Definitions for flagging

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IPA: /ˈflæg ɪŋ/

Flagging is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in flagging (afgggiln).

Definitions for flagging

noun

1. flagstones collectively.
2. a pavement or walk of flagstones.
3. 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.
4. Ornithology. the tuft of long feathers on the legs of falcons and most hawks; the lengthened feathers on the crus or tibia.
5. Hunting. the tail of a deer or of a setter dog.
6. Journalism. the nameplate of a newspaper. masthead (def 1). the name of a newspaper as printed on the editorial page.
7. a tab or tag attached to a page, file card, etc., to mark it for attention.
8. Music. hook1 (def 12a).
9. Movies, Television. a small gobo.
10. Usually, flags. the ends of the bristles of a brush, especially a paintbrush, when split.
11. 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.
12. flagstone (def 1).
13. flags, flagstone (def 2).

Idioms

1. strike the flag, to relinquish command, as of a ship. to submit or surrender: Also, strike one's flag.

adjective

1. becoming smaller or weaker; dwindling.
2. weak, fatigued, or drooping.

verb (used with object)

1. to place a flag or flags over or on; decorate with flags.
2. to signal or warn (a person, automobile, etc.) with or as if with a flag (sometimes followed by down):
3. to communicate (information) by or as if by a flag.
4. to decoy, as game, by waving a flag or the like to excite attention or curiosity.
5. to mark (a page in a book, file card, etc.) for attention, as by attaching protruding tabs.
6. (of a brush) to split the ends of the bristles.
7. to pave with flagstones.

verb (used without object)

1. to fall off in vigor, energy, activity, interest, etc.:
2. to hang loosely or limply; droop.

Origin of flagging

First recorded in 1535-45; flag³ + -ing²

Examples for flagging

But what she was noticing was the flagging effort of his vivacity.

flagging energies, lashed by an indomitable will, must persevere.

Even humor, the usual respite of the British, seems to be flagging in the wake of an unusually grey winter.

His end, or her end, is our own in view, and the flagging spirit revives.

And Democratic support is flagging, with a 15-point gap between Republican support for Israel and Democratic support.

Yet improving conditions for those workers—particularly in the industrial heartland—could save his flagging presidency.

And he went about it with a zest that knew no flagging, with a relish that nothing could impair.

Their spirits rose with his and their flagging hopes revived.

Sounds to me like Pew conducted its survey by flagging down cars full of stoned teenagers and asking nosy questions.

Within Aleppo, the Assad regime controls the balance of power, but its public support is flagging.