flag
/flæːɡ/
Frequency: 4.58 in modern English
Meaning
noun
The 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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A 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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The vote in the Bundestag (parliament) on Thursday makes defiling foreign flags equal to the crime of defiling the German flag. […] The new law also applies to acts of defilement besides burning, such as publicly ripping a flag up."
- "The flag of France has three vertical stripes."
- "This will be used as a help message if the user passes in the --help flag, like so: […]"
- "I was shooting an IFR approach down the San Francisco slot, when all of a sudden the ILS flag popped up."
- "[…] and then the OFF flag popped up and the needle went dead."
- "A flag of P is a sequence (F₀, F₁, ..., Fₘ) of faces of P such that dim Fᵢ = i for each i and Fᵢ is a side of Fᵢ₊₁ for each i acts transitively on its flags."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /flæːɡ/
- British English: /flæɡ/