different between tag vs size

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?g, IPA^(key): /tæ?/
• (North American also) IPA^(key): /te??/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

tag (plural tags)

1. A small label.
2. A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it".
3. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
4. A type of cardboard.
5. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
   • 2011, Scape Martinez, Graff 2: Next Level Graffiti Techniques (page 124)

     There is a hierarchy of sorts: a throw-up can go over a tag, a piece over a throw-up, and a burner over a piece.

6. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
7. (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").

   Synonyms: dialogue tag, speech tag, tag line

   • (Can we date this quote?),
   • (Can we date this quote?)
   • (Can we date this quote?)
8. (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
9. (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.

   Antonym: cold open

   • 2006, Stephen V. Duncan, A Guide to Screenwriting Success (page 300)

     Often, the tag punctuates the "we're all in this together" theme and is topped with a laugh.

10. (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).

11. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."

12. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

14. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.

15. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
16. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
17. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
18. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
19. A sheep in its first year.
20. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
21. (slang) A person's name.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• tagball
• tagless
• tag question

See also

(children's game to avoid being "it"):

• chasey
• dodgeball
• paintball

Translations

Verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

1. (transitive) To label (something).
2. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
3. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.

   Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep.

4. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.

   He really tagged that ball.

5. (transitive, vulgar slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)

   Steve is dying to tag Angie from chemistry class.

6. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.

   He tagged the runner for the out.

7. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

   I am tagging my music files by artist and genre.

8. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
   • 1906, O. Henry, By Courier

     A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him tagged a boy carrying a suit-case.

9. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
10. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
    • His courteous host […]
      Tags every sentence with some fawning word.

11. To fasten; to attach.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bolingbroke to this entry?)

Antonyms

• (computing): untag

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic ???? (“crown”). Doublet of taj.

Noun

tag (plural tagin)

1. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

References

• tag at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ATG, GTA, TGA, gat

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• tage (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German tag, tac, from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. Cognate with German Tag, English day.

Noun

tag m (plural taaghe)

1. (Sette Comuni) day

Declension

Related terms

• gabüarttag

References

• “tag” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eg??- (“to burn”).

Noun

tag

1. day
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Tag. Dies.

Derived terms

• knauen tag

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”), from Proto-Germanic *þak?, cognate with Swedish tak, English thack, thatch, German Dach, Dutch dak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta???/, [?t?æ?(j)]

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)

1. roof

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• tække

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tak (“hold, grasp”), cognate with Norwegian tak, Swedish tag. Derived from the verb taka (Danish tage).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta(??)?/, [?t?æ?(j)], [?t??w]

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)

1. hold, grasp, grip
2. stroke (with an oar or with the armes in the water)
3. handling, control

Inflection

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (since 1985).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?/, [?t?æ??]

Noun

tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)

1. tag (signature of a graffiti artist)
2. (computing) tag (markup in an electronic file)

Inflection

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta(??)/, [?t?æ(?)]

Verb

tag

1. imperative of tage

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

Noun

tag n (plural tags, diminutive tagje n)

1. tag

Finnish

Noun

tag

1. Alternative form of tagi

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

tag m (plural tags)

1. tag

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

tag

1. singular imperative of tagen

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??]
• Hyphenation: tag
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

tag (plural tagok)

2. member
3. Synonym of végtag (“limb”)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tag (“piece of markup”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??]
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

tag (plural tagek)

2. (computing) tag (a piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)

Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (“a piece of graffiti”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??]
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

tag (plural tagek)

2. tag (graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist)

Declension

References

Further reading

• tag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Meriam

Noun

tag

1. arm, hand

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• tac, dach (northern)

Etymology

From Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæ? and Old Norse dagr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?eg??- (“to burn”).

Noun

tag m

1. day
2. age, lifetime
3. (politics) convention, congress
4. (in a religious context) judgement day

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Tag

  Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

  Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

  Swabian: Dag

• Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

  Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

  Mòcheno: ta

  Udinese: tach, ti

• Central Franconian: Daach

  Hunsrik: Daagh, taach

• East Central German:

  Upper Saxon: Dag

• German: Tag

  Esperanto: tago

• Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
• Rhine Franconian: Tach

  Pennsylvania German: Daag

• Vilamovian: taog
• Yiddish: ????? (tog)

References

Old High German

Alternative forms

• tac, tak, dac, *dag (northern)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæ?, Old Norse dagr, Old Dutch and Old Saxon dag, Old High German tag, Gothic ???????????????? (dags). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?eg??- (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?/, /ta?/

Noun

tag m (plural taga)

1. day

   tag after tage

   day after day

Declension

Derived terms

• tagalih
  • tagalihhen
  • tagalihhes
  • tagalihhida
• ziestag

Descendants

• Middle High German: tag, tac, dach
  • Alemannic German: Tag

    Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)

    Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg

    Swabian: Dag

  • Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch

    Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage

    Mòcheno: ta

    Udinese: tach, ti

  • Central Franconian: Daach

    Hunsrik: Daagh, taach

  • East Central German:

    Upper Saxon: Dag

  • German: Tag

    Esperanto: tago

  • Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
  • Rhine Franconian: Tach

    Pennsylvania German: Daag

  • Vilamovian: taog
  • Yiddish: ????? (tog)

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Polish

Etymology

From English tag, from Middle English tagge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tak/
• Homophone: tak

Noun

tag m inan

1. (computing) tag (piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)

   Synonym: znacznik

Declension

Further reading

• tag in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse tak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???/

Noun

tag n

1. a grip; a hold (of something)

   Tappa inte taget

   Don’t lose your grip

   Släpp inte taget

   Don’t let go

2. a stroke (with an oar; in swimming)

   Ett tag till med åran

   One more stroke with the oar

3. a while, a moment, a minute, sec, second, tic

   Ett litet tag

   A little while, a second

Declension

Derived terms

• få tag i
• hårda tag
• i första taget
• vara i tagen

Verb

tag

1. imperative of taga.

