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# flag

«flag» in Mova's school dictionary: **a piece of cloth with colours and pictures that stands…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (flag, flags); verb (flag, flags, flagged, flagging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A flag is a piece of cloth with colours and pictures that stands for a country, a team or a group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#m1)

2) A flag can be a sign or signal, like a chequered flag at the end of a race or a red flag for danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#m2)

3) To flag something is to mark it so people notice it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#m3)

4) To flag means to get tired and slow down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: things counted, often put along a line at equal gaps; flags with stripes or colours; symmetry in flag designs. In geography: national flags (the Union Jack, the Stars and Stripes, the Maple Leaf). In safety: swim between the red and yellow flags at the beach (Australia, New Zealand, UK). Phrases: «wave a flag», «fly a flag», «red flag», «flag down» (wave to stop a car).

### examples

- There are 12 flags along the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#x1)
- Each flag has 3 stripes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#x2)
- Flags are put every 4 m on a 20 m path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#x3)
- She draws 5 red flags and 3 blue flags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#x4)
- The flag of Canada has a red maple leaf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#x5)
- Always swim between the red and yellow flags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#x6)
- The runners were flagging near the end of the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#x7)
- The teacher flagged the mistakes in red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#x8)
- Steamboats, with waving flags, pass swiftly by. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a flag». A flag «flies» or «waves». Maths: counted things; along a line, flags and gaps differ by one. Trap: count flags at both ends.

### In the corpora

- [A spam filter can give points to warning words and flag a message when its points reach a set number.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/13/)
- [In Australia, New Zealand and the UK, lifeguards mark the safest place to swim with red and yellow flags.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/7-swimming-and-water/9/)
- [Red and yellow flags mark the area that lifeguards watch, and you swim between them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/8/)
- [Lifeguards move the flags during the day, because the safe place changes as the tide and currents change.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/9/)
- [A red flag on its own means it is too dangerous to swim.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/44-the-beach-and-the-sea/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flag» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flag/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.