tagger

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtæɡə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

tag +‎ -er

Noun

tagger (plural taggers)

  1. One who or that which tags.
    1. The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
      • 1989, Francis Edward Abernethy, Texas Toys and Games, page 111:
        The teacher then calls on each one of the tagged to identify his tagger. If a student cannot guess correctly, he must sit down.
    2. A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
    3. (computing theory) 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.
      • 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:
        To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger.
  2. A device for removing taglocks from sheep.[1]
  3. That which is pointed like a tag.
    • 1689, Charles Cotton, Burlesque:
      hedgehogs' or porcupines' small taggers
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Variant of tadger?”)

Noun

tagger (plural taggers)

  1. (slang) The penis.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tagger (plural taggers)

  1. (in the plural) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.[2]

References
  1. Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Tagger”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
  2. Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Tagger”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

Anagrams

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ta.ɡe/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

tagger

  1. (graffiti) to tag
  2. to tag (label)
    tagger quelqu’un sur Facebook ― tag someone on Facebook

Conjugation
Conjugation of tagger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple tagger
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple taggant
/ta.ɡɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle taggé
/ta.ɡe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present tagge
/taɡ/		 tagges
/taɡ/		 tagge
/taɡ/		 taggons
/ta.ɡɔ̃/		 taggez
/ta.ɡe/		 taggent
/taɡ/
imperfect taggais
/ta.ɡɛ/		 taggais
/ta.ɡɛ/		 taggait
/ta.ɡɛ/		 taggions
/ta.ɡjɔ̃/		 taggiez
/ta.ɡje/		 taggaient
/ta.ɡɛ/
past historic2 taggai
/ta.ɡe/		 taggas
/ta.ɡa/		 tagga
/ta.ɡa/		 taggâmes
/ta.ɡam/		 taggâtes
/ta.ɡat/		 taggèrent
/ta.ɡɛʁ/
future taggerai
/ta.ɡʁe/		 taggeras
/ta.ɡʁa/		 taggera
/ta.ɡʁa/		 taggerons
/ta.ɡʁɔ̃/		 taggerez
/ta.ɡʁe/		 taggeront
/ta.ɡʁɔ̃/
conditional taggerais
/ta.ɡʁɛ/		 taggerais
/ta.ɡʁɛ/		 taggerait
/ta.ɡʁɛ/		 taggerions
/ta.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/		 taggeriez
/ta.ɡə.ʁje/		 taggeraient
/ta.ɡʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present tagge
/taɡ/		 tagges
/taɡ/		 tagge
/taɡ/		 taggions
/ta.ɡjɔ̃/		 taggiez
/ta.ɡje/		 taggent
/taɡ/
imperfect2 taggasse
/ta.ɡas/		 taggasses
/ta.ɡas/		 taggât
/ta.ɡa/		 taggassions
/ta.ɡa.sjɔ̃/		 taggassiez
/ta.ɡa.sje/		 taggassent
/ta.ɡas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — tagge
/taɡ/		 — taggons
/ta.ɡɔ̃/		 taggez
/ta.ɡe/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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