Alternative forms

• ta

Anagrams

• ATG

Welsh

Etymology

Back-formation from tagu (“to strangle, to choke”).

Noun

tag m (plural tagau or tagion)

1. choking, suffocation

Derived terms

• llindag (“suffocation; snare; dodder; thrush”)
• tagaradr (“restharrow”)
• tagell (“gill; jowl”)
• tagfa (“choking, throttling; bottleneck”)
• taglys (“bindweed”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “tag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tak, by analogy with taga (“to take”). Also rendered as tak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?????], [t?á??], [t????]

  Rhymes: -á??

Noun

tag n (definite singular tagjä, dative tagjän)

1. Grip, hold.
2. Advantage.

Alternative forms

• tak

Etymology 2

From Old Norse taug, tog, from Proto-Germanic *taug?, *tug?.

Noun

tag n (definite singular tagjä, dative tagjän)

1. A rope.

Synonyms

• raip

Etymology 3

Verb

tag

1. singular present of taga
2. singular imperative of taga

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z
• Homophones: psis, sighs

Etymology 1

From Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”). Displaced native Middle English grete, grette (“size”) (from Old English gr?etu, gr?tu (“size, greatness”)).

Noun

size (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) An assize. [from 14th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 560:

     I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size, that no one is above the law.

2. (obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. [14th-18th c.]
3. (obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. [15th-17th c.]
4. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. [from 15th c.]

5. (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance. [15th c.]
6. A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing. [from 16th c.]

7. (graph theory) A number of edges in a graph. [from 20th c.]
8. (figuratively, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
   • 1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists

     men of a less size and quality

   • 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman

     the middle or lower size of people

9. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

10. (computing) file size

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:size

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Chinese:
  • ? Cantonese: size (saai1 si2)
• ? Irish: saghas
• ? Japanese: ??? (saizu)
• ? Korean: ??? (saijeu)

Translations

Verb

size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)

1. (transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.

   • a statute […] to size weights, and measures

2. (transitive) To classify or arrange by size.
   1. (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
   2. (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
3. (transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
4. (intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.
   • after 1633 (first published), John Donne, Farewell to Love

     Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.

5. (Britain, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

   • blood-sized field

Hyponyms

• (to adjust size): resize

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English syse, of unclear origin; related to Old Italian sisa (“a glue used by painters”), perhaps ultimately related to size / syse (“amount”), or perhaps shortened from assisa, from assiso (“to make to sit, to seat, to place”)

Noun

size (plural sizes)

2. A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
3. Wallpaper paste.
4. The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
5. Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.

Translations

Verb

size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)

1. (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.

Translations

References

See also

• Size in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Chinese

Alternative forms

• ??, ??

Etymology

Borrowed from English size.

Pronunciation

Noun

size

1. (Cantonese) size

   • ???????????????size????????????????????????????????size? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ???????????????size????????????????????????????????size? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2015, ???, ??? ???, ?????, issue 40, page 79

     jau⁵ jat¹ go³ so⁴ zai² zeng⁶ jan⁴ sin¹ jung⁶ sing^4-2 dok⁶ zi⁶ gei² goek³ dik¹ saai¹ si², jau⁵ jat¹ jat⁶ soeng² maai⁵ haai⁴, bat¹ gwo³ heoi³ dou³ si⁵ zaap⁶ sin¹ faat³ jin⁶ zi⁶ gei² mou⁵ daai³ tiu⁴ sing^4-2, so² ji⁵ m⁴ zi¹ maai⁵ haai⁴ maai⁵ me¹ saai¹ si². [Jyutping]

     There was a stupid guy from Zheng who used only a string to measure the size of his feet; one day, he wanted to buy shoes, but only when he got to the market did he realize that he didn't bring his string, so he didn't know what shoe size to buy.

   • ??????????????????size??? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ???????????????“??size??” [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2016, Jerald Li, ??????size??15?????size??

     ging¹ soeng⁴ zoi⁶ mong⁵ soeng⁶ gin³ dou^3-2 jau⁵ jan⁴ man⁶ sam⁶ mo¹ bo¹ haai⁴ jing¹ “maai⁵ me¹ saai¹ si² hou²?” [Jyutping]

     I always see people online asking something like "What size should I buy?" for sneakers

   • ?????size???????? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ?????size???????? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2016, ??? (Daniel Chong), ????CEO, page 104

     daai³ zyu⁶ deoi³ m⁴ ngaam¹ saai¹ si² ge³ baak⁶ sik¹ lou⁴ gung¹ sau² tou³ zai² [Jyutping]

     wearing white workers' gloves of the wrong size

Synonyms

• ?? (ch?cùn)

Turkish

Pronoun

size

1. dative of siz (you – plural or polite)

Turkmen

Noun

size

1. dative plural of siz