1.  flag(n = noun.artifact) - emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design;
is a kind of emblem
has particulars: american flag, old glory, star-spangled banner, stars and stripes, banner, streamer, battle flag, black flag, blackjack, jolly roger, pirate flag, colors, colours, fanion, jack, pennant, pennon, streamer, waft, banner, standard, confederate flag, stars and bars, tricolor, tricolour, union flag, union jack, flag of truce, white flag, yellow jack, ensign, national flag
Derived forms verb flag₁, verb flag₄

2.  flag(n = noun.communication) masthead - a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.;
is a kind of list, listing

3.  flag(n = noun.plant) fleur-de-lis, iris, sword lily - plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals;
is a kind of iridaceous plant
is a member of genus iris
has particulars: bearded iris, beardless iris, bulbous iris, dwarf iris, iris cristata, gladdon, gladdon iris, iris foetidissima, roast beef plant, stinking gladwyn, stinking iris, iris persica, persian iris, iris pseudacorus, yellow flag, yellow iris, yellow water flag, dwarf iris, iris verna, vernal iris, blue flag, iris versicolor, iris virginica, southern blue flag, english iris, iris xiphioides

4.  flag(n = noun.communication) signal flag - a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device;
is a kind of visual signal
has particulars: pennant, code flag, nautical signal flag, red flag
Derived form verb flag₁

5.  flag(n = noun.artifact) pin - flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green;
is a kind of golf equipment

6.  flag(n = noun.artifact) flagstone - stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones;
is a kind of paving stone

7.  flag(n = noun.animal) - a conspicuously marked or shaped tail;
is a kind of tail
is a part of canis familiaris, dog, domestic dog, cervid, deer

1.  flag(v = verb.communication) - communicate or signal with a flag;
is one way to sign, signal, signalise, signalize
Derived forms noun flag₁, noun flag₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something

2.  flag(v = verb.change) - provide with a flag; "Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately"
is one way to mark
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

3.  flag(v = verb.motion) droop, sag, swag - droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness;
is one way to drop, drop down, sink
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s

4.  flag(v = verb.creation) - decorate with flags; "the building was flagged for the holiday"
is one way to adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament
Derived form noun flag₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

5.  flag(v = verb.change) ease off, ease up, slacken off - become less intense;
is one way to decrease, diminish, fall, lessen
Sample sentences: Something ----s

1.  To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. [1913 Webster]
"As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast." [1913 Webster]

2.  To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the strength flags. [1913 Webster]
"The pleasures of the town begin to flag."

1.  To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings. prior. [1913 Webster]

2.  To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. [1913 Webster]
"Nothing so flags the spirits." [1913 Webster]

1.  That which flags or hangs down loosely. [1913 Webster]

2.  A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag. [1913 Webster]

3.  A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc. [1913 Webster]

4.  One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird; -- called also flag feather. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

1.  To signal to with a flag or by waving the hand; as, to flag a train; also used with down; as, to flag down a cab. [1913 Webster]

2.  To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance. [1913 Webster]

3.  To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, or the like to arouse the animal's curiosity.
"The antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus. [1913 Webster]

   To furnish or deck out with flags. [1913 Webster]

1.  A flat stone used for paving. Woodward. [1913 Webster]

2.  Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones. [1913 Webster]

   To lay with flags of flat stones. [1913 Webster]
"The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble." [1913 Webster]

flag, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a piece of cloth, usu. oblong or square, attachable by one edge to a pole or rope and used as a country's emblem or as a standard, signal, etc. b a small toy, device, etc., resembling a flag.
2 Brit. an oblong strip of metal etc. that can be raised or lowered to indicate whether a taxi is for hire or occupied.
3 Naut. a flag carried by a flagship as an emblem of an admiral's rank afloat.
--v. (flagged, flagging)
1 intr. a grow tired; lose vigour; lag (his energy flagged after the first lap). b hang down; droop; become limp.
2 tr. a place a flag on or over. b mark out with or as if with a flag or flags.
3 tr. (often foll. by that) a inform (a person) by flag-signals. b communicate (information) by flagging.

