I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dog tag
electronic tagging
name tag
play catch/house/tag/school etc
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Outside, the children were playing cowboys and Indians.
price tag
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It’s difficult to put a price tag on such a project say how much it costs .
put...price tag on (= say how much it costs )
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It’s difficult to put a price tag on such a project .
question tag
tag question
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
identity
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ISPs do this by giving your computer an identity tag .
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It's a microchip which, when inserted into some part of the chair, will act like an electronic identity tag .
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Harvey took off his identity tag and inserted it into a machine like a railway station weighing machine upon which he stepped.
name
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This is why it is essential that they should wear a collar with a name tag attached at all times.
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Her name , Beulah, is printed in green ink on a heart-shaped name tag .
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I see Gloria dealing with a party of women with name tags .
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There was no name tag in the oblong strip next to the button but that wasn't unusual.
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The kids, all wearing name tags , run around us.
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Staff name tags have already helped, along with the hospital watch scheme.
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She is brown and white and has a brown collar but no name tag .
price
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There was a price tag on the mast.
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The mood is similar, somewhere between awe of their opponents and their colossal price tags and the usual infectious optimism.
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For people with game tickets, Golden Sports knocks $ 1, 000 off the price tag .
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Despite the massive price tag , it shouldn't take Becks long to raise the cash.
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He tried to lure Wallace back last year but was frightened off by a £1m price tag .
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What is the price tag for keeping decent, nonviolent people from having to commit the very act that Davis committed?
question
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Dubois and Crouch, for instance, tested the hypothesis that women use more tag questions than men.
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The tag question thus contains, in part, a repetition of some of the information found in the main sentence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do we have to wear these name tags?
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During one game I accidentally scored against my own side and acquired the tag "wrong way" Jones.
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I can't find a price tag on it anywhere.
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I didn't blame her for hating the "mayor's ex-girlfriend" tag .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A sequence of grammatical tags in the corpus is taken and split into pairs and triples.
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Additional items such as colour, indentation and tabs can also be attached to the tag .
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Harvey took off his identity tag and inserted it into a machine like a railway station weighing machine upon which he stepped.
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Little girls played tag and stoop-ball, hopscotch, skipped rope; big girls sat under the pine tree and whispered.
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The judge also prohibited the Motor Vehicle Administration from recalling the specialty tags.
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The Navy also wants 12 new attack submarines with a price tag of $ 17. 6 billion.
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This enables you to replace text or tags and cut out a lot of painstaking monkey work when revamping your site.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
along
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Another was J John, the evangelical preacher, who tagged along whenever Justin had business with the Press.
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One of those do-nothing political conferences-the party was paying-and John and Tony had talked her into tagging along .
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Claire seems to have tagged along somehow.
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Three other wanderers, not quite so dazed, allowed Billy to tag along .
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Although for a time Simone tagged along in his life, he never took the affair seriously.
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At age 10, she began tagging along when her brothers would head out to the neighborhood playgrounds and recreation centers.
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If we get out, we just tag along behind you until you get home, and we vanish.
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I was tagging along , comforting a man in misery until he started teaching.
on
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Maybe I was just annoyed that his friend tagged on and mucked it up.
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Wattling had tagged on , plastered up as he was, and Hilary included him in.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His teammates have tagged him with a second nickname.
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Reyes tagged Thompson out at home plate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although it's specifically marketed for use with antiques, there's no end to the kind of property it can tag .
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I tagged his car, which, in turn, tagged the guardrail and flipped over.
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One of them was with Red Carlson, the heavyweight who tagged after Tony through his good years.
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This grammatical tag must be compatible with those that the corpus was tagged with.
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Three other wanderers, not quite so dazed, allowed Billy to tag along.
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Your training wheels were still on, I remember that, and you sort of tagged along behind them.