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Webster 1913 Edition

Tag

Tag

,
Noun.
[Probably akin to
tack
a small nail; cf. Sw.
tagg
a prickle, point, tooth.]
1.
Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
2.
A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
3.
The end, or catchword, of an actor’s speech; cue.
4.
Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
[Obs.]
Tag and rag
,
the lowest sort; the rabble.
Holinshed.
5.
A sheep of the first year.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Tag

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tagged
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tagging
.]
1.
To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
He learned to make long-
tagged
thread laces.
Macaulay.
His courteous host . . .
Tags
every sentence with some fawning word.
Dryden.
2.
To join; to fasten; to attach.
Bolingbroke.
3.
To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See
Tag
, a play.

Tag

,
Verb.
I.
To follow closely, as it were an appendage; – often with after;
as, to
tag
after a person
.

Tag

,
Noun.
[From
Tag
,
Verb.
; cf.
Tag
, an end.]
A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tag

TAG

,
Noun.
[L. digitus.]
1.
A metallic point put to the end of a string.
2.
Something mean and paltry; as tag-rag people. [Vulgar.]
3.
A young sheep. [Local.]

TAG

,
Verb.
T.
To fit with a point; as, to tag lace.
1.
To fit one thing to another; to append to.
His courteous host
Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
2.
To join or fasten.

TAG

,
Noun.
A play in which the person gains who tags, that is, touches another. This was a common sport among boys in Connecticut formerly, and it may be still. The word is inserted here for the sake of the evidence it affords of the affinity of languages, and of the original orthography of the Latin tango, to touch, which was tago. This vulgar tag is the same word; the primitive word retained by the common people. It is used also as a verb, to tag. [See Touch.]

Definition 2024

tåg

tåg

See also: tag, taag, Tag, Taag, TAG, and tág

Swedish

Noun

tåg n

  1. a railroad train (string of waggons)
  2. a train, a march, a military campaign, a caravan (string of people walking)
  3. a raid, a journey
  4. a rope

Declension

Inflection of tåg 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tåg tåget tåg tågen
Genitive tågs tågets tågs tågens

Related terms

railroad train
  • expresståg
  • fjärrtåg
  • godståg
  • höghastighetståg
  • lokaltåg
  • motorvagnståg
  • nattåg
  • passagerartåg
  • pendeltåg
  • persontåg
  • regionaltåg
  • snabbtåg
  • S-tåg
  • tågbiljett
  • tågbyte
  • tågdöd
  • tågdödad
  • tågfärja
  • tågfönster
  • tågförare
  • tågförbindelse
  • tågförsening
  • tågkatastrof
  • tågklarerare
  • tågkrock
  • tågkupé
  • tågledes
  • tåglinje
  • tågluffa
  • tågluffare
  • tågluffning
  • tågmästare
  • tågolycka
  • tågombyte
  • tågpassagerare
  • tågpendlare
  • tågpersonal
  • tågresa
  • tågresenär
  • tågrån
  • tågrånare
  • tågset
  • tågsjuk
  • tågstation
  • tågstopp
  • tågsätt
  • tågtaxi
  • tågtid
  • tågtidtabell
  • tågtrafik
  • tågtunnel
  • tågurspårning
  • tågvagn
  • tågvissla
  • tågvärd
  • tågvärdinna
procession
  • demonstrationståg
  • fälttåg
  • intåg
  • korståg
  • förstamajtåg
  • pulståg
  • uttåg
  • återtåg
raid
  • krigståg
  • plundringståg
  • vikingatåg
rope
  • tågvirke
  • tågända
  • tågände

References

Etymology

From Middle Low German toge, toch, from Old Saxon *tugi, from Proto-Germanic *tugiz. Cognate with Dutch teug, German Zug, Old English tyge.

Swedes would make no difference between tåg in vikingatåg ‎(“viking raid”), korståg ‎(“crusade”), fälttåg, krigståg, and plundringståg ‎(“pillage raid”), but in Danish they use different words, indicating different etymologies:

  • Based on tog ‎(“train, campaign”): korstog, felttog
  • Based on togt ‎(“raid, journey”): vikingetogt, krigstogt, plyndringstogt ‎(“pillage raid”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /toːg/

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