Meaning of flag | Babel Free

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1. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol
2. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
   countable, uncountable
3. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
4. A slice of turf; a sod.
5. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
6. 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
7. A plant, such as an iris or cattail, that has long sword-shaped leaves.
8. 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.
   countable, uncountable
9. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
10. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
11. To lose vigor or strength; weaken or diminish: The conversation flagged.
12. A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship
13. A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
    countable, uncountable
14. Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
15. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
16. A flagstone.
17. A signal flag
18. A signal flag.
    attributive, countable, often, uncountable
19. A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
20. To pave with slabs of flagstone.
21. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event
22. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
    countable, uncountable
23. any of various plants with long, sword-shaped leaves, as the sweet flag.
24. A 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.
    countable, uncountable
25. Yellow cloth thrown in the air by an official to signal a violation.
26. In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
    countable, uncountable
27. Fabric used especially as a symbol:banderole, banner, banneret, color (used in plural), ensign, jack, oriflamme, pennant, pennon, standard, streamer.
28. A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
    countable, uncountable
29. To communicate by means of such devices as lights or signs:semaphore, signal.
30. The game of capture the flag.
    British, uncountable
31. a piece of cloth with a particular design representing a country, party, association etc. the French flag. vlag عَلَم، بَيْرَق، رايَه знаме bandeira vlajka die Fahne flag; fane σημαίαbandera lipp پرچم lippu drapeauדגל झंडा nacionalna zastava zászló bendera bandiera 旗 (국가, 조직, 단체의) 기 vėliava karogs bendera vlagflaggflaga بیرغ bandeira steag флаг zástava, vlajka zastava zastava flagga ธง bayrak 旗子 прапор جھنڈا، پرچم cờ 旗
    etc
32. A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
    countable, uncountable
33. the pole on which a flag is hung. vlagpaal عامود العَلَم флагщок pau da bandeira stožár der Fahnenmast flagstang κοντάρι σημαίας asta lipuvarras میله پرچم lipputanko mâtתורן झंडा फहराने का स्तम्भ stijeg (koplje) zastave zászlórúd tiang bendera fánastöng pennone, asta della bandiera 旗ざお 깃대 vėliavos stiebas karoga masts tiang bendera vlaggenstokflaggstangmaszt دبيرغ لكړه pau da bandeira catarg de steag флагшток stožiar zastavni drog motka za zastavu flaggstång เสาธง bayrak direği, gönder 旗桿 фла...
34. A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
    countable, uncountable
35. A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
    countable, uncountable
36. An apron.
    UK, archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
37. An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.
    Internet, countable, uncountable
38. A groat; fourpence.
    UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The flag of France has three vertical stripes.”

“This will be used as a help message if the user passes in the --help flag, like so: […]”

“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.”

“A flag of P is a sequence (F₀, F₁, ..., Fₘ) of faces of P such that dim Fᵢ = i for each i and Fᵢ is a side of Fᵢ₊₁ for each i < m.[…]A regular polytope in X is a polytope P in X whose group of symmetries in <P> acts transitively on its flags.”

“We call P (combinatorially) regular if its automorphism group Γ(P) is transitive on its flags.”

“Roughly speaking, chiral polytopes have half as many possible automorphisms as have regular polytopes. More technically, the n-polytope P is chiral if it has two orbits of flags under its group Γ(P), with adjacent flags in different orbits.”

“At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.”

“Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.”

“Suppose you try a different tack, / And on the square you flash your flag?”

“set a death flag”

“raise the heroine's flags (in a galge)”

“[…] the orator pulled out a tremendous black doll, bought for a ‘flag’ (fourpence) of a retired rag-merchant, and dressed up in Oriental style.”

“[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?”

“And laden barges float By banks of myosote; And scented flag and golden flower-de-lys Delay the loitering boat.”

“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.”

CEFR level