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say it: tag
tag is a noun and verb meaning "a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.". It carries 10 recorded senses.
a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
“semantic tags were attached in order to identify different meanings of the word”
a small piece of cloth or paper
a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
(sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
baseball · tag
provide with a name or nickname
go after with the intent to catch
“The policeman chased the mugger down the alley”
“the dog chased the rabbit”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tag come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.