flag
/flæɡ/
A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol; The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity or an idea
- plural
- flags
Meanings
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A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol
Every country has its flag.
Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC BY 2.0 FR
That flag is very beautiful.
Tatoeba · AlanF_US · CC BY 2.0 FR
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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
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A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagshiprare
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A signal flagrare
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The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other eventrare
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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 placerare
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In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invokedrare
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A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunctionrare
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The game of capture the flagrare
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A 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 facerare