Tag vs Effect - What's the difference?

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Tag is a related term of effect.

As an abbreviation tag

is .

As a noun effect is

the result or outcome of a cause see below .

As a verb effect is

to make or bring about; to implement.

tag

English

(wikipedia tag)

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)

A small label.

A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the others, who then becomes "it".

A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.

A type of cardboard.

Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the person who makes the graffiti.

A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.

An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").

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

(baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.

The tag was applied at second for the final out.

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

The </code> <strong>tag </strong> provides a title for the Web page. </em> </dd></dl> <dl><dd><em>The <code><sarcasm></code> <strong>tag </strong> conveys sarcasm in Internet slang. </em> </dd></dl> <li> (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. </li> <dl><dd><em>I want to add genre and artist <strong>tags </strong> to the files in my music collection. </em> </dd></dl> <li> Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely. </li> <li> A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it. </li> <li> The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue. </li> <li> Something mean and paltry; the rabble. </li> <li> A sheep in its first year. </li> <dl><dd>(<i>Halliwell</i>) </dd></dl> <li> (<i>lb</i>) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins. </li> </div><div class='fourth-Verb'><h4>Verb</h4> (<i>tagg</i>) <li> To label (something). </li> <li> (graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag. </li> <li> To remove dung tags from a sheep. </li> <dl><dd><em>Regularly <strong>tag </strong> the rear ends of your sheep. </em> </dd></dl> <li> (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard. </li> <dl><dd><em>He really <strong>tagged </strong> that ball. </em> </dd></dl> <li> (baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand. </li> <dl><dd><em>He <strong>tagged </strong> the runner for the out. </em> </dd></dl> <li> (computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification). </li> <dl><dd><em>I am <strong>tagging </strong> my music files by artist and genre. </em> </dd></dl> <li> To follow closely, accompany, tag along. </li> <li>* <strong>1906 </strong>, O. Henry, <em> </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>A tall young man came striding through the park along the path near which she sat. Behind him <strong>tagged </strong> a boy carrying a suit-case. </i></dd></dl> <li> To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag). </li> <li> To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags. </li> <li>* Macaulay </li> <dl><dd><i>He learned to make long-<strong>tagged </strong> thread laces. </i></dd></dl> <li>* Dryden </li> <dl><dd><i>His courteous host / <strong>Tags </strong> every sentence with some fawning word. </i></dd></dl> <li> To fasten; to attach. </li> <dl><dd>(<i>Bolingbroke</i>) </dd></dl> </div><div class='fifth-Derived terms'><h5>Derived terms</h5> * tag along * tag cloud * tag end * ! * tag out * phone tag * telephone tag </div><div class='third-Etymology 2'><h3>Etymology 2</h3> From (<i>etyl</i>) . </div><div class='fourth-Noun'><h4>Noun</h4> (<i>tagin</i>) <li> A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls. </li> </div><div class='third-Anagrams'><h3>Anagrams</h3> * ---- </div></cite></div><div class='definition' style='width:43%;max-width:43%;float:left;text-align:left;'><cite tite="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/effect"><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/effect"><h1> effect </h1></a><div class='second-English'><h2>English</h2> (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/effect">wikipedia effect</a></i>) </div><div class='third-Noun'><h3>Noun</h3> <li> The result or outcome of a cause. <em>See below. </em> </li> <li>* </li> , title=(<i>The Celebrity</i>), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral <strong>effect </strong>, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}} <li>* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(<i>Margery Allingham</i>), title=(<i>The China Governess</i>) </li> , chapter=1 <q cite='http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W'>citation</q> , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the <strong>effect </strong> was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}} <li>* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(<i>The Economist</i>) </li> , title= <q cite='http://www.economist.com/news/business/21579011-president-proposes-new-round-intellectual-property-reform-obama-goes-troll-hunting'>Obama goes troll-hunting</q> , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing <strong>effect </strong> on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}} <dl><dd> </dd></dl> <li> Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. </li> <li>* J. C. Shairp </li> <dl><dd><i>patchwork