Flag vs Attenuate - What's the difference?
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A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
(nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
(nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
(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.
(computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
(British) An abbreviation for capture the flag.
To furnish or deck out with flags.
To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
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To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
To note, mark or point out for attention.
(computing) To signal (an event).
(computing) To set a program variable to true .
To weaken, become feeble.
* Jonathan Swift
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To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
* T. Moore
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
* Echard
Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus .
* before 1899 , Robert Seymour Bridges, There is a Hill :
A slice of turf; a sod.
A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
(geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
To lay down flagstones.
* Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.
A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
(music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
* 1874 , , Far From the Madding Crowd , ch. 40:
To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
* 1899 , , His New Mittens , ch. 4:
* 1906 , , The Malefactor , ch. 1:
To weaken.
* Coleridge
* Sir F. Palgrave
To rarefy.
* 1901 , , The First Men in the Moon , ch. 23:
(medicine) To reduce the virulence of a bacteria or virus.
(electronics) To reduce the amplitude of an electrical signal.
(botany, of leaves) Gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.
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As verbs the difference between flag and attenuate
is that flag is to furnish or deck out with flags while attenuate is to reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.As a noun flag
is a piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.As an adjective attenuate is
gradually tapering into a petiole-like extension toward the base.flag
English
(commons)Etymology 1
From (etyl) flag, . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* Boolean * switchDerived terms
* antiflag * false flag * flagkini * freak flag * raise a flag * show the flag * white flagVerb
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- Please flag down a taxi for me.
- to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance
- I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.
- Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate.
- The compiler flagged three errors.
- Flag the debug option before running the program.
See also
* banner * colour * ensign * jack * pennant * standard * vexillologyVerb
(flagg)- His strength flagged toward the end of the race.
- The pleasures of the town begin to flag .
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- as loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast
- to flag the wings
- (Prior)
- Nothing so flags the spirits.
Etymology 3
Of uncertain origin; compare Danish .Noun
(en noun)- And laden barges float
- By banks of myosote;
- And scented flag and golden flower-de-lys
- Delay the loitering boat.
Derived terms
* sweet flagEtymology 4
Probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Icelandic flagNoun
(en noun)Verb
(flagg)Etymology 5
Noun
(en noun)attenuate
English
Verb
(attenuat)- A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.
- Clumps of attenuated turkeys were suspended here and there.
- Lovell, wan and hollow-eyed, his arm in a sling, his once burly frame gaunt and attenuated with disease, nodded.
- The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts.
- We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagreness.
- "It speedily became apparent that the entire strangeness of our circumstances and surroundings—great loss of weight, attenuated but highly oxygenated air, consequent exaggeration of the results of muscular effort, rapid development of weird plants from obscure spores, lurid sky—was exciting my companion unduly."