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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: flag - flagpole</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="flag"> flag (1), noun, verb, flagged, flagging.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a piece of cloth with a pattern or picture on it that stands for some country, city, party, club, or other group, or that gives some information or signal. Flags are hung on poles over buildings, ships, army camps, etc. They vary in design but are frequently oblong or square and attached by one edge to a staff or halyard. Ex. the flag of the United States, the white flag of truce, the red flag showing danger. Weather flags are flown to show what kind of weather is coming. (SYN) ensign, standard, banner. <DD> 2. something that suggests or resembles a flag, such as the tail of a deer or of a setter dog. <DD> 3. a large cloth used to keep lights from interfering with a television camera. <DD> 4. (Music.) =hook (def. 18). <DD> 5. the name of a newspaper printed across the top of the front page. <DD>v.t. 1. to put a flag or flags over or on; decorate with flags. <DD> 2. to stop or signal (a person, train, bus, ship, airplane, etc.) by a flag. Ex. to flag down a cab. The train was flagged at the bridge. <DD> 3. to call attention to. Ex. He is ... refreshingly ready to flag his mistakes as well as his achievements (Listener). <DD> 4. (U.S. Military.) to put a tab of special color on a file folder or card to stop it from being altered or processed in any way. Ex. Wilson was able to order [the colonel], chief of staff at Fort Benning, to "flag" [the lieutenant's] records, an Army procedure freezing any promotion or transfer for a soldier (Harper's). <DD> 5. to communicate by a flag. Ex. to flag a message. <DD> 6. to decoy (game) by waving a flag or something like it to excite attention or curiosity. expr. break the flag, to unfurl the flag at the top of the staff. Ex. After ceremonies commissioning the ship her new captain broke the flag. expr. flag down, to signal to stop. Ex. A policeman flagged down a motorist ... for making an illegal left turn (Maclean's). expr. flags, <DD> a. the long feathers on the lower parts of certain birds' legs. <DD> b. the feathers on the second joint of a bird's wing. Ex. Like ... the haggard, cloistered in her mew ... to renew her broken flags (Francis Quarles). expr. keep the flag flying, to keep up an endeavor; carry on despite difficulties. Ex. Yet Freud, after valiant efforts to keep the flag flying, had to admit before 1900, that neither he nor anybody else could yet correlate all mental disturbances with demonstrable physical processes in the brain or nervous system (Atlantic). expr. wave the flag, to stir up patriotic or similar sentiments. Ex. The industry gets together annually to wave the flag in a pocket-sized exhibition (London Times). noun flagger. adj. flagless. </DL> <A NAME="flag"> flag (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. an iris with blue, purple, yellow, or white flowers and sword-shaped leaves. <DD> 2. =sweet flag. <DD> 3. =cattail. <DD> 4. the flower of any one of these plants. <DD> 5. the leaf of any one of these plants. </DL> <A NAME="flag"> flag (3), intransitive verb, flagged, flagging.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to get tired; grow weak; droop. Ex. My horse was flagging, but I urged him on. After you do the same thing for a long time, your interest flags. (SYN) decline, languish, fail, slacken. <DD> 2. to hang down; flap about loose. </DL> <A NAME="flag"> flag (4), noun, verb, flagged, flagging.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun =flagstone. <DD>v.t. to pave with flagstones. </DL> <A NAME="flagbearer"> flagbearer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the leader of a movement; standardbearer. Ex. The coalition Prime Minister ... is regarded as an anti-Market flagbearer (Manchester Guardian Weekly). </DL> <A NAME="flagboat"> flag boat,<DL COMPACT><DD> a boat, recognizable by a flag or flags, moored so as to mark the course to be followed in a sailing or rowing race. </DL> <A NAME="flagcaptain"> flag captain,<DL COMPACT><DD> the commanding officer of a flagship. </DL> <A NAME="flagcode"> flag code,<DL COMPACT><DD> a set of rules for displaying and honoring a flag, especially a national flag. </DL> <A NAME="flagday"> flag day,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a day on which money is raised for a cause by the sale of small paper flags which are worn as evidence that the wearer has contributed. Ex. A small licensing fee is to be introduced for persons selling flags on flag days (Punch). </DL> <A NAME="flagday"> Flag Day,<DL COMPACT><DD> June 14, the anniversary of the day in 1777 when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United States. </DL> <A NAME="flagella"> flagella, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plural of flagellum. </DL> <A NAME="flagellant"> flagellant, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a person who whips or is whipped. <DD> 2. a religious fanatic who whips himself for religious discipline or for penance. <DD>adj. having the habit of whipping. </DL> <A NAME="flagellantism"> flagellantism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the habit or practice of a flagellant. </DL> <A NAME="flagellar"> flagellar, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with a flagellum or flagella. </DL> <A NAME="flagellate"> flagellate, verb, -lated, -lating, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to whip; flog. (SYN) scourge, drub, thrash. <DD>adj. 1. flagelliform. <DD> 2. having flagella. Ex. ... complex forms of flagellate infusoria (W. B. Carpenter). <DD> 3. (Botany.) having runners or runnerlike branches. <DD>noun any one of a class of protistans that have one or more flagella serving as organs of locomotion and for obtaining food. Euglenas belong to this class. noun flagellator. </DL> <A NAME="flagellated"> flagellated, adjective. =flagellate.