Idiom:
black flag
1 a pirate's ensign.
2 hist. a flag hoisted outside a prison to announce an execution. flag-boat a boat serving as a mark in sailing-matches. flag-captain the captain of a flagship. flag-day Brit. a day on which money is raised for a charity by the sale of small paper flags etc. in the street. Flag Day US 14 June, the anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes in 1777. flag down signal to (a vehicle or driver) to stop. flag-lieutenant Naut. an admiral's ADC. flag-list Naut. a roll of flag-officers. flag of convenience a foreign flag under which a ship is registered, usu. to avoid financial charges etc. flag-officer Naut. an admiral, vice admiral, or rear admiral, or the commodore of a yacht-club. flag of truce a white flag indicating a desire for a truce. flag-pole = FLAGSTAFF. flag-rank Naut. the rank attained by flag-officers. flag-station a station at which trains stop only if signalled.
flag-wagging sl.
1 signalling with hand-held flags.
2 = flag-waving. flag-waver a populist agitator; a chauvinist. flag-waving populist agitation, chauvinism. keep the flag flying continue the fight. put the flag out celebrate victory, success, etc.
show the flag
1 make an official visit to a foreign port etc.
2 ensure that notice is taken of one's country, oneself, etc.; make a patriotic display.

Derivative:
flagger n.

flag, n. & v.
--n. (also flagstone)
1 a flat usu. rectangular stone slab used for paving.
2 (in pl.) a pavement made of these.
--v.tr. (flagged, flagging) pave with flags.

flag, n.
1 any plant with a bladed leaf (esp. several of the genus Iris) growing on moist ground.
2 the long slender leaf of such a plant.

flag, n. (in full flag-feather) a quill-feather of a bird's wing.

Etymology:
perh. rel. to obs. fag loose flap: cf. FLAG(1) v.

VB  V, be ill, ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have, droop, flag, languish, halt, sicken, peak, pine, gasp, keep one's bed, feign sickness, lay by, lay up, take a disease, catch a disease, catch an infection, break out.

VB  be inactive, do nothing, move slowly, let the grass grow under one's feet, take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch, loll, lollop, lounge, poke, loaf, loiter, go to sleep over, sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile, take it easy, take things as they come, lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness, loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence, waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time, burn daylight, waste the precious hours, idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time, spend time in, take time in, peddle, piddle, potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle, dally, dilly-dally, sleep, slumber, be asleep, hibernate, oversleep, sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse, sleep soundly, heavily, doze, drowze, snooze, nap, take a nap, dream, snore one's best, settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep, doze off, drop off, fall asleep, drop asleep, close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids, weigh down the eyelids, get sleep, nod, yawn, go to bed, turn, get some z's, stack z's, languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire, relax, render idle, sluggardize, mitigate.

VB  be fatigued, yawn, droop, sink, flag, lose breath, lose wind, gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb, fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate, tax, task, strain, overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax, overstrain, be fatigued, yawn, droop, sink, flag, lose breath, lose wind, gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb, fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate, tax, task, strain, overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax, overstrain.

N  scepter, regalia, caduceus, Mercury's rod, Mercury's staff, Mercury's wand, rod of empire, mace, fasces, wand, staff, staff of office, baton, truncheon, flag, ensign of authority, emblem of authority, badge of authority, insignia of authority, throne, chair, musnud, divan, dais, woolsack, toga, pall, mantle, robes of state, ermine, purple, crown, coronet, diadem, tiara, cap of maintenance, decoration, title, portfolio, key, signet, seals, talisman, helm, reins.

VB  be weak, drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave, render weak, weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate, unbrace, unnerve, cripple, unman, cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of, dilute, impoverish, decimate, extenuate, reduce in strength, reduce the strength of, mettre de l'eau dans son vin.

N  layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.

N  base, basement, plinth, dado, wainscot, baseboard, mopboard, bedrock, hardpan, foundation, substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck, footing, ground work, basis, hold, bilge, bottom, nadir, foot, sole, toe, hoof, keel, root, centerboard, bottom, undermost, nethermost, fundamental, founded on, based on, grounded on, built on.

VB  move slowly, creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter, plod, trudge, stump along, lumber, trail, drag, dawdle, grovel, worm one's way, steal along, job on, rub on, bundle on, toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble, flag, falter, trotter, stagger, mince, step short, march in slow time, march in funeral procession, take one's time, hang fire, retard, relax, slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb, reef, strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail, put on the drag, apply the brake, clip the wings, reduce the speed, slacken speed, slacken one's pace, lose ground.

