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单词 flag
释义 flag
flag1
 —flagger,  n.   —flagless,  adj.  
 /flag/,  n.  ,  v.  , flagged, flagging.
  n.  
  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.  Ornith.   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.  Motion Pictures  ,  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.
  10. 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.
  v.t.  
  11. to place a flag or flags over or on; decorate with flags.
  12. 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.
  13. to communicate (information) by or as if by a flag.
  14. to decoy, as game, by waving a flag or the like to excite attention or curiosity.
  15. to mark (a page in a book, file card, etc.) for attention, as by attaching protruding tabs.
  16. (of a brush) to split the ends of the bristles.
 [1475-85; perh. b. FLAP (n.) and FAG1 (n.) in obs. sense "flap"]
flag2
 /flag/,  n.  
  1. any of various plants with long, sword-shaped leaves, as the sweet flag.
  2. See blue flag.
  3. the long, slender leaf of such a plant or of a cereal.
 [1350-1400; ME flagge]
flag3
 /flag/,  v.i.  , flagged, flagging.
  1. to fall off in vigor, energy, activity, interest, etc.: Public enthusiasm flagged when the team kept losing.
  2. to hang loosely or limply; droop.
 [1535-45; perh. b. of FLAP (v.) and FAG1 (v.) in obs. sense "to droop". See FLAG1]
 Syn. 1. dwindle, wilt, slump, sag, wane.
flag4
 —flagger,  n.  
 /flag/,  n.  ,  v.  , flagged, flagging.
  n.  
  1. flagstone (def. 1).
  2. flags, flagstone (def. 2).
  v.t.  
  3. to pave with flagstones.
 [1400-50; late ME flagge piece of sod; akin to ON flaga slab]
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