 (Cent. Dict.) Tagging or clotting is the removal of such wool as is liable to get fouled when the sheep are turned on to the fresh pastures. 1906Athenæum 2 June 664/3 An occasional..tagging-out of a line.
b. The marking of animals as an aid to study of their migrations.
1927Zoologica IX. 201 (title) Frog tagging: a method of studying anuran life habits. 1953Scott & Fisher Thousand Geese vi. 65 We worked away in camp at journals, nest records, tagging data. 1960Guardian 25 Oct. 8/4 To study the movement and growth rates there is an elaborate system of fish tagging carried out at sea. 1972Even. Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 24 June 11/1 Tagging studies have shown most salmon intercepted are headed for the northern river spawning beds.
c. Computers. The action of tag v. 1 e.
1948Theory & Techniques for Design of Electronic Digital Computers (Moore School of Electr. Engin., Univ. of Pennsylvania) IV. xxxix. 20 This tagging is done by the little cycle..until the sentinel..trips on a coincidence and causes the control to go on to the next stage of computation. 1972Computers & Humanities VII. 5 The study of Automatic Grammatical Tagging of English..describes the theory and method of parts-of-speech tags, procedures used in tagging, and the context frame test employed. 1983Trans. Philol. Soc. 33 The tagging of the LOB Corpus is due for completion by September 1983.
2. attrib., as † tagging iron, a tailor's tool for tagging cloth.
1436Exch. Rolls Scotl. IV. 681 Certis ferris scissorum dictis taging irynnis.
Add:[1.] d. Also electronic tagging. The action or process of attaching an electronic tag (see *tag n.1 8 h) to an object or person, esp. to control stock or monitor movement. orig. U.S.
1977U.S. News & World Rep. 28 Nov. 61/3 More and more merchants are using electronic tagging to prevent..thefts. 1984Financial Times 15 Aug. 6/7 Things like carpets, furniture and lawn mowers do not so readily lend themselves to electronic tagging as do the small, packaged contents..of a supermarket. 1987Times 24 Apr. 5/1 The use of American-style electronic tagging, used to check offenders held in the community are staying within bounds. 1988Times 18 Jan. 4/3 Tagging involves an electronic device being attached to the offender's ankle or wrist to show he is at home during curfew. 1989Daily Tel. 20 Dec. 14/2 The latest statistics point to a majority of people working with offenders as being in favour of tagging as a potential reducer of..crime.
e. The action or process of decorating with graffiti tags; also, these tags collectively. slang (orig. U.S.).
1984New Yorker 26 Mar. 98/3 The average age for ‘tagging’ (name-writing)..on the subway is fourteen or fifteen. 1987Daily Mail 12 Sept. 9/4 The hip-hoppers who put their logos on buses and trains call it ‘tagging’. 1988Church Times 2 Sept. 5/1 ‘Tagging’ is being added to the general disfigurement of the bridge. 1990Daily Tel. 11 June 34/7 The region's quality manager..says there are two types of graffiti—‘tagging’, which is scrawly handwriting, or ‘pieces’ which feature a full-blown picture. |