(v. i.) To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
(v. i.) To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
(v. t.) To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
(v. t.) To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
(n.) That which flags or hangs down loosely.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
(n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
(n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
(v. t.) To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
(v. t.) To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
(n.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
(v. t.) To furnish or deck out with flags.
(n.) A flat stone used for paving.
(n.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
(v. t.) To lay with flags of flat stones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(2) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(3) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
(4) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(5) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(6) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
(7) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(8) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
(9) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(10) Perhaps you'd like to know how she felt holding the Olympic flag alongside Ban Ki-moon at the 2012 opening ceremony .
(11) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
(12) On Wednesday, managing director Mike Devereux also flagged that the company's future in the country was not certain if government funding was not locked in over a long period.
(13) And when you said the pledge of allegiance in the morning, you had to look at those flags.
(14) For a while North Korea refused to play, but after delicate negotiations the players were persuaded back on to the pitch and the correct flag was displayed alongside the team photos.
(15) Photograph: ICAEW A separate report puts UK business confidence at a two-year low amid flagging economic growth.
(16) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.
(17) But Ofcom said the quizzes, aired on October 29 2006 and November 25 2006 respectively, were too difficult, featuring alterations to the signs and flags which could not reasonably have been detected by viewers.
(18) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(19) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
(20) 1.08pm BST Lap 2: Sergio Perez is out after an incident at Mirabeau, which is what brought out the yellow flags and safety car.
Flagstaff
Definition:
(n.) A staff on which a flag is hoisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Flagstaff in Arizona had 11 inches of snow early Sunday, while metro Phoenix and other parts of central Arizona were drenched with several inches of rain, causing the cancellation of sporting events and parades.
(2) Accessing the ruins via ladders has been banned since 1951, and there are no camping or lodging facilities within the park, but accommodation ranging from primitive campsites to upscale luxury hotels can be found in the surrounding Coconino national forest and nearby Sedona and Flagstaff.
(3) In June, 19 members of a firefighting crew known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots died near Flagstaff, Arizona , after being forced into emergency shelters when winds shifted, cutting off their escape route.
(4) x 3-5 cm in length, W. L. Gore and Associates, Inc., Flagstaff, AZ) placed in the carotid arteries of normal baboons.
(5) Gore & Associates, Flagstaff, AZ) and dura for closing large, full thickness abdominal wall defects in terms of resistance to infection, patch separation, and intraperitoneal adhesion formation.
(6) The biologic fixation (bone ingrowth) of three prosthetic ligament devices (bovine xenograft Xenotech Laboratories, Inc., Irvine, CA; Gore-Tex, W. L. Gore and Associates, Flagstaff, AZ; and knitted dacron, Stryker, Kalamazoo, MI) and one ligament augmentation device (LAD, braided polypropylene, 3M, St. Paul, MN) were evaluated in vivo.
(7) Mayer and Dyer live in a one-level wood cabin a few miles north of downtown Flagstaff, in a wooded area near a field of wildflowers.
(8) The five largest pueblos at Wupatki can be visited in a day and make for a nice trip from Flagstaff or a scenic detour on the way to the Grand Canyon.
(9) And then there is the Eiffel Tower – the world's tallest flagstaff, according to its designer.
(10) Patency rate at 6 months was 60% (three of five) for the Ultraflex graft (experimental graft by Baxter Edwards, CVS Division, Irvine, CA), and 25% (one of four) for the Gore-Tex graft (WL Gore & Associates, Inc., Flagstaff, AZ).
(11) Scardino was born in Flagstaff, Arizona, and took British citizenship in January 2002.
(12) • 100 North San Francisco Street, +1 928 779 6971, hotelmontevista.com 13 The Museum Club, Flagstaff, Arizona This log cabin was built in 1931 as a taxidermy curio cabinet and became a roadhouse in 1939.
(13) Home to the ancient Pueblo people (formerly known as the Anasazi) Wupatki national monument, north of Flagstaff, has the ruins of five pueblos, built from slabs of the region's brick-red Moenkopi sandstone.
(14) A parallel strand, prototype, expanded polytetrafluoroethylene graft (W. L. Gore and Associates, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.) was used.
(15) More than 80 single-family homes are found tucked into natural limestone overhangs in this canyon, just 10 miles east of Flagstaff.
(16) SenesTech, which is based in Flagstaff, Arizona, claims to have created a liquid that will do exactly that.
(17) Expanded polytef soft-tissue patch (polytetrafluoroethylene; Gore-Tex Soft-Tissue Patch, Gore-Tex, W. L. Gore & Assoc Inc., Flagstaff, Ariz) was used to help correct midfacial and perioral asymmetries in 11 patients with complete unilateral facial paralysis.
(18) • 4802 North Broadway, +1 773 878 5552, greenmilljazz.com 12 Hotel Monte Vista Cocktail Lounge, Flagstaff, Arizona Facebook Twitter Pinterest This place was built in 1926, the year Route 66 opened.
(19) After an evaluation of existing membranes and techniques, a procedure was developed using an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene soft tissue patch, 1 mm thick (W. L. Gore and Assoc., Flagstaff, AZ), in conjunction with an alloplast hydroxylapatite bone substitute (HA-500, 40-60 mesh) (Orthomatrix, Minneapolis, MN), to maintain a space for the maturation of the blood clot.
(20) To evaluate the effects of Ringer's lactate instillation, Interceed(TC7) (Johnson and Johnson Medical, Inc., New Brunswick NJ), and Gore-Tex Surgical Membrane (W. L. Gore and Associates, Inc., Flagstaff, AZ) in a rat uterine horn model.