tag

Pronunciation

• enPR: tăg, IPA ^(key): /tæɡ/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

Noun

Singular tag

Plural tags

A price tag

1. (countable) A tag is a small label, mostly a price tag.

   Would you mind if I removed the price tag on your shirt?

2. (uncountable) Tag is a game where children run around trying to touch each other and not to be touched.

   That was a great game of tag!

3. (countable) (computing) In some computer languages, if you tag text, you put a code near it to identify it or to change the way it looks.

   The <title> tag in HTML is the page name.

Verb

Plain form tag

Third-person singular tags

Past tense tagged

Past participle tagged

Present participle tagging

1. (transitive) If you tag something, you put a tag on it.

   We tagged the shirts so that we could find which one was which.