What's the difference between flag and flaw?

Flag


Definition:

  • (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.

Flaw


Definition:

  • (n.) A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
  • (n.) A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.
  • (n.) A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
  • (n.) A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
  • (v. t.) To crack; to make flaws in.
  • (v. t.) To break; to violate; to make of no effect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (2) Its experiments are so hopelessly flawed that the results are meaningless."
  • (3) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
  • (4) I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered.
  • (5) In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
  • (6) We conclude that individual case review can be severely flawed and therefore should not be used to measure institutional quality of patient care.
  • (7) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
  • (8) The council offered him a tea urn | Frances Ryan Read more Government attempts to decrease the disproportionately high levels of unemployment among disabled people have had little impact, the report notes, while notorious “fit-for-work” tests were riven with flaws.
  • (9) Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said he was "outraged" by what he described as the administration's "deeply flawed analysis and what can only be interpreted as lip service to one of the greatest threats to our children's future: climate disruption".
  • (10) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
  • (11) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
  • (12) The system was "flawed" and the rules were "vague".
  • (13) Most of the 138 studies contained serious flaws in research design, such as lack of control subjects, unspecified manner of data collection, and absence of diagnostic criteria.
  • (14) Poor crossing undermined Liverpool in the first leg, Klopp had claimed, but the flaw was remedied quickly in the return.
  • (15) A variety of quality tests, of biomechanical screws, are used, before performing the operations, that flaws may be detected.
  • (16) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
  • (17) Flaws in the design, execution and analysis of randomized clinical trials have been eliminated gradually over the past 35 years.
  • (18) A report released on Wednesday said Prevent was badly flawed , potentially counterproductive and risked trampling on the basic rights of young Muslims.
  • (19) A flawed heroine of the anti-apartheid struggle, she is unlikely to keep a low profile in the coming days or to bite her lip if she believes Mandela's memory is being betrayed.
  • (20) Considerable scholarly exertion has gone into describing the flaws in each count.