What's the difference between graffiti and tagger?

Graffiti


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.
  • (3) Gaddafi's residence, now gutted and covered with graffiti, was also targeted in a US bombing raid in April 1986, after Washington held Libya responsible for a blast at a Berlin disco that killed two American servicemen.
  • (4) The matter of clothing is closely related to another of Wimbledon’s quiet triumphs: the almost total lack of corporate graffiti in the form of logos and advertising.
  • (5) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (6) And just to avoid confusion, the word GREY is also my current graffiti tag.
  • (7) "If you stand in the street, you face problems; because of this I started a new style of graffiti.
  • (8) We love you.” Another starts: “Dear Polish friends, we wanted to let you know how very sorry we are to hear about the abusive messages graffitied on to your building.
  • (9) Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris has put up with a lot in its first century - the flying angel headstone has been castrated (twice), commemorative candles have scorched the front, and multilingual graffiti are regularly scrawled over the tomb.
  • (10) Anger towards the government is also apparent in political graffiti , popping up around Yerevan.
  • (11) Qassem is one of a small band of graffiti artists in the Afghan capital who, encouraged by a group of western "art activists", are set on bringing tagging, wall-painting and graphic stencils to public spaces across the city.
  • (12) Photograph: Luana Kaderabek Saysell was confronted by some of his harshest critics, including several convicted artists, during a graffiti conference on the South Bank in London earlier this month.
  • (13) It was our moment to make our point by subverting the message using the show itself.” In an early meeting with the production team, they were, the statement claims, handed images of “pro-Assad graffiti – apparently natural in a Syrian refugee camp”.
  • (14) The mission is awaiting a restoration specialist to arrive from Britain with the historically appropriate paints for the 19th-century decor to blot out the graffiti.
  • (15) The longest stretch can be found at the Eastside Gallery in Friedrichshain, though the paintings and graffiti here were added as recently as 2009.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Detective Constable Colin Saysell talks at the graffiti sessions at London’s South Bank Centre.
  • (17) There's a similar double-standard within graffiti art.
  • (18) · He edited American Graffiti, The Conversation, The Godfather parts I to III, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley and many more.
  • (19) They arrived in a black Camaro with Dare (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) scrawled on its side in blazing faux graffiti, one officer explaining how his department had seized it from a drug dealer.
  • (20) Eighteen months ago the group sprayed designs inspired by the British graffiti artist Banksy on walls of ostentatious new houses believed to have been built with the profits of the £3bn a year Afghan drug trade.

Tagger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.
  • (n.) That which is pointed like a tag.
  • (n.) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.
  • (n.) A device for removing taglocks from sheep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At a time when 1970s subway taggers are flown to Paris to mark up Louis Vuitton stores, Banksy is criticized for making money.
  • (2) But when sentencing London tagger Daniel “Tox” Halpin to a 27-month jail sentence in 2011, the prosecutor told the jury: “He is no Banksy.
  • (3) I just flipped the dynamic: now the audience at home are my friends and the people who’ve come to see me are these taggers-on.
  • (4) The Tagger et alii technique was used for root canal filling and root resorption area.
  • (5) Graffiti artists in Bogotá are often even commissioned by shops or buildings to paint murals on their walls before taggers scrawl all over them.
  • (6) I've met Kristian on numerous occasions and I know him as a tagger, or what we'd call a bomber.
  • (7) I will be taking up offers for lessons from NYC and Cairo taggers, and next time take a stencil with me.