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Flag can be a verb or a noun.
flag used as a verb:
- 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 note, mark or point out for attention.
"I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this." - 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 weaken, become feeble.
"His strength flagged toward the end of the race." - To lay down flagstones.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
flag used as a noun:
- A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- A signal flag.
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- A variable or memory location that stores a 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.
- In a command line interface, a notation requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- An abbreviation for capture the flag.
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- A slice of turf; a sod.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is flag?
- Verb usage: Please flag down a taxi for me.
- Verb usage: I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.
- Verb usage: The compiler flagged three errors.
- Verb usage: Flag the debug option before running the program.
- Verb usage: His strength flagged toward the end of the race.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of flag are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of flag, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
