bag
/bæɡ/
Frequency: 4.79 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music."
- "And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing."
- "They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag."
- "The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head."
- "He headed back to the bag."
- "A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bagge, baggi
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bæɡ/
- British English: /bæɡ/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Colloquial
- Derogatory
- British usage
- Informal
- Slang
- American usage