flag
Definitions
- A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol
- A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- A slice of turf; a sod.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- 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
- A plant, such as an iris or cattail, that has long sword-shaped leaves.
- 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.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- To lose vigor or strength; weaken or diminish: The conversation flagged.
- A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship
- A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- A flagstone.
- A signal flag
- A signal flag.
- A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- To pave with slabs of flagstone.
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- any of various plants with long, sword-shaped leaves, as the sweet flag.
- 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.
- Yellow cloth thrown in the air by an official to signal a violation.
- In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- Fabric used especially as a symbol:banderole, banner, banneret, color (used in plural), ensign, jack, oriflamme, pennant, pennon, standard, streamer.
- A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- To communicate by means of such devices as lights or signs:semaphore, signal.
- The game of capture the flag.
- 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
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- An apron.
- 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.
- A groat; fourpence.
Equivalents
86 more languages
Afrikaansvlag
አማርኛባንዴራ
Azərbaycan dilibayraq
Беларускаясцяг
བོད་སྐད།དར་ཆ
Bosanskialembajrakbanderabarjakbrathorugvakorugvalosalošaslabistijegtutazastavaбарјакзаставакоругваперуникастегстијегтухоругва
Eestilipp
Euskarabandera
Suomiasettaabinäärimuuttujahiipuailmoittaakeltakurjenmiekkakivetäkivilaattakurjenmiekkakytkinlaatoittaalippuliputtaaliputusmerkinantolippumerkitäosoittaarangaistareputtaaviitataviittilöidävipu
ગુજરાતીધ્વજ
Hausatuta
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻihae
Hrvatskialembajrakbanderabarjakbrathorugvakorugvalošalosaslabistijegtutazastavaбарјакзаставакоругваперуникастегстијегтухоругва
ភាសាខ្មែរទង់
Кыргызчатуу
Latinavexillum
LëtzebuergeschFändel
Lietuviųvėliava
Te Reo Māorihaki
Македонскизнаме
Bahasa Melayubendera
Maltibandiera
မြန်မာအလံ
नेपालीझण्डा
Nederlands(het) vlaggenaanhoudenaanzettenbetegelengele lismarkerenmeldenoptieplaveiensignaalvlagsignalerentegelvaandelverzwakkenvlagwenken
ଓଡ଼ିଆପତାକା
ਪੰਜਾਬੀਝੰਡਾ
Slovenčinazástava
Slovenščinazastava
Shqipflamur
Српскиalembajrakbanderabarjakbrathorugvakorugvalošalosaslabistijegtutazastavaбарјакзаставакоругваперуникастегстијегтухоругва
Kiswahilibendera
தமிழ்கொடி
Тоҷикӣпарчам
Türkmençebaýdak
Українськабрукувативистила́тизменшуватизме́ншуватисязнаменоірискорогваплитапоникнутипрапорпрапорецьпроклада́тисла́бшатистягтротуархоругваштандарт
isiXhosaiflegi
Yorùbáasia
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
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free