(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.
Slag
Definition:
(v. t.) The dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders.
(v. t.) The scoria of a volcano.
Example Sentences:
(1) I don't want to go on slagging groups like U2 or Simple Minds that aren't worth the words.
(2) In the Netherlands both Portland cement and blast furnace cement (slags from blast furnaces with about 30% Portland cement) are used for concrete.
(3) Meanwhile the Police Federation's attempts to extract retribution for the disputed p-word, in the form of Andrew Mitchell's sacking, have been roundly slagged off by former Labour minister Chris Mullin , who last week described the organisation as "a bully", "a bunch of headbangers" and "a mighty vested interest that has seen off just about all attempts to reform the least reformed part of the public service".
(4) As Miliband prepared to deliver his speech, whose contents were trailed over the weekend in an interview with the Mail on Sunday , Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London, rounded on politicians who are "slagging off" a sector that is "crucial to the British economy".
(5) Mineral wool insulation, which is made from Tennessee phosphate slag, and commonly used insulation, which is made from blast furnace slag, had similar concentrations of these radionuclides.
(6) Quantities of land-disposed or stored residuals, including slags, sludges, and dusts, are given per unit of metal production for most primary and secondary metal smelting and refining industries.
(7) However, this hazard is not associated with any index of exposure to slag wool itself.
(8) Relatively thick rock and ceramic fibres (median greater than 1 micron) induced tumours, but slag and wollastonite fibres did not, probably because of their better solubility.
(9) The radioactivity levels of coal ash and slag in Hong Kong are about the average values in other countries.
(10) The US president might be all mouth in slagging off the Russians behind their backs, but Vlad was confident he was no trousers face to face.
(11) Long-term inhalation studies using several animal species and dust preparations of fibrous glass, rock wool or slag wool have produced little evidence of pulmonary fibrosis or pulmonary tumors.
(12) Mr Cameron can hardly slag off Mr Clegg as "not fit for government" when they will have spent five years sitting in the same cabinet.
(13) Who cares?” tweeted former congressman Anthony Weiner, and slagged off Philadelphia as a “2nd tier city”: Anthony Weiner (@anthonyweiner) Honestly, who cares?
(14) Concrete blocks made with phosphate slag had enhanced 226Ra and 228Ra contents when compared to ordinary concrete block.
(15) The present study is concerned with the pulmonary pathological changes in the rats following intra-tracheal administration of sintering dust and vanadium slag separately.
(16) Now I'd love to stay and chat all night, but unfortunately I have to correct all the typos in this report, insert gags where appropriate and remove all the bits where I slagged off Steven Gerrard, who is about to lift the Champions League trophy for Liverpool.
(17) Something sticks in the throat about having the word “lad” associated with a rapist, or an abuser, or even someone who might see fit to call me a slag.
(18) 2.09pm GMT In an unusual turn of fate, the front-page headline in today’s Bild is basically “Guardian live blogger slags off German Olympic uniform”.
(19) I have lost count of the number of times I have been called a slag for refusing to accept a man's advances or to respond to street harassment.
(20) This is a band that doesn't want to be slagging off the biggest pop station in the country.