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Tag is a related term of order.


As an abbreviation tag

is .

As a noun order is

, command.

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/order"><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/order"><h1> order </h1></a><div class='second-English'><h2>English</h2> (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/order">wikipedia order</a></i>) </div><div class='third-Alternative forms'><h3>Alternative forms</h3> * ordre (<i>obsolete</i>) </div><div class='third-Noun'><h3>Noun</h3> <li> (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence. </li> <li> (uncountable) The state of being well arranged. </li> <dl><dd><em>The house is in <strong>order'''; the machinery is out of '''order </strong>. </em> </dd></dl> <li> Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet. </li> <dl><dd><em>to preserve <strong>order </strong> in a community or an assembly </em> </dd></dl> <li> (countable) A command. </li> <li>* {{quote-book, year=1907, author= </li> , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=30 <q cite='http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4429277W'>citation</q> , passage=It was by his <strong>order </strong> the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}} <li> (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods. </li> <li>* {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(<i>The Economist</i>) <q cite='http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21567193-networking-enthusiasts-dream-building-drone-powered-internet-carry-objects'>citation</q> </li> , passage=A farmer could place an <strong>order </strong> for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.}} <li> (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles; as, the Jesuit Order. </li> <li> (countable) An association of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath. </li> <li> any group of people with common interests. </li> <li> (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity. </li> <li> (countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank. </li> <li>* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= <q cite='http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/katie-l-burke'>Katie L. Burke</q> </li> , title= <q cite='http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/3/in-the-news-45'>In the News</q> , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(<i>American Scientist</i>) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another <strong>order </strong> of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}} <dl><dd> </dd></dl> <li> A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort. </li> <dl><dd><em>the higher or lower <strong>orders </strong> of society </em> </dd></dl> <dl><dd><em>talent of a high <strong>order </em> </strong> </dd></dl> <li>* Jeremy Taylor </li> <dl><dd><i>They are in equal <strong>order </strong> to their several ends. </i></dd></dl> <li>* Granville </li> <dl><dd><i>Various <strong>orders </strong> various ensigns bear. </i></dd></dl> <li>* Hawthorne </li> <dl><dd><i> which, to his <strong>order </strong> of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. </i></dd></dl> <li> An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural. </li> <dl><dd><em>to take <strong>orders''', or to take '''holy orders </strong>, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry </em> </dd></dl> <li> (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing. </li> <li> (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order. </li> <li> (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. </li> <li>* a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter. </li> <li> (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products. </li> <li> (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure. </li> <li> (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph. </li> <li> (order theory) A partially ordered set. </li> <li> (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered set. </li> <li> (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial. </li> </div><div class='fourth-Quotations'><h4>Quotations</h4> * <strong>1611 </strong> — 1:1 </em> *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in <strong>order </strong> a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us... * Donald Knuth. Volume 3: ''Sorting and Searching, </em> Addison-Wesley, 1973, chapter 8: *: Since only two of our tape drives were in working <strong>order<em>', I was '''ordered''' to '''order''' more tape units in short '''order''', in '''order''' to '''order''' the data several ' </em>orders </strong> of magnitude faster. </div><div class='fourth-Antonyms'><h4>Antonyms</h4> * chaos </div><div class='fourth-Derived terms'><h4>Derived terms</h4> * alphabetical order * antisocial behaviour order * Anton Piller order * apple-pie order * back-to-work order * bottom order * court order * doctor's orders * Doric order * executive order * first order stream * fraternal birth order * gagging order * Groceries Order * in order / in order to * in short order * infra-order * interim order * last orders * law-and-order * Mary Bell order * mendicant order * middle order * moral order * New World Order * on the order of * order in council * Order of Australia * order of magnitude * order of operations * order of precedence * order of the day * order stream * out of order * partial order * pecking order * place an order * put one's house in order * purchase order * religious order * restraining order * second order stream * short order * standing order * stop-loss order * superorder * tall order * third order stream * total order * well-order * working order * z-order </div><div class='fourth-See also'><h4>See also</h4> * </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 set in some sort of order. </li> <li> To arrange, set in proper order. </li> <li> To issue a command to. </li> <dl><dd><em>to <strong>order </strong> troops to advance </em> </dd></dl> <li> To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order. </li> <dl><dd><em>to <strong>order </strong> groceries </em> </dd></dl> <li> To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. </li> <li>* <em>Book of Common Prayer </em> </li> <dl><dd><i>persons presented to be <strong>ordered </strong> deacons </i></dd></dl> </div><div class='fifth-Synonyms'><h5>Synonyms</h5> * (<i>arrange into some sort of order</i>) sort, rank </div><div class='fourth-Derived terms'><h4>Derived terms</h4> * just what the doctor ordered * made-to-order * mail-order * order of magnitude * order out * well-order </div><div class='third-Related terms'><h3>Related terms</h3> * ordain * orderly * ordinal * ordinary </div><div class='third-Statistics'><h3>Statistics</h3> * </div><div class='third-Anagrams'><h3>Anagrams</h3> * <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English control verbs">English control verbs</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English reporting verbs">English reporting verbs</a> <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:1000_basic_English_words">1000 English basic words</a> ---- </div></cite></div></div></div></div> <!-- /.region --></section> <!-- end main content --> </div><!-- main --> <!-- share,CCfooter --> <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> <!-- /.region --></footer></body> </html>