flag
/flæɡ/ verb C2- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc. · Please flag down a taxi for me.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals. · to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance
- 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.
- To signal (an event). · The compiler flagged three errors.
- To set a program variable to true. · Flag the debug option before running the program.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
He/she/it flags · Past flagged · Past participle flagged · -ing form flagging
Verb forms
- Base form
- flag
- He/she/it
- flags
- Past
- flagged
- Past participle
- flagged
- -ing form
- flagging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
In a creek lay a little sloop, with a narrow keel and high masts, bearing on its flag the Monte Cristo arms which were a mountain or, on a sea azure, with a cross gules in chief which might be an allusion to his name that recalled Calvary, the mount rendered by our Lord’s passion more precious than gold, and to the degrading cross which his blood had rendered holy; or it might be some personal remembrance of suffering and regeneration buried in the night of this mysterious personage’s past life.
As the conversation began to flag, the Thief yawned terribly and at the same time howled like a wolf.
I guess when a man has had dangers in his life—and I’ve had more than most in my time—there is a kind of sixth sense that waves the red flag.
This was that the scholars of Avonlea school should get up a concert and hold it in the hall on Christmas Night, for the laudable purpose of helping to pay for a schoolhouse flag.
Other matches
- flag A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emble... A1
- flag To pave with flagstones. C2
- flag To weaken, become feeble. C2
- flag A group of feathers on the lower part of the le... C2
- flag A slice of turf C2
- flag Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves,... C2
- flag away To abandon
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