flagnoun詞源 1/flæɡ/

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  A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.

  • The vote in the Bundestag (parliament) on Thursday makes defiling foreign flags equal to the crime of defiling the German flag. […] The new law also applies to acts of defilement besides burning, such as publicly ripping a flag up.
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  The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.

  • The flag of France has three vertical stripes.
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  nauticaltransportA flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.

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  nauticaltransportA signal flag.

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  The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.

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  computercomputingengineeringA variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.

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  computercomputingengineeringIn a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.

  • This will be used as a help message if the user passes in the --help flag, like so: […]
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  aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.

  • I was shooting an IFR approach down the San Francisco slot, when all of a sudden the ILS flag popped up.
  • […] and then the OFF flag popped up and the needle went dead.

flagverb詞源 1/flæɡ/

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  To furnish or deck out with flags.

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  To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.

  • Walcott was, briefly, awarded a penalty when he was upended in the box but referee Phil Dowd reversed his decision because Bendtner had been flagged offside.
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  To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.

  • Please flag down a taxi for me.
  • The electric locomotive is accompanied by a shunter who, in addition to his normal duties, flags the trains over the unprotected level crossings and opens the gates through which the line passes.
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  To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.

  • to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance
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  To note, mark or point out for attention.

  • I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.
  • Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsTo signal (an event).

  • The compiler flagged three errors.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsTo set a program variable to true.

  • Flag the debug option before running the program.
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  To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.

  • This method of hunting, however, is not so much practised now as formerly, as the antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag.

flagverb詞源 2/flæɡ/

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  To weaken, become feeble.

  • His strength flagged toward the end of the race.
  • He now sees a spirit has been raised against him, and he only watches till it begin to flag.
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  To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

  • as loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast
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  To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.

  • The Thousand Loves , that arm thy potent Eye , Must drop their Quivers , flag their Wings
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  To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.

  • there is nothing that flags the Spirits, disorders the Blood, and enfeebles the whole Body of Man, as intense Studies.

flagnoun詞源 3/flæɡ/

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  Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.

  • [T]he ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared by being lacked. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.
  • Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

flagnoun詞源 4/flæɡ/

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  A slice of turf; a sod.

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  A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.

  • “Huliganï,” fumed Pnin, shaking his head—and slipped slightly on a flag of the path that meandered down a turfy slope among the leafless elms.
  • On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.
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  geographygeologynatural-sciencesAny hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

flagverb詞源 4/flæɡ/

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  To pave with flagstones.

  • Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.

flagnoun詞源 5/flæɡ/

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  A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

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  A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

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  The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value