transcription, транскрипция: [ bæg ]
( bags)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A bag is a container made of thin paper or plastic, for example one that is used in shops to put things in that a customer has bought.
N-COUNT
•
A bag of things is the amount of things contained in a bag.
N-COUNT : usu N of n
2.
A bag is a strong container with one or two handles, used to carry things in.
She left the hotel carrying a shopping bag.
N-COUNT
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A bag of things is the amount of things contained in a bag.
N-COUNT : usu N of n
3.
A bag is the same as a handbag .
N-COUNT
4.
If you have bags under your eyes, you have folds of skin there, usually because you have not had enough sleep.
N-PLURAL
5.
If you say there is bags of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it. If you say that there are bags of things, you mean that there are a large number of them. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
...a hotel with bags of character.
= heaps of
QUANT : QUANT of pl-n / n-uncount [ emphasis ]
6.
see also bum bag , carrier bag , mixed bag , shoulder-bag , sleeping bag , tea bag
7.
If you say that something is in the bag , you mean that you are certain that you will get it or achieve it. ( INFORMAL )
‘I’ll get the Republican nomination,’ he assured me. ‘It’s in the bag.’
PHRASE : usu v-link PHR
8.
to let the cat out of the bag: see cat