N  indication, symbolism, symbolization, semiology, semiotics, semeiology, semeiotics, Zeitgeist, characteristic, diagnostic, lineament, feature, trait, fingerprint, voiceprint, footprint, noseprint, cloven hoof, footfall, recognition (memory), diagnostic, divining rod, detector, sign, symbol, index, indice, indicator, point, pointer, exponent, note, token, symptom, dollar sign, dollar mark, type, figure, emblem, cipher, device, representation, epigraph, motto, posy, gesture, gesticulation, pantomime, wink, glance, leer, nod, shrug, beck, touch, nudge, dactylology, dactylonomy, freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show, cue, hint, clue, clew, key, scent, signal, signal post, rocket, blue light, watch fire, watch tower, telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff, cresset, fiery cross, calumet, heliograph, guidon, headlight, mark, scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point, notch, nick, print, imprint, impress, impression, keyboard symbols, printing symbols, red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font, jotting, note, annotation, reference, blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure, quotation marks, ", double quotes, " ", parentheses, "( )", brackets, "", braces, "", left arrow, "<", right arrow, ">", forward slash, "/", backward slash, "\", exclamation point, "!", commercial at, "@", pound sign, "#", percent sign, "%", carat, "", ampersand, "&", asterisk, "*", hyphen, "-", dash, "-", "_", em dash, "--", plus sign, "+", equals sign, "=", question mark, "?", period, ", ", semicolon, ", ", colon, ":", comma, ", ", apostrophe, "'", single quote, "'", tilde, "~", badge, criterion, countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil, duplicate, tally, label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop, dib, totem, tessera, card, bill, witness, voucher, stamp, cacher, trade mark, Hall mark, signature, mark, autograph, autography, attestation, hand, hand writing, sign manual, cipher, seal, sigil, signet, hand and seal, paraph, brand, superscription, indorsement, endorsement, password, watchword, catchword, security card, pass, passkey, credentials, open sesame, timbrology, mot de passe, mot du guet, pass-parole, shibboleth, title, heading, docket, address card, visiting card, carte de visite, insignia, banner, banneret, bannerol, bandrol, flag, colors, streamer, standard, eagle, labarum, oriflamb, oriflamme, figurehead, ensign, pennon, pennant, pendant, burgee, blue Peter, jack, ancient, gonfalon, union jack, banderole, old glory, quarantine flag, vexillum, yellow-flag, yellow jack, tricolor, stars and stripes, bunting, heraldry, crest, coat of arms, arms, armorial bearings, hatchment, escutcheon, scutcheon, shield, supporters, livery, uniform, cockade, epaulet, chevron, garland, love knot, favor, beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer, vane, cock, weathercock, guidepost, handpost, fingerpost, directing post, signpost, pillars of Hercules, pharos, bale-fire, beacon-fire, l'etoile du Nord, landmark, seamark, lighthouse, balize, polestar, loadstar, lodestar, cynosure, guide, address, direction, name, sign, signboard, warning, omen, prefigurement, trace, record, warning &c, alarm, scepter, trophy, gauge, milestone, milepost, brand, fool's cap, check, telltale, test, mileage ticket, milliary, notification, advertisement, word of command, call, bugle call, trumpet call, bell, alarum, cry, battle cry, rallying cry, angelus, reveille, sacring bell, sanctus bell, exposition &c (explanation), proof, pattern, indicating, indicative, indicatory, denotative, connotative, diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic, pathognomonic, symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative, diagnostic, exponential, emblematic, armorial, individual, known by, recognizable by, indicated, pointed, marked, denotable, indelible, in token of, symbolically, in dumb show, ecce signum, ex ungue leonem, ex pede Herculem, vide ut supra, vultus ariete fortior.

american flag, battle flag, black flag, blue flag, code flag, confederate flag, flag captain, flag day, flag down, flag of truce, flag officer, flag rank, flag smut, flag smut fungus, flag stop, flag waving, knight of the square flag, myrtle flag, national flag, nautical signal flag, palmetto flag, pilot flag, pirate flag, red flag, signal flag, soft flag, southern blue flag, sweet flag, union flag, water flag, wheat flag smut, white flag, yellow flag, yellow water flag