different between flag vs pendant

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /flæ?/
• (North American also) IPA^(key): /fle??/
• Rhymes: -æ?, -e??

Etymology 1

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 *flak? (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“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 flagg (“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 flogar?n (“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.

Noun

flag (countable and uncountable, plural flags)

1. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
2. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
3. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
4. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
5. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
6. (computer science) 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.
7. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
8. (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
   • 1966, Barry J. Schiff, All about Flying: An Introduction to the World of Flying (page 72)

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

   • 1980, Paul Garrison, Flying VFR in marginal weather (page 139)

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

9. (Britain, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
10. (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.
    • 2002, Peter McMullen, Egon Schulte, Abstract Regular Polytopes, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications 92, page 31,

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

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

      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 ?(P), with adjacent flags in different orbits.

11. (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.

Synonyms

• (computer science: true-or-false value): Boolean
• (computer science: CLI notation): switch, option
• (geometry: sequence of faces of a polytope): dart

Holonyms

• (piece of cloth): bunting

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

1. To furnish or deck out with flags.
2. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
3. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.

   Please flag down a taxi for me.

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

   to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance

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

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

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

6. (computing) To signal (an event).

   The compiler flagged three errors.

7. (computing) To set a program variable to true.

   Flag the debug option before running the program.

8. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
   • 1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman

     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.

9. (sports) To penalize for an infraction.

10. (chess) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
11. (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.

Translations

See also

Etymology 2

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”).

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.

   His strength flagged toward the end of the race.

   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 2

     He now sees a spirit has been raised against him, and he only watches till it begin to flag.
2. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
   • 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh

     as loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast

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

   to flag the wings

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4. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
   • 1670, John Eachard, The Ground and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy

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

Translations

Etymology 3

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.

Noun

flag (plural flags)

1. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
   • ca. 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, sc. 3:

     [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.

   • 1611, King James Version, Job 8:11:

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

   • before 1899, Robert Seymour Bridges, There is a Hill:

     And laden barges float

     By banks of myosote;

     And scented flag and golden flower-de-lys

     Delay the loitering boat.

Derived terms

• sweet flag

Translations

Etymology 4

Probably of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; compare Icelandic flag.

Noun

flag (plural flags)

1. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
2. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
3. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To pave with flagstones.

   Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.

Translations

Etymology 5

Noun

flag (plural flags)

1. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
2. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
3. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
4. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value

References

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ???, from English flag.

Definitions

flag

1. (Internet slang) A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc., for example the words like "I will stop doing evil after this one last job" from a character, who usually would not survive the "job". Also figurative.

   ??flag  ?  s?wáng flag  ?  the words of a character which, as a pattern, usually follows the character's death

2. goal; resolution; statement of intent

   ??flag  ?  x?nnián flag  ?  New Year resolutions

   ?flag  ?  lì flag  ?  to set up a goal

   ??flag???  ?  T?de flag d?ole.  ?  He didn't achieve the goal.

   • ??????flag????????????????????????? [MSC, trad.]
     ??????flag????????????????????????? [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2020 April 11, "?????" (username), Weibo post

     H?ndu? tóngxué lìle flag yào h?oh?o bèik?o, rán'ér h?ode xuéxí f?ngf? néng q?dào shìbàng?ngbèi de xiàogu?. [Pinyin]

     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.

   • “??????”?flag?????? [MSC, trad.]
     “??????”?flag?????? [MSC, simp.]

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

     “zhè bèiz? bù d?g?ng” de flag jiù xi?n g?zhì ba. [Pinyin]

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

Danish

Etymology

From Dutch or English flag

Noun

flag n (singular definite flaget, plural indefinite flag)

1. flag (cloth)
2. flag (true-false variable)

Inflection

Verb

flag

1. imperative of flage

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English flag.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /fl??/
• Hyphenation: flag

Noun

flag m (plural flags, diminutive flagje n)

1. (computing) flag

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse flag, flaga, probably from Proto-Germanic *flak? (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“flat, broad, plain”). However, compare Proto-Germanic *plagg?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla??/
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

flag n (genitive singular flags, nominative plural flög)

1. area of ground stripped of turf

Declension

Related terms

• flaga

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From English flag.

Noun

flag m or f (in variation) (plural flags)

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

   Synonym: booleano

English

Alternative forms

• pendaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pendaunt , Middle French pendant, noun use of adjective.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?p?nd(?)nt/
• Homophone: pendent

Noun

pendant (plural pendants)

1. (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter. [from 14th c.]
2. A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]
3. The dangling part of an earring. [from 16th c.]
4. (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant. [from 15th c.]
5. (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.

   One vase is the pendant to the other vase.

6. (obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology

     Many […] have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions.

7. (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles. [15th-17th c.]
8. (obsolete) A pendulum.
   • 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises

     a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards

9. (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.

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10. A lamp hanging from the roof.
11. An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
12. A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• Pendant in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

Danish

Etymology

From French pendant (“counterpart”), from pendre (“to hang”), from Latin pendere (“to hang”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan?dan?/, [p????d???]

Noun

pendant c (singular definite pendanten, plural indefinite pendanter)

1. counterpart
2. match
3. fellow
4. companion

Inflection

Synonyms

• modstykke

Further reading

• “pendant” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.d??/
• Homophone: pendants

Adjective

pendant (feminine singular pendante, masculine plural pendants, feminine plural pendantes)

1. hanging

Noun

pendant m (plural pendants)

1. stone that dangles on earrings
2. match, counterpart

Descendants

• ? Danish: pendant
• ? German: Pendant
• ? Italian: pendant

Preposition

pendant

1. during, throughout, for the duration of

Derived terms

• pendant que

Verb

pendant

1. present participle of pendre

Further reading

• “pendant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French pendant. Doublet of pendente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pan?dan/

Noun

pendant m (invariable)

1. match (matching item)
2. pendant (dangling earing)

Further reading

• pendant in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

pendant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of pend?

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ndant/

Adjective

pendant (feminine singular pendant, plural pendant, not comparable)

1. definite (free from any doubt)
2. positive

Derived terms

• yn bendant (“definitely”)

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