transcription, транскрипция: [ flæg ]
( flags, flagging, flagged)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A flag is a piece of cloth which can be attached to a pole and which is used as a sign, signal, or symbol of something, especially of a particular country.
The Marines climbed to the roof of the embassy building to raise the American flag...
They had raised the white flag in surrender.
N-COUNT
2.
Journalists sometimes refer to the flag of a particular country or organization as a way of referring to the country or organization itself and its values or power.
Joining John Whitaker will be his brother Michael also riding under the British flag...
N-COUNT : with supp , usu adj N , N of n
3.
If you flag or if your spirits flag , you begin to lose enthusiasm or energy.
His enthusiasm was in no way flagging...
By 4,000m he was beginning to flag.
VERB : V , V
4.
see also flagged
5.
If you fly the flag , you show that you are proud of your country, or that you support a particular cause, especially when you are in a foreign country or when few other people do.
PHRASE : V inflects