Usa Definition | 1. | United States of America. | | 3. | Trademark. USA Network: a cable television channel. | |
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Flag Definition–noun | 1. | a piece of cloth, varying in size, shape, color, and design, usually attached at one edge to a staff or cord, and used as the symbol of a nation, state, or organization, as a means of signaling, etc.; ensign; standard; banner; pennant. | | 2. | Ornithology. the tuft of long feathers on the legs of falcons and most hawks; the lengthened feathers on the crus or tibia. | | 3. | Hunting. the tail of a deer or of a setter dog. | | 4. | Journalism. | a. | the nameplate of a newspaper. | | c. | the name of a newspaper as printed on the editorial page. | | | 5. | a tab or tag attached to a page, file card, etc., to mark it for attention. | | 6. | Music. hook (def. 12a). | | 7. | Movies, Television. a small gobo. | | 8. | Usually, flags. the ends of the bristles of a brush, esp. a paintbrush, when split. | | 9. | Computers. a symbol, value, or other means of identifying data of interest, or of informing later parts of a program what conditions earlier parts have encountered. | –verb (used with object) | 10. | to place a flag or flags over or on; decorate with flags. | | 11. | to signal or warn (a person, automobile, etc.) with or as if with a flag (sometimes fol. by down): to flag a taxi; to flag down a passing car. | | 12. | to communicate (information) by or as if by a flag. | | 13. | to decoy, as game, by waving a flag or the like to excite attention or curiosity. | | 14. | to mark (a page in a book, file card, etc.) for attention, as by attaching protruding tabs. | | 15. | (of a brush) to split the ends of the bristles. | —Idiom | 16. | strike the flag, | a. | to relinquish command, as of a ship. | | b. | to submit or surrender: His financial situation is growing worse, but he's not ready to strike the flag. | Also, strike one's flag. | |
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