flag in Kashmiri कॉशुर
flag in Sindhi سنڌي
flag in Tamil தமிழ்
flag in English
- flag⇄adj. flagless.
- flag⇄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. - flag⇄expr. flag down, to signal to stop.
Ex. A policeman flagged down a motorist ... for making an illegal left turn (Maclean's). - flag⇄expr. flags,
a. the long feathers on the lower parts of certain birds' legs.
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). - flag⇄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 - flag⇄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). - flag⇄flag (1), noun, verb, flagged,flagging.
- flag⇄flag (2), noun.
1. an iris with blue, purple, yellow, or white flowers and sword-shaped leaves.
2. sweet flag.
3. cattail.
4. the flower of any one of these plants.
5. the leaf of any one of these plants. - flag⇄flag (3), intransitive verb, flagged,flagging.
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. - flag⇄flag (4), noun, verb, flagged,flagging.
- flag⇄noun flagger.
- flag⇄noun flagstone.
- flag⇄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 ar
- flag⇄v.t. to pave with flagstones.
- flag⇄v.t. 1. to put a flag or flags over or on; decorate with flags.
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.
3. to call attention to.
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