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Meaning flag meaning

What does flag mean?
Definitions in simple English

flag Noun

— A flag is a piece of cloth, usually marked with a colourful symbol or sign. — A flag flown by a ship is to show the presence on board of the admiral (the leader of a group of ships); the admiral himself; or his flagship. — The use of a flag, especially to show the start of a race or other event. Be ready to start running immediately at the flag. — On a computer, a flag is a variable or place in the computer's memory that keeps a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, usually either recording the fact that a certain event has happened or asking for a certain action to happen if it's an action that doesn't always happen.

flag Verb

— If you mark with a flag, it shows the importance of something. — (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a car that's driving past, etc. Please flag a taxi down for me. — When a person flags, the person becomes weak, tired or feeble. His strength flagged toward the end of the race. — To signal or mark something that happened. The compiler flagged three errors. — To set the value of a variable in a computer program to true. Flag the debug option before running the program.

flag

— noun emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design — noun (= masthead) a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc — verb provide with a flag Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately — verb communicate or signal with a flag — noun (= iris) plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals — noun a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device — noun stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones — noun a conspicuously marked or shaped tail — verb decorate with flags the building was flagged for the holiday — noun (= pin) flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green — verb (= ease up) become less intense — verb (= droop) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

Synonyms flag synonyms

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flag English » English

banner standard ensign pennant droop mark colours streamer iris wither flagstone slacken signal pennon label fade colors weaken swag slacken off sign sag pin masthead languish fleur-de-lis ease up ease off decline blanket badge wilt wave wane token tag sword lily signal flag sentinel rare marker gonfalon flagship emblem deteriorate brand blip attribute wrinkle wizen

Topics flag topics

What do people use flag to talk about?
Person Body condition

Tired
Language and thought Communication

Sign, symbol
Social behavior

Government
Social behavior Government Region

Country
Person Life Die

Funeral
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by water

Boat

Conjugation flag conjugation

How do you conjugate flag?

flag · verb

Examples flag examples

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Simple sentences

This flag is very beautiful.
Please change the flag.
The flag of the Czech Republic is almost the same as that of the Philippines.
This is a flag.
The French flag is blue, white and red.
Ned held the flag erect.
Every country has its national flag.
It raises a red flag for businessmen.
There was a flag at the top of the pole.
The ship was flying the American flag.
The national flag of the USA is called the Stars and Stripes.
He put up a flag.
They hung out the flag for the Queen's visit.
What color is the far right ring on the Olympic flag?
This flag is very pretty.
The flag is up.
Keep sight of the flag.
Everybody started waving his flag.
This is the flag of Japan.
Each team carried their flag into the stadium for the finals.
A red and white flag was flying in the wind.

Movie subtitles

Nobody thought to raise a red flag when they saw a body in a fridge?
There's a flag on the gay.
Suddenly, the flag is hoisted.
And proudly waving the red flag of victory, without a single shot, the rebellious battleship passed through the rows of the squadron.
The semaphore flag signals VARIABLE wind.
How many stars in the flag?
Take the flag down.
IF YOU'D STARTED THE REVOLUTION AS I PLANNED. I COULD'VE STEPPED IN AND PLACED FREEDONIA UNDER THE SYLVANIAN FLAG.
And when we can no longer hold. the flag that we tore from nothing. you must hold it firmly in your fists!
Then drum will join drum. flag will join flag. group will join group, Gau to Gau. and after that, this earlier divided people. will follow these sacred columns of the Nation.
We heard your bell and saw your flag.
The starter has his flag up, and it looks like.
They're coming up to the start this time, and the starter has his flag raised.
Let's leave for Africa, for the Regency of Algiers over which the French flag now flies.
France's flag is wide and can shelter all those who seek refuge and protection.
The flag squadron is moving on us.
The flag indicates that praying for the health of the yurta's owner are a lama a learned monk-healer and a collector of taxes for the monastery.
Now, uh, how many stars in the flag?
If you'd started the revolution as I planned, I could have stepped in and placed Freedonia under the Sylvanian flag.
She flies the French flag.
Have we an English battle flag on board, Hagthorpe?
We have every manner of battle flag, including a lady's purple petticoat.
Hoist the French flag, Hagthorpe.
Strike that French flag and hoist our own colors.
When you see me cut down that French flag, drop down.
If my terms are acceptable, instruct your colonel to raise the white flag.
That's strange, the white flag's still flying.
Because of the danger of war which has always existed, unconditionally raise the white flag and present our country to them, surrendering totally.
Make our ancestors flag rise again remembering the glorious days of Michael the Brave and Stephen the Great.
The soldier Grigore Ioan takes the Turkish flag.
Consigning the flag.
Our flag must be raised!
It's usually a flag, isn't it?
What's all this red flag-waving?
WOMEN HAVE A FLAG TO FLY AS WELL AS MEN, MR. BROWN.
As blue as the Bonnie Blue flag.
What makes the flag on the mast to wave?

