different between tagger vs agger

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tæ??(?)/
• Rhymes: -æ??(?)

Etymology 1

tag +? -er

Noun

tagger (plural taggers)

1. One who or that which tags.
   1. The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
      • 1989, Francis Edward Abernethy, Texas Toys and Games (page 111)

        The teacher then calls on each one of the tagged to identify his tagger. If a student cannot guess correctly, he must sit down.

   2. A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
   3. (computing theory) A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to songs in a music collection.
2. A device for removing taglocks from sheep.

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3. That which is pointed like a tag.
   • 1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque

     hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers

Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Variant of tadger?”)

Noun

tagger (plural taggers)

1. (slang) The penis.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tagger (plural taggers)

1. (in the plural) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.

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Anagrams

• garget

French

Alternative forms

• taguer

Etymology

From English tag

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.?e/

Verb

tagger

1. (graffiti) to tag
2. to tag (label)

   tagger quelqu'un sur Facebook - tag someone on Facebook

Conjugation

English

Etymology

From Middle English agger (“heap; pile”), from Latin agger (“rubble; mound; rampart”), from ad- + gerere (“to carry, to bring”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æd??(r)

Noun

agger (plural aggers)

1. A high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again.
2. A low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again.
3. (historical) In ancient Roman construction, an earthwork; a mound or raised work.

Related terms

• agger nasi

Anagrams

• Gager, Garge, Grega, eggar, gager, regag

Latin

Etymology

If not directly from agger?, from its root.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?.?er/, [?ä???r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ad.d??er/, [??d????r]

Noun

agger m (genitive aggeris); third declension

1. rampart, bulwark (or the materials used to make one)
2. causeway, pier, dam, dyke

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• agger?

Descendants

• Italian: argine
• Piedmontese: àrgin
• Spanish: arce, arcén
• Venetian: àrzare, àrxen

References

• agger in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• agger in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• agger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• agger in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• agger in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• agger in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin