tagger en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From tag + -er.
Meanings
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One who or that which tags. ▸ The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
The teacher then calls on each one of the tagged to identify his tagger. If a student cannot guess correctly, he must sit down.
1989, Francis Edward Abernethy, Texas Toys and Games, page 111:
- One who or that which tags. ▸ A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
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One who or that which tags. ▸ A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to songs in a music collection.
To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 109:
- A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
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That which is pointed like a tag.
hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers
1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| taggers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (1)
fr tagueur (person who writes graffiti)