{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "flæg" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/flag.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/flag.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/flag.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English flag, flagge (“flag”), further etymology uncertain. Perhaps from or related to early Middle English flage (name for a baby's garment) and Old English flagg, flacg (“cataplasm, poultice, plaster”). Or, perhaps ultimately imitative, or otherwise drawn from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), referring to the shape.\nGermanic cognates include Saterland Frisian Flaage (“flag”), West Frisian flagge (“flag”), Dutch vlag (“flag”), German Flagge (“flag”), Swedish flagg (“flag”), Danish flag (“flag, ship's flag”). Compare also Middle English flacken (“to flutter, palpitate”), Swedish dialectal flage (“to flutter in the wind”), Old Norse flögra (“to flap about”). Akin to Old High German flogarōn (“to flutter”), Old High German flogezen (“to flutter, flicker”), Middle English flakeren (“to move quickly to and fro”), Old English flacor (“fluttering, flying”). More at flack, flacker.\n\n13 star flag of the United States, the first official flag of the United States, commonly believed to be designed by upholsterer Betsy Ross.", "Perhaps from a variant of flack (“to hang loose”), from Middle English flacken; or perhaps from Old Norse. Compare Middle Dutch flaggheren, vlaggheren (“to droop, flag”).", "Of uncertain origin, perhaps from North Germanic; compare Danish flæg (“yellow iris”). Or, possibly from sense 1, referring to its motion in the wind. Compare also Dutch vlag.", "Probably of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; compare Icelandic flag.", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol." }, { "mean": "An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites)." }, { "mean": "(nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship." }, { "mean": "(nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag." }, { "mean": "The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event." }, { "mean": "(computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place." }, { "mean": "(computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked." }, { "mean": "(aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction." }, { "mean": "(Britain, uncountable) The game of capture the flag." }, { "mean": "(geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face." }, { "mean": "(mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next." }, { "mean": "(television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light." }, { "mean": "(UK, archaic, slang) An apron." }, { "mean": "(Internet slang, ACG) A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.\ndeath flag\nraise the heroine's flags (in a galge)" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To furnish or deck out with flags." }, { "mean": "To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something." }, { "mean": "(often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.\nPlease flag down a taxi for me." }, { "mean": "To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.\nto flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance" }, { "mean": "(often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.\nI've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.\nUsers of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate." }, { "mean": "(computing) To signal (an event).\nThe compiler flagged three errors." }, { "mean": "(computing) To set a program variable to true.\nFlag the debug option before running the program." }, { "mean": "To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity." }, { "mean": "(sports) To penalize for an infraction.\nThe defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct." }, { "mean": "(chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; 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