introduced for oratorical <strong>effect </strong> </i></dd></dl> <li>* Washington Irving </li> <dl><dd><i>The <strong>effect </strong> was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place. </i></dd></dl> <li> (filmology) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect") </li> <dl><dd> </dd></dl> <li> (sound engineering) An alteration in sound after it has been produced by an instrument. </li> <dl><dd> </dd></dl> <li> (sound engineering) A device for producing an alteration in sound produced by an instrument. </li> <dl><dd> </dd></dl> <li> Execution; performance; realization; operation. </li> <li>* Shakespeare </li> <dl><dd><i>That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The <strong>effect </strong> and it. </i></dd></dl> <li># (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law. </li> <li><dl><dd> </dd></dl> </li> <li> A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer. </li> <dl><dd> </dd></dl> <li> (usually plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects. </li> <li> Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with <em>to </em>. </li> <li>* Bible, Chron. xxxiv. 22 </li> <dl><dd><i>They spake to her to that <strong>effect </strong>. </i></dd></dl> <li> (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance. </li> <li>* Denham </li> <dl><dd><i>no other in <strong>effect </strong> than what it seems </i></dd></dl> <li> (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign. </li> <li>* Shakespeare </li> <dl><dd><i>All the large <strong>effects </strong> / That troop with majesty. </i></dd></dl> </div><div class='fourth-Usage notes'><h4>Usage notes</h4> The words “affect” and “<strong>effect<em>'” can both be used as nouns or verbs, but when used as a noun the word affect is limited to uses in the psychology field, and the above definitions for ' </em>effect </strong> are much more common. See also the usage notes as a verb below. Adjectives often applied to "effect": * biological, chemical, cultural, economic, legal, mental, moral, nutritional, personal, physical, physiological, political and social * actual, bad, beneficial, catastrophic, deleterious, disastrous, devastating, fatal, good, harmful, important, intended, likely, natural, negative, positive, potential, primary, real, secondary, significant, special, strong, undesirable and weak </div><div class='fourth-Derived terms'><h4>Derived terms</h4> (<i>noun phrases using effect</i>) * after-effect, aftereffect * butterfly effect * domino effect * Doppler effect * greenhouse effect * in effect * knock-on effect * Nader effect * personal effects * ripple effect * side effect * snowball effect * special effect * sound effect * spoiler effect </div><div class='third-Verb'><h3>Verb</h3> (<i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#verb">en verb</a></i>) <li> To make or bring about; to implement. </li> <dl><dd><em>The best way to <strong>effect </strong> change is to work with existing stakeholders. </em> </dd></dl> <li> </li> </div><div class='fourth-Usage notes'><h4>Usage notes</h4> <strong>Effect<em>' is often confused with “' </em>affect </strong>”. The latter is used to convey the influence over existing ideas, emotions and entities; the former indicates the manifestation of new or original ideas or entities: * “...new governing coalitions have <strong>effected </strong> major changes” indicates that major changes were made as a result of new governing coalitions. * “...new governing coalitions have <strong>affected </strong> major changes” indicates that before new governing coalitions, major changes were in place, and that the new governing coalitions had some influence over these existing changes. </div><div class='fourth-Related terms'><h4>Related terms</h4> * effective * effectiveness * effectivity * effector * effectual * effectuate * efficacious * efficacity * efficacy * efficiency * efficient </div><div class='third-Statistics'><h3>Statistics</h3> * </div><div class='third-External links'><h3>External links</h3> * * <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English words affected by confusion">English words affected by confusion</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:1000_basic_English_words">1000 English basic words</a> ---- </div></cite></div></div></div></div> </section>  </div>  <footer id="footer-block"> <div class="region region-footer"> <div id="block-block-23" class="block block-block"> <div class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons"></div> </div><div id="block-block-2" class="block block-block"><div align="center"> <p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"><img src="https://wikidiff.com/static/CC_88x31.webp" width="88px" height="31px" border="0" alt="Creative Commons by-sa 3.0"/></a> Text is available under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License;</a> additional terms may apply.<br/> <br/> See <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use">Wiktionary Terms of Use</a> for details.</p> </div> </div><div id="block-block-20" class="block block-block"><div align="center"><a href="/privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a> | <a href="/about-us">About Us</a> | <a href="/contact/contact_us">Contact Us</a></div></div></div> </footer></body> </html>