meaning of flag

1. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
2. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
3. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
4. To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
5. That which flags or hangs down loosely.
6. A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc. , or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
7. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
8. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
9. The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
10. To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
11. To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
12. An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
13. To furnish or deck out with flags.
14. A flat stone used for paving.
15. Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
16. To lay with flags of flat stones.
17. flag 1. A variable or quantity that can take on one of two values; a bit, particularly one that is used to indicate one of two outcomes or is used to control which of two things is to be done. "This flag controls whether to clear the screen before printing the message. " "The program status word contains several flag bits. " See also hidden flag, mode bit. 2. command line option. [Jargon File]
18. a conspicuously marked or shaped tail

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