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flag¹ Definition

flag (flag)

noun

  1. a piece of cloth or bunting, often attached to a staff, with distinctive colors, patterns, or symbolic devices, used as a national or state symbol, as a signal, etc.; banner; standard; ensign
  2. Now Rare long feathers or quills, as on a hawk
  3. the tail of a deer
  4. the bushy tail of certain dogs, as setters and some hounds
  5. something, as a tab of metal or cardboard, that is attached to a card, folder, etc. so that it may be found easily, as in a file
  6. Comput. a character, symbol, etc. used to mark data or a record for special attention
  7. Music any of the lines extending from a stem, indicating whether the note is an eighth, sixteenth, etc.

Etymology: LME flagge < flag, in obs. sense “to flutter”

transitive verb flagged, flag′·ging

  1. to decorate or mark with flags
  2. to signal with or as with a flag; esp., to signal to stop: often with down
  3. to send (a message) by signaling
  4. to mark with or as with a flag ( & ) to flag a word for deletion

flag¹ Idioms

dip the flag

to salute by lowering a flag briefly

flag² Definition

flag (flag)

noun

flagstone

Etymology: ME flagge < ON flaga, slab of stone < IE *plāk-, to spread out, flat < base *plā > plain

flag³ Definition

flag (flag)

noun

    1. any of various wild irises with flat fans of sword-shaped leaves and white, blue, or yellow flowers
    2. any of various cultivated irises
  2. sweet flag
  3. cattail
  4. the flower or leaf of any of these plants

Etymology: ME flagge < ?

flag4 Definition

flag (flag)

intransitive verb flagged, flag′·ging

  1. to become limp; droop
  2. to lose strength; grow weak or tired his energy flagged

Etymology: 16th c., prob. < ON flǫgra, to flutter < IE base *plāk-, to strike > flaw

flag Synonyms

flag

n.

  1. A symbol, especially of a nation, usually on cloth

    banner, standard, pennant, pennon, streamer, colors, ensign, emblem, bunting, gonfalon, oriflamme, jack, Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, Union Jack, tricolor, Jolly Roger.

  2. Iris

    blue flag, fleur-de-lis, sweet flag; see iris.

strike the flag

surrender, quit, give up; see yield 1.

flag Synonyms

flag

v.

  1. To signal

    wave, hail, give a sign to; see signal.

  2. To lose strength

    languish, dwindle, wane; see decrease 1, weaken 1.

flag Finance Definition

A technical analysis chart pattern that looks like a flag. A flag pattern shows upward price movement followed by declining price movement that is in a channel formation (meaning that is it constant and definite). The flag formation typically lasts just several weeks and shows a period of price congestion, or little movement, in prices. When the flag pattern ends, prices typically resume the direction of the trend that occurred before the flag.

flag Telecom Definition

  1. A marker or indicator of a condition, such as an error condition, in a program or file. See also file and program.
  2. In Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC), High-level Data Link Control (HDLC), and other frame-based communications protocols, a specific eight-bit pattern that alerts the receiving device to the beginning or end of a frame, i.e., message unit.The most commonly used flag character is 01111110 in binary code (7E in hexadecimal). Flags also fill all idle time on the line between frames. Only one flag is needed between frames. See also frame, HDLC, hexadecimal notation, protocol, and SDLC.

flag Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • truce: By 3.30p.m. letters were exchanged under flags of truce and the fighting ceased, most of the Danish ships and forts being silenced.
  • convenience: For you, in Edinburgh, Britain may seem a flag of convenience for Greater England.

Converse of object

  • checker: A short distance ahead, Edgar took the checkered flag to confirm his second victory of the season.
  • fly: Adam, Swansea, Wales I fly the union flag from my desk at work.
  • click: Experimental feature: Order Death in a Beach Chair from the UK, Canada, Germany or France by clicking an appropriate flag below.
  • checker: Either zero or its contract with billion or more grabbed the checkered flag.
  • wave: Instead of waving the white flag, the Government should be seeking a new deal with France.

Adjective modifier

  • red: These are difficult people to deal with, they're the people who march in the church parade carrying the red flags.
  • yellow: If yellow flags are on, you will not be able to turn around.
  • appropriate: Please choose a country by clicking on the appropriate flag.

Modifies a noun

  • iris: Look out for orchids, yellow flag iris, ferns.
  • pole: Beyond the Stone is the Essex Police flag pole.
  • bearer: Top left panel shows two masked loyalists, one a flag bearer of the YCV, the other holding a rifle.

Noun used with modifier

  • offside: McBride was looking lively in attack and it took an offside flag to halt his progress as both teams sought that vital early goal.
  • rainbow: The rainbow flag, originally from Italy, with PACE or PEACE on it.
  • bad-pixel: The output bad-pixel flag is set to indicate no bad values in the data and variance arrays.
  • -c: However, the configure.py script takes a -c command line flag which concatenates each module's C++ source files into one large file.
  • compiler: Compiler flags The command line may optionally be given a flag or flags which affect how scc operates.
  • corner: Redhill incidentally, boasts the most bizarrely sited stand in the League, next to the corner flag.