"flag" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /flæɡ/ [US, UK] Audio: en-us-flag.ogg [US] Forms: flag [singular], flags [plural]
Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A flag is a piece of cloth, usually marked with a colourful symbol or sign.
    Sense id: simple-flag-en-noun-8mYNBiFD
  2. 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.
    Sense id: simple-flag-en-noun-sBkQEx8q
  3. The use of a flag, especially to show the start of a race or other event.
    Sense id: simple-flag-en-noun-b13pmutu
  4. 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.
    Sense id: simple-flag-en-noun-PaQHBozj
  5. In a command line interface (a place on a computer screen for people to type commands for a computer to do), a sign telling the computer to do something it does only sometimes, or a sign changing in some other way the action of the command being typed.
    Sense id: simple-flag-en-noun-NdYhsjk4

Verb [English]

IPA: /flæɡ/ [US, UK] Audio: en-us-flag.ogg [US] Forms: flag [canonical], flags [third-person, singular], flagged [past], flagged [past, participle], flagging [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb|flag|g}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you mark with a flag, it shows the importance of something.
    Sense id: simple-flag-en-verb-AMs0KEe4
  2. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a car that's driving past, etc.
    Sense id: simple-flag-en-verb-xYqaq1IL
  3. When a person flags, the person becomes weak, tired or feeble.
    Sense id: simple-flag-en-verb-p81Xmsft
  4. To signal or mark something that happened.
    Sense id: simple-flag-en-verb-TcyqzvRN
  5. To set the value of a variable in a computer program to true.
    Sense id: simple-flag-en-verb-2YdELSlA
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