News and current affairs

England would be left to wave its flag of St. George over Wales and Northern Ireland, a rather sour prospect.
Hamas is now widely seen as the true representative of Palestinian national ambitions, and is set to unite the Palestinians under its flag.
Hazare, egged on by a flag-waving and indignant urban middle class and sensation-seeking media, tries mightily to claim Mahatma Gandhi's mantle; he is good at mimicking Gandhi's piety, but lacks his root wisdom.
The unspeakable human suffering that they inflict is the same whatever flag they may bear.
Consider, for example, the relationship between a national aviation hub and a country's flag carrier.
Governments and flag carriers in the Middle East make no excuses for distorting competition in order to establish flight hubs that guarantee vital direct connections into the country.
But then fans of the Honduras team were set upon, and even worse, the Honduran national anthem was insulted, and the country's white and blue flag defiled.
But Israel's belief that one more assassination will cause the Palestinians to crumble, and the Palestinian belief that one more suicide attack will cause the Israelis to raise the white flag have led both sides to a dead end.
For them, Hinduism is a flag, not a doctrine.
Since Iranian leaders daily proclaim their desire to wipe Israel off the map and to fight the US (Ahmadinejad stepped on a picture of an American flag on his way to vote), the risk of confrontation has increased.
The Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, which led the attack on Pearl Harbor, flew the battle flag flown by the Mikasa, Admiral Togo's ship when he attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur.
In fact, some bases - notably, Misawa Air Base north of Tokyo - already fly Japan's flag, while hosting American units.
A poster shows three white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag.
If they succeed, perhaps they should add a black border around the proud Islamic green of their flag - the black not of mourning, but of justice.
At the same time, the Palestinians become objects of romanticized identifications - one of the leaders of the NAFTHE motion was seen, prior to a meeting, draped in a Palestinian flag - and unwitting condescension.
There was little of the rampant jingoism, get-them-at-all-costs bloodlust, constant speechifying, and flag-waving that followed the 2001 attacks.
Many carried the forbidden Tibetan national flag, suggesting that they think of Tibet as a separate country in the past, and in about 20 incidents government offices were burned down.
Desecrating a shrine, defacing a cross, or, in the US, burning a flag, is an aggressive and insulting act, one that causes real pain for believers.
We embraced each other under the blue flag with its 12 yellow stars.
Instead, he rose like the flag of the trivial in a global mass culture - a sign associated with consumer tastes in fashion, music, and drugs.
Greece vehemently opposed its tiny northern neighbor - with only two million inhabitants - using the name Macedonia and symbols from the days of Alexander the Great in its flag and crest.
For several weeks this summer, the stadiums in Austria and Switzerland, not to mention the streets of European capitals, from Madrid to Moscow, were given to an orgy of flag-waving, anthem-singing, drum-beating patriotism.
A Japanese flag was burned outside the foreign students' dorm.

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