flag

the words of a character which, as a pattern, usually precede the character's death

死亡flag

新年flag

立flag

他的flag倒了。

Many students stated there resolution to study hard for the test, and a good way to study can yield twice the result with half the effort.

2020 April 11, "雅思中国网" (username), Weibo post

Hěnduō tóngxué lìle flag yào hǎohǎo bèikǎo, rán'ér hǎode xuéxí fāngfǎ néng qǐdào shìbàngōngbèi de xiàoguǒ.

很多同學立了flag要好好備考，然而好的學習方法能起到事半功倍的效果。

很多同学立了flag要好好备考，然而好的学习方法能起到事半功倍的效果。

Put aside for now the resolution to "not get employed forever".

2020 April 11, The Beijing News, “Internet Celebrity Thief to be Released: Put Aside For Now the Resolution to "Not Get Employed Forever"”

“zhè bèizǐ bù dǎgōng” de flag jiù xiān gēzhì ba.

“這輩子不打工”的flag就先擱置吧。

“这辈子不打工”的flag就先搁置吧。

Borrowed from Japanese フラグ (furagu), from English flag.


flag

head

flag n (singular definite flaget, plural indefinite flag)

flaget (definite singular)
flag (indefinite plural)
flag (indefinite nominative singular)
flaget (definite nominative singular)
flag (indefinite nominative plural)
flagene (definite nominative plural)
flags (genitive indefinite singular)
flagets (definite genitive singular)
flags (genitive indefinite plural)
flagenes (definite genitive plural)


flag

nl-noun

flag m (plural flags, diminutive flagje n)

flags (plural)
flagje (diminutive neuter)


flag

A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.

The flag of France has three vertical stripes.

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.

(nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.

(nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.

The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.

(computer science) 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.

This will be used as a help message if the user passes in the --help flag, like so: […]

2021, Angel Sola Orbaiceta, Hardcore Programming for Mechanical Engineers, pages 19–2:

(computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.

I was shooting an IFR approach down the San Francisco slot, when all of a sudden the ILS flag popped up.

1966, Barry J. Schiff, All about Flying: An Introduction to the World of Flying, page 72:

[…] and then the OFF flag popped up and the needle went dead.

1980, Paul Garrison, Flying VFR in marginal weather, page 139:

(aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.

(British, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.

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.

1994, John Ratcliffe, Foundations of Hyperbolic Manifolds, page 230:

We call P (combinatorially) regular if its automorphism group Γ(P) is transitive on its flags.

2002, Peter McMullen, Egon Schulte, Abstract Regular Polytopes, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications 92, page 31:

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.

2006, Peter McMullen, Egon Schulte, “Regular and Chiral Polytopes in Low Dimensions”, in Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, Chandler Davis, Erich W. Ellers, editors, The Coxeter Legacy: Reflections and Projections, page 91:

(geometry) 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.

(mathematics, linear algebra) 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.

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.

1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:

Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.

2012, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 86:

(television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.

Suppose you try a different tack, / And on the square you flash your flag?

1887, William Ernest Henley, Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves:

set a death flag

raise the heroine's flags (in a galge)

(Internet slang, ACG) 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.

en-noun

flag (countable and uncountable, plural flags)

быракъ

piece of cloth or often its representation

senyera

this generally assumed to be the Catalan flag

admiralsflag

nautical: flag showing the presence of an admiral

о́пция

computer science: notation for optional behaviour

lippu

geometry: sequence of faces of a polytope

lippu

linear algebra: sequence of subspaces of a vector space

From Middle English flag, flagge (“flag”), further etymology uncertain. Perhaps from or related to early Middle English flage (name for a baby's garment) and Old English flagg, flacg (“cataplasm, poultice, plaster”). Or, perhaps ultimately imitative, or otherwise drawn from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), referring to the shape.
Germanic cognates include Saterland Frisian Flaage (“flag”), West Frisian flagge (“flag”), Dutch vlag (“flag”), German Flagge (“flag”), Swedish flagga (“flag”), Danish flag (“flag, ship's flag”). Compare also Middle English flacken (“to flutter, palpitate”), Swedish dialectal flage (“to flutter in the wind”), Old Norse flögra (“to flap about”). Akin to Old High German flogarōn (“to flutter”), Old High German flogezen (“to flutter, flicker”), Middle English flakeren (“to move quickly to and fro”), Old English flacor (“fluttering, flying”). More at flack, flacker.

onomatopoeic

imitative


flag

Walcott was, briefly, awarded a penalty when he was upended in the box but referee Phil Dowd reversed his decision because Bendtner had been flagged offside.

