Word Finder - flags

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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.

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To weaken, become feeble.

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His strength flagged toward the end of the race.

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To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.

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To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.

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to flag the wings

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To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.

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Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.

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A slice of turf; a sod.

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A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.

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Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.

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To pave with flagstones.

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Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.

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A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.

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A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

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The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.

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A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value

Article 5 provides that they are " neutralized for ever and their free navigation is guaranteed to the flags of all nations.

From wild rides to water slides, Six Flags New England has it all.

Never gave it a thought until Emma mentioned your opponent was all gussied up in flags and balloons.

From all the windows of the streets through which he rode, rugs, flags, and his monogram were displayed, and the Polish ladies, welcoming him, waved their handkerchiefs to him.

There are several Six Flags theme park locations in the northeastern states, including parks in Maryland, New Jersey, and New York, but only the Springfield, Massachusetts park is officially known as Six Flags New England.

With more than 30 rides and numerous shows and events to entertain every member of the family, this Six Flags, MA park has something for everyone.

From mild thrills to wild coasters, Six Flags New England offers a range of fun rides for all ages.

Guests interested in wild fun without wild rides can enjoy the numerous shows and events at Six Flags, MA.

In addition to regular shows, Six Flags New England also hosts special events, including concerts and charity events.

Six Flags New England is also home to Hurricane Harbor, an integrated water park with more than a dozen fantastic water slides to enjoy.

To properly plan a visit to Six Flags New England, guests should understand what admission options are available and how to get more information to plan their perfect theme park getaway.

Tickets for this Six Flags park are $42 for adults or $31 for guests under 54 inches tall.

Also double check to be sure the coupon is valid at the right park - a generic "Six Flags" coupon, for example, may not be valid at all the different Six Flags theme park locations.

Six Flags Magic Mountain where you can experience some of the greatest thrill rides that amusement parks have to offer.

Six Flags Magic Mountain also puts on great shows utilizing DC Superheroes and characters from the WB Kids' Club.

Investigating different Six Flags Over Georgia discounts can help guests enjoy this popular Atlanta theme park no matter what their budget.

This is even an even better deal for guests who plan to visit multiple parks, because a Six Flags season pass is valid at more than a dozen Six Flags theme park locations all season long.

Depending on when you can visit the park and what offers are available at that time, you may find that there are no Six Flags Over Georgia discounts that apply to you.

It builds a rude nest among the reeds and flags, out of the materials which surround it, and the female lays four or five eggs of a brownish olive.

To the last he loved to draw his illustrations of sacred things from camps and fortresses, from guns, drums, trumpets, flags of truce, and regiments arrayed each under its own banner.

Many Six Flags guests enjoy the shorter lines available with the Flash Pass, but if you plan your visit for a less crowded day you can skip this added expense and still enjoy all your favorite attractions.

On-ride photos, items with the Six Flags logo, and ride-specific merchandise are the most expensive types of park souvenirs.

Six Flags Magic Mountain is the self-titled roller coaster capital of the west coast with more than 16 open roller coaster rides.

The park occupies more than 250 acres of land and the nearby Six Flags Hurricane Harbor makes the combination an ideal summer escape for the water rides and popular Six Flags magic.

Must of the merchandise and passengers bound for and hailing from foreign ports sail under foreign flags.

American ships were fraudulently transferred to neutral flags.

Since 1871 Bavaria has shared to the full in the marvellous development of Germany; but her "particularism," founded on traditional racial and religious antagonism to the Prussians, was by no means dead, though it exhibited itself in no more dangerous form than the prohibition, reissued in 1900, to display any but the Bavarian flag on public buildings on the emperor's birthday; a provision which has been since so far modified as to allow the Bavarian and imperial flags to be hung side by side.

Nor was it accessible to any description of wheeled carriages, and the nature of its pavement, composed of broad flags of travertine, shows that it was only intended for foot-passengers.

That there might be no doubt of the friendly feeling of the French to the Porte, villages and towns which capitulated to the invaders were required to hoist the flags of both the Porte and the French republic, and in the thanksgiving prescribed to the Egyptians for their deliverance from the Mamelukes, prayer was to be offered for both the sultan and the French army.

According to that agreement the British and Egyptian flags are used together, and the supreme military and civil command is vested in a governor-general, who is appointed by the khedive on the recom The mendation of the British government, and who cannot Anglo- be removed without the British governments con Egyptian sent.

He arranged with Marchand to leave the political question to be settled by diplomacy, and contented himself with hoisting the British and Egyptian flags to the south of the French flag, and leaving a gunboat and a Sudanese battalion to guard them.

For pace and endurance no hunter approaches the English thoroughbred; and for a bold man who "means going," a steeplechase horse is often the best animal that could be obtained, for when he has become too slow to win races "between the flags," he can always gallop much faster, and usually lasts much longer, than animals who have not his advantage of blood.

Prison labour has found an outlet, therefore, in such work as service blanket making, hammock making, mail-bag making, the manufacture of cartridge cases, flags, chopping firewood for barracks and so on, having been diverted almost entirely from mat-making, once an exclusive prison trade originally invented indeed by prison task-masters.

Then, on the st Shawwal (15th June 747), the first solemn meeting took place and the black flags were unfolded.

One of the flags bore the image of a man, without moustaches or beard, dressed in a costume and helmet recalling those of the Circassians.

The table at the commencement of page 605 shows the total tonnage of vessels entered from and cleared to British possessions and foreign countries at ports in the United Kingdom, and also the nationality of vessels under British and the principal foreign flags.

For these passages are not, like many to be found from the Renaissance to the end of the 18th century, obvious flags of truce to cover attacks - mere bowings in the house of Rimmon to prevent evil consequences.

In 1818 Casilda was opened to legal commerce under the national and foreign flags.

It is thus used not only of the putting on of clothing, but of the preparing and finishing of leather, the preparation of food for eating, the application of cleansing and healing substances or of bandages, &c., to a wound, the drawing up in a correct line of a body of troops, and, generally, adorning or decking out, as of a ship with flags.

There are resident consuls of all the principal powers, and the port is well served by coasting steamers under European and Ottoman flags.

The old river then became emptied and its bed was raised and, to prevent further erosion and washing away of the soil and a consequent fall of the river, was paved with huge flags.

Fitzgerald's entry was a flat trailer, pulled by a Jeep, bedecked with appropriate flags and bunting while a tiny speaker blared America the Beautiful.

On top of the hill is a huge metal crucifix and four fluttering flags.

A view looking along the rows of places laid out for dinner, with flags draped round the room over the tables.

It is a way of handling exceptions without having to propagate flags up through multiple levels of nesting.

These are difficult people to deal with, they're the people who march in the church parade carrying the red flags.

If yellow flags are on, you will not be able to turn around.

The children came at 3 with flags &c, and singing and in great glee.

Alas a last-lap shoot-out was denied spectators, red flags coming out to bring proceedings to a premature halt.

Bits of rope being threaded, fittings screwed on, ballast heaved aboard, vacuum cleaner going, flags hoisted.