Word Finder - flag

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A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.

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An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).

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A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.

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(often used attributively) A signal flag.

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The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.

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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.

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In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.

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A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.

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The game of capture the flag.

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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.

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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.

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To furnish or deck out with flags.

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To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.

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(often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.

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Please flag down a taxi for me.

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To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.

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to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance

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(often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.

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I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.

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To signal (an event).

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The compiler flagged three errors.

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To set a program variable to true.

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Flag the debug option before running the program.

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To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.

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To penalize for an infraction.

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The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.

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To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.

A small Colombian flag was neatly tucked in his open mouth.

Still, it was a red flag to what could have happened.

She placed the letter inside and lifted the flag.

The people seemed to regard the American flag as the harbinger of a new era.

That's the whole agenda; just rally 'round the flag, boys, chin held high.

A few of the medicinal plants are ginseng, pleurisy root, snake root, blood root, blue flag and marshmallow.

When the bitter truth was at length realized, the British flag was dragged through the dust of Pretoria streets by outraged Englishmen.

A few days later, he received at this camp the British, French and Italian admirals, who came under a flag of truce to negotiate a settlement between the insurgents and the Turks.

The flag of the United States was raised over Santa Cruz in July 1846.

The ages were not dark in which Christianity could gather itself together in a common cause, and carry the flag of its faith to the grave of its Redeemer; nor can we but give thanks for their memory, even if for us religion is of the spirit, and Jerusalem in the heart of every man who believes in Christ.

No harbour or light dues are charged to vessels of any flag.

Collect medals and get your puppy to the red flag in each level.

Standing at the mailbox, it occurred to her that the red flag would be exactly that for Yancey.

See Flag.

A majority of the ports, from which these roads are built, are small and difficult of access, and the coasting trade is restricted to vessels carrying the Brazilian flag.

During this movement the "Prince" (100) carrying the flag of Admiral Sir Robert Ayscue, ran on the Galloper Sand, and was lost.

His naval officers insisted on making prize of all Dutch-built vessels found under the English flag.

The German squadron consisted of the armoured cruisers " Scharnhorst " (flag) and " Gneisenau " (both 1908, 11,420 tons, 8 8-in., 6 5.9-in., 202 knots) and the light cruisers " Leipzig " (1906, 3,200 tons, io 4.1-in., 20 knots), " Nurnberg " (1908, 3,39 6 tons, 10 4.1-in., 22 knots) and " Dresden " (1908, 3,544 tons, 12 4.1-in., 25 knots).

The " Nurnberg " ceased firing for several minutes to allow her to surrender, then gave her a final broadside, and she went down at half-past nine with flag flying.

On the outbreak of the war of Greek independence refugees from Chios, after being scattered throughout Tenos, Spezia, Hydra, &c., and rejected by the people of Ceos, took up their residence at Syra under the protection of the French flag.

Jackson, a hotel proprietor, from whose building Ellsworth had removed a Confederate flag.

A new treaty was made, and the British flag flew over the capital, while the French party were given a proportion of chiefships and assigned the province of Buddu.

In December 1654 Penn and Venables sailed for the West Indies with orders to attack the Spanish colonies and the French shipping; and for the first time since the Plantagenets an English fleet appeared in the Mediterranean, where Blake upheld the supremacy of the English flag, made a treaty with the dey of Algiers, destroyed the castles and ships of the dey of Tunis at Porto Farina on the 4th of April 1655, and liberated the English prisoners captured by the pirates.

From Cape Town it was now hinted that the movement in which Jameson was to co-operate should, in Rhodes's view, be carried out under the British flag.

The English flag was flown side by side with the Neapolitan, and England actually renewed war with France sooner than give up Malta.

The same day he charged his fellow-citizens to keep the national flag flying on their houses.

On the 12th of May 1652 an English officer, Captain Young, stopped a Dutch convoy near the Start in order to enforce the salute to the English flag, which England then demanded from all who used the seas round her coast.