2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:

To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.

Please flag down a taxi for me.

(often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.

to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance

To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.

I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.

Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate.

(often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.

The compiler flagged three errors.

Flag the debug option before running the program.

(computing) To set a program variable to true.

This method of hunting, however, is not so much practised now as formerly, as the antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag.

1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman:

To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.

The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Mark Dvoretsky (2014) For Friends & Colleagues, volume 1, →ISBN: “Indeed, I usually spent an hour to an hour and a half on my game, never found myself in time pressure, never once flagged in my entire life, except in blitz games, of course.”

(chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.

White was winning positionally, but Black managed to flag him and win.

(chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.

(firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.

After he flagged Algebra, Mike was ineligible for the football team.

During estrus, most bitches will flirt with males by backing up to them, flagging their tails in the males’ faces, urinating frequently, and generally acting seductive.

1996, The Complete Book of Dog Breeding, page 9:

She will avert her tail to the side (flagging), standing still when the male mounts.

2011 January 3, Pete Haswell, “Life and Behaviour of Wolves”, in Wolf Print:

(biology) In female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.

en-verb

flag (third-person singular simple present flags, present participle flagging, simple past and past participle flagged)

flags (present singular third-person)
flagging (participle present)
flagged (participle past)
flagged (past)

liputtaa

to convey a message by means of flag signals

merkitä

to note, mark or point out for attention

aanzetten

computing: to set a programming variable to true

houkutella lipulla

to decoy by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc.

osoittaa

firearms: to point at a person or object one does not intend to fire on

onomatopoeic

imitative


flag

His strength flagged toward the end of the race.

He now sees a spirit has been raised against him, and he only watches till it begin to flag.

1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 2:

About half way to Wamphray, they met Mitchell's engine. Her speed was flagging badly. Steam was low, and the fire nearly out.

1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54:

The sides took it in turns to err and excite before Newcastle flagged and Arsenal signalled their top-four credentials by blowing the visitors away.

2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian:

(intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.

as loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast

To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

The Thousand Loves , that arm thy potent Eye , Must drop their Quivers , flag their Wings

1709, Mat[thew] Prior, “An Ode”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.

there is nothing that flags the Spirits, disorders the Blood, and enfeebles the whole Body of Man, as intense Studies.

1670, John Eachard, The Ground and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy:

To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.

Perhaps from a variant of flack (“to hang loose”), from Middle English flacken; or perhaps from Old Norse. Compare Middle Dutch flaggheren, vlaggheren (“to droop, flag”).


flag

[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.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 8:11:

And laden barges float
By banks of myosote;
And scented flag and golden flower-de-lys
Delay the loitering boat.

before 1899, Robert Seymour Bridges, There is a Hill

Iris pseudacorus
Iris pseudacorus#Translingual

Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.

From Middle English flagge, of uncertain origin, perhaps from North Germanic; compare Danish flæg (“yellow iris”). Or, possibly from sense 1, referring to its motion in the wind. Compare also Dutch vlag.


flag

(obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.

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.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 60:

A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.

(geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

From Middle English flag, flagge, probably of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; compare Icelandic flag.


flag

Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.


flag

A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.

(music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value


flag

is-noun

flag n (genitive singular flags, nominative plural flög)

flags (genitive singular)
flög (nominative plural)
flag (indefinite nominative singular)
flagið (definite nominative singular)
flög (indefinite nominative plural)
flögin (definite nominative plural)
flag (accusative indefinite singular)
flagið (accusative definite singular)
flög (accusative indefinite plural)
flögin (accusative definite plural)
flagi (dative indefinite singular)
flaginu (dative definite singular)
flögum (dative indefinite plural)
flögunum (dative definite plural)
flags (genitive indefinite singular)
flagsins (definite genitive singular)
flaga (genitive indefinite plural)
flaganna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse flag, flaga, probably from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). However, compare Proto-Germanic *plaggą.


flag

Cognate with English flag, Dutch vlag, German Flagge.


flag

(programming) flag (true-or-false variable)