What's the difference between flag and masthead?

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.

Masthead


Definition:

  • (n.) The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.
  • (v. t.) To cause to go to the masthead as a punishment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It could be a melancholic experience, reflecting the state of the left in general – clipping off the mastheads at the end of the week of all the unsold copies of Weekly Worker , International Communist Current and Lalkar , making odd smelling vegan drinks for the older members of the co-op, ringing up a number left by someone who'd ordered Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus to tell them their book had arrived and finding that it had been ordered by a person now deceased.
  • (2) The title will simply be called the Sun, with an identical masthead to the daily, and insiders have been at pains to make it clear that the newspaper is not a "Sun on Sunday" – but instead simply a Sunday edition of the newspaper that will have some "specialist staff" but without its own editor.
  • (3) The only News Corp heritage masthead to rank in the top 10 is the Herald Sun, although news.com.au is No.
  • (4) The continued sniping between Rinehart and the board comes after three weeks of major upheavals at Fairfax, during which the company announced it was cutting 1,900 jobs, converting its two flagship mastheads from broadsheets to tabloids, and closing its two main printing presses.
  • (5) I have been increasingly uncomfortable with the “drawbridges” rhetoric on immigration of the far right, and was horrified to see similar suggestions on leaflets under Labour party mastheads.
  • (6) Many quoted Evelyn Beatrice Hall’s expression of Voltaire’s beliefs: “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.’’ When the Charlie Hebdo website , which was down for much of the day, came back online it carried the phrase Je Suis Charlie in bold letters, with Charlie written in the font of the publication’s masthead.
  • (7) A final question mark as to that goal perhaps comes from the diversity of otherwise of the site’s masthead.
  • (8) The newspaper costs 50p and the masthead describes it as “The newspaper that supports an independent Scotland”.
  • (9) However, Fairfax Media and some News Corp mastheads do not generally link to other news sources, while the Daily Mail and Guardian Australia do.
  • (10) DMA will be contacting News Corp after discovering repeated examples of stories and pictures being taken from MailOnline in recent weeks, without proper attribution or internet linking.” A News Corp Australia spokesman said: "We stand by the fact that we believe the Daily Mail Australia is breaching our copyright by lifting substantial slabs of original content from a large number of articles from our mastheads."
  • (11) The company's Australian mastheads include The Australian, the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph.
  • (12) The working title on last weekend's dummy was "Sunday" and broke with the conventional "redtop" format for popular tabloids with a yellow and white masthead.
  • (13) A News Corp spokesman said: "We have taken this action because we believe the Daily Mail Australia is breaching our copyright by lifting substantial slabs of original content from a large number of articles from our mastheads."
  • (14) To run all this he has established a brand management business, employing dozens of people: a TV production company through which he controls both the product and the fees, a production line for the books, a collection of branded foods and cooking implements, the Jamie's Italian brand of mid-market restaurants, even a magazine with his name on the masthead, à la Oprah.
  • (15) The program has demonstrably failed to apply the same ‘recognised standards of objective journalism’ to which it is bound by statute and which it expects of the media each week.” In the interview, Mitchell was as open as he has ever been about the newspaper’s financial status, conceding that the masthead was not profitable and had not been so since 2008.
  • (16) By having our journalists and contributors feature with prominence in our campaign and [TV commercials], we are effectively communicating the core of what we offer readers.” A News Corp Australia spokesman told Guardian Australia: “Among other things, the campaign highlights that our mastheads deliver outstanding local news coverage.
  • (17) Cleveland was founded in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland; the spelling changed in 1831 when the “a” was dropped to fit the city’s name on a newspaper masthead.
  • (18) At the heart of the changes, which will see the return of "London" to the paper's masthead, is a change of tone that will emphasise the positive and move away from what Greig and, he says, readers saw as a relentlessly negative tone.
  • (19) The letter sent to retailers showing The National’s masthead.
  • (20) At First Look, behind-the-scenes Laura Poitras is one of two main female names on a virtual masthead that just added John Cook from Gawker ( to run Greenwald’s magazine ) to join Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone ( to lead his own ).