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Flag

Noun

Definiciones

1.NounA piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
2.NounThe design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
"The flag of France has three vertical stripes."
3.NounA flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
4.NounA signal flag.
5.NounThe use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
6.NounA variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
7.NounIn a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
8.NounA mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
9.NounThe game of capture the flag.
10.NounA sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
11.NounA sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
12.NounA dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
13.NounAn apron.
14.NounAn indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.
"set a death flag; raise the heroine's flags (in a galge)"
15.NounA groat; fourpence.
16.VerbTo furnish or deck out with flags.
17.VerbTo mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
18.VerbTo signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
"Please flag down a taxi for me."
19.VerbTo convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
"to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance"
20.VerbTo note, mark or point out for attention.
"I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.; Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate."
21.VerbTo signal (an event).
"The compiler flagged three errors."
22.VerbTo set a program variable to true.
"Flag the debug option before running the program."
23.VerbTo decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
24.VerbTo penalize for an infraction.
"The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct."
25.VerbTo lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
26.VerbTo defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
"White was winning positionally, but Black managed to flag him and win."
27.VerbTo point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
28.VerbTo fail, such as a class or an exam.
"After he flagged Algebra, Mike was ineligible for the football team."
29.VerbIn female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.
30.VerbTo weaken, become feeble.
"His strength flagged toward the end of the race."
31.VerbTo hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
32.VerbTo let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
33.VerbTo enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
34.NounAny of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
35.NounA slice of turf; a sod.
36.NounA slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
37.NounAny hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
38.VerbTo pave with flagstones.
"Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend."
39.NounA group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
40.NounA group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
41.NounThe bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
42.NounA hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
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