Bag vs Bags - What's the difference?
bag | bags |
A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
(label) A handbag
A suitcase.
A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
One’s preference.
(label) An ugly woman.
(label) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
(label) First, second, or third base.
(label) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(label) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
A scrotum.
(label) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
To put into a bag.
To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
(label) To furnish or load with a bag.
* Dryden
To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
To laugh uncontrollably.
To criticise sarcastically.
(label) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To swell or hang down like a full bag.
To swell with arrogance.
To become pregnant.
(Australia, New Zealand) To reserve for oneself.
* 2006 , Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice ,
* 2007 , Debra Oswald. Getting Air ,
* 2008 , Kate Dellar-Evans, Best of Friends: The First Thirty Years of the Friendly Street Poets ,
* 2009 , J. Lodge, Black Mail ,
(uncountable) Eye circles.
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As nouns the difference between bag and bags
is that bag is a flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc while bags is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between bag and bags
is that bag is to put into a bag while bags is to reserve for oneself.bag
English
(wikipedia bag)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (flexible container) poke (obsolete), sack, tote * (handbag) handbag, purse (US) * (preference) cup of tea, thing * (ugly woman) dog, hag * (in mathematics) multisetHyponyms
* (flexible container) bindleVerb
(bagg)- (Chaucer)
Derived terms
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Etymology 1
FromAlternative forms
* baggsVerb
(es)page 81,
- So you were thrilled, and we picked out the mare for Harriet, and you bagsed the black, and I had the chestnut, and we all rode away one day.
page 66,
- Mum bagsed being the priestess who got to dangle Stone over the volcano by his ankles.
page 13,
- Battered armchairs and a sofa were bagsed first; they were more comfortable than the school chairs that could get hard.
page 316,
- ‘Hey, it?s my turn in the front,’ Kalista called as she realised her brother had bagsed the front seat.