Sandwich, who had taken some prizes, unlawfully seized part of their cargoes for the benefit of himself and the other flag officers.

The two admirals engaged in a species of personal conflict, and each was compelled to shift his flag to another vessel.

He replied saying he would come if all the expenses were guaranteed and the British flag accepted.

He added also to their chiefships, and on the 1st of April hoisted the British flag, made a new treaty with Mwanga, and sent Major Roderick Owen to enlist 400 Sudanese from the Toro colonies.

To Germany were assigned all the territory and islands to the north of the British boundary under the name of Kaiser Wilhelms Land, while all to the west of the 141st meridian remained under its old flag as Dutch New Guinea.

Through some misunderstanding, he reported on his return that the count had accepted all the terms offered, including the retention of the tricolour flag; and the count published a formal denial.

The defenders of Los Angeles fled at the approach of the troops, and on the 13th of August 1846 the American flag was raised over the city.

In 1775 he attained his flag rank, and in 1778 became a vice-admiral.

In June 1874 he was appointed to the command of the "Monarch" in the Channel Fleet, from which he was relieved in March 1876 by his promotion to flag rank.

This he did at the end of 1597, after a vain attempt to find asylum under his country's flag' in Newfoundland.

Blue flag, snake root, ginseng, lobelia, tansy, wormwood, wintergreen, pleurisy root, plantain, burdock, sarsaparilla and horehound are among its medicinal plants.

She continued naval operations and occupied all Turkish islands not under the Italian flag; and on Jan.

The Committee was all-powerful in the Government, and a small group of leaders - Enver, Talaat, Djemal Pasha and others, supported by the presence at Constantinople of two German warships, the "Goeben" and "Breslau," were able to commit the country to hostilities, by the bombardment of Russian Black Sea ports by these vessels under the Turkish flag.

A convention recognizing the independence of the country was signed at Bloemfontein on the 23rd of February by Sir George Clerk and the republican committee, and on the r 1 th of March the Boer government assumed office and the republican flag was hoisted.

Kruger came to Boshof's camp with a flag of truce, the " army " of Pretorius returned north and on the 2nd of June a treaty of peace was signed, each state acknowledging the absolute independence of the other.

Poland retained its flag, and a national army based on that which had been raised by and had fought for Napoleon.

In the War of 1812 Frederick, Havre de Grace, and Frenchtown were burned by the British; but particularly noteworthy were the unsuccessful movements of the enemy by land and by sea against Baltimore, in which General Robert Ross (c. 1766-1814), the British commander of the land force, was killed before anything had been accomplished and the failure of the fleet to take Fort McHenry after a siege of a day and a night inspired the song The Star-spangled Banner, composed by Francis Scott Key who had gone under a flag of truce to secure from General Ross the release of a friend held as a prisoner by the British and during the attack was detained on his vessel within the British lines.

It needed a second insult - the firing on " La Provence," a vessel carrying a flag of truce, in the harbour of Algiers (August 3, 1829) - to spur the French government to further action than an ineffectual blockade.

The natives gained some successes, and it became necessary to avenge the honour of the flag.

The coastwise trade is principally under the Mexican flag, but the steamers are owned abroad.

The Aztec numerals, which were vigesimal or reckoned by scores, were depicted by dots or circles up to 20, which was represented by a flag, 400 (a score of scores) by a feather, and 8000 (a score of scores of scores) by a purse; but for convenience these symbols might be halved and quartered, so that 534 might be shown by one feather, one quarter of a feather, one flag, one-half of a flag, and four dots.

By 1864 the proportion had fallen to 27.5%, and except for a temporary slight recovery after the close of the war there has been a steady progress downward since that time, until in 1908 only 9.8% of the commerce of the country was carried on under its own flag.

Probably there was as much foundation for this legend as for the more rationalistic explanation of William Newton (Display of Heraldry, p. 145), that the fleur-de-lis was the figure of a reed or flag in blossom, used instead of a sceptre at the proclamation of the Frankish kings.