</DL> <A NAME="flagellation"> flagellation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a whipping; flogging. Ex. (Figurative.) Chiang made his decisions by introspection amounting almost to spiritual flagellation (Time). </DL> <A NAME="flagellatory"> flagellatory, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with flagellation. </DL> <A NAME="flagelliform"> flagelliform, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a whip; long, thin, and flexible; flagellate. </DL> <A NAME="flagellula"> flagellula, noun, pl. -lae.<DL COMPACT><DD> a spore or sporule with a flagelliform appendage. </DL> <A NAME="flagellum"> flagellum, noun, pl. -la or -lums.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a long, whiplike tail or part. Certain bacteria, sperm cells, and protozoans have flagella to enable them to move. <DD> 2. a runner of a plant. <DD> 3. a whip. </DL> <A NAME="flageolet"> flageolet, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small wind instrument somewhat like a flute, with a mouthpiece at one end, usually six finger holes, and sometimes keys. </DL> <A NAME="flagfall"> flag-fall, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the falling or dropping of a flag to indicate the start of a race. </DL> <A NAME="flagger"> flagger, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) an iris; flag. </DL> <A NAME="flagging"> flagging (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> drooping; tired; weak. Ex. Flagging spirits mark the end of the long day. adv. flaggingly. </DL> <A NAME="flagging"> flagging (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. flagstones. <DD> 2. a pavement made of flagstones. </DL> <A NAME="flaggy"> flaggy (1), adjective, -gier, -giest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. hanging down limply; drooping. <DD> 2. soft and flabby; having no firmness; flaccid. </DL> <A NAME="flaggy"> flaggy (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like flagstone. </DL> <A NAME="flaggy"> flaggy (3), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> abounding in or resembling the plants called flags. </DL> <A NAME="flaghoist"> flag hoist,<DL COMPACT><DD> a group of signal flags attached to the same halyard and hoisted as a unit. </DL> <A NAME="flagitate"> flagitate, transitive verb, -tated, -tating.<DL COMPACT><DD> to entreat earnestly; importune. </DL> <A NAME="flagitious"> flagitious, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> scandalously wicked; shamefully vile. Ex. Crimes shall whelm in ruin yon flagitious town (Alexander Pope). (SYN) infamous, heinous, nefarious. adv. flagitiously. noun flagitiousness. </DL> <A NAME="flagleaf"> flagleaf, noun. =flag (2) (def. 1).</DL> <A NAME="flaglieutenant"> flag lieutenant,<DL COMPACT><DD> an officer on an admiral's staff who acts as the admiral's aide-de-camp. </DL> <A NAME="flagman"> flagman, noun, pl. -men.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who signals with a flag or lantern at railroad crossings or to train crews. <DD> 2. a person who has charge of or carries a flag. </DL> <A NAME="flagofconvenience"> flag of convenience,<DL COMPACT><DD> the flag of a foreign country under which the owner of a merchant vessel registers and sails his ship, for a variety of reasons, such as less rigid regulation or differences in taxation. </DL> <A NAME="flagofficer"> flag officer,<DL COMPACT><DD> a naval officer entitled to display a flag on his ship indicating his rank or command. Fleet admiral, admiral, vice-admiral, rear admiral, and commodore are the U.S. ranks that are flag officers. </DL> <A NAME="flagoftruce"> flag of truce,<DL COMPACT><DD> a white flag used as a sign of surrender or of a desire to confer with the enemy. </DL> <A NAME="flagon"> flagon, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a container for liquids, usually having a handle and a spout, and often a cover. <DD> 2. a large bottle, holding about two quarts. <DD> 3. the contents of a flagon. expr. flinch the flagon, to let the bottle pass without taking a drink. Ex. He kept himself sober by always flinching the flagon. </DL> <A NAME="flagpole"> flagpole, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pole from which a flag is or may be flown; flagstaff. </DL> <A NAME="flagpolesitter"> flagpole sitter,<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who sits atop a flagpole for a long time, sometimes longer than a month, as a stunt, usually to get publicity. </DL> <A HREF="flagranc.dic">NEXT</A>