What's the difference between tag and tax?

Tag


Definition:

  • (n.) Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
  • (n.) A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
  • (n.) The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
  • (n.) Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
  • (n.) A sheep of the first year.
  • (n.) A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.
  • (v. t.) To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
  • (v. t.) To join; to fasten; to attach.
  • (v. t.) To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
  • (v. i.) To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
  • (v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In general, optimal DAGAT activity in vitro was observed when long-chain unsaturated acyl-CoAs and diacylglycerols (DAGs) containing long acyl chains were used as substrates for in vitro TAG synthesis (although 1,2-didecanoin was also very effective).
  • (2) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
  • (3) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (4) Nuclear pores were frequently tagged after estradiol treatment.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
  • (7) Genetic relations of skin tags, colon polyps, and colon cancer are a matter of ongoing research.
  • (8) Here we describe the cloning of da by the transposon tagging approach as well as some aspects of the molecular characterization of wild-type and mutant alleles.
  • (9) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
  • (10) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
  • (11) This is a report on our experience with the EPICS C (Coultronics) cytometric flux apparatus, a screening cell analyzer, employing a laser ray (2 or 5 watts); we obtained good results to analyze immunologically-tagged mononuclear blood cells with or without prior separation: for rhythm, repeatability, and contamination.
  • (12) Monoclonal antibodies tagged with chelated metal ions have numerous potential applications.
  • (13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
  • (14) The recurrent cases were found to be caused by adhesion bands produced by hanging tags of incompletely removed yellow ligament.
  • (15) Bolus tracking, flow enhancement by spin replacement, and selective tagging are three classes of methods being pursued for MR angiography.
  • (16) We evaluated 109 women with endometrial carcinoma to determine the accuracy of preoperative tumor-associated antigen levels (CA 125, CA 72, CA 15-3) for prediction of extrauterine disease and whether TAG 72, CA 15-3, or both would improve the predictive value of CA 125 alone.
  • (17) The duration of S phase was unaffected by Tag expression.
  • (18) Although more than one vector can be utilized, only a library of fragments cloned into any single phage, phagemid or plasmid vector is actually required, together with a set of tagged oligonucleotide primers.
  • (19) The results also showed that Tag treated fruits developed their internal and external coloration normally, whereas mangos with Falvorseal coating did not develop their external coloration nor their red internal coloration.
  • (20) In addition, nonheme iron absorption from a test meal of the respective beef pattie consumed for the 180 days was estimated by the extrinsic tag procedure.

Tax


Definition:

  • (n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
  • (n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
  • (n.) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
  • (n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
  • (n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
  • (n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
  • (n.) Charge; censure.
  • (n.) A lesson to be learned; a task.
  • (n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
  • (n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
  • (n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
  • (2) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (3) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (4) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (5) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
  • (6) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
  • (7) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (8) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (9) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
  • (10) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (11) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
  • (12) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
  • (13) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
  • (14) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
  • (15) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
  • (16) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
  • (17) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
  • (18) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
  • (19) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
  • (20) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.

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