flag

IPA(Pronunciation)

/flæɡ/

Noun

countable uncountable attributive often Britain UK archaic slang Internet

A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol. / An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).

Japanese Meaning

旗：紋章やエンブレムがあしらわれた布製のシンボル。視覚的な信号や象徴として用いられる。 / デジタルな旗：ウェブサイトなどで用いられる、実物の旗を正確に再現した表現。

What is this buttons?

They raised the flag at dawn to signal the start of the festival.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼らは夜明けに祭りの始まりを知らせるために旗を掲げた。

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A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.

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An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).

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(nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.

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The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.

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(computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.

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(aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.

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(Britain, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.

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(geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.

A flag of P is a sequence (F₀, F₁, ..., Fₘ) of faces of P such that dim Fᵢ = i for each i and Fᵢ is a side of Fᵢ₊₁ for each i < m.[…]A regular polytope in X is a polytope P in X whose group of symmetries in <P> acts transitively on its flags.

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(mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.

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(television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.

At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

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(UK, archaic, slang) An apron.

Suppose you try a different tack, / And on the square you flash your flag?

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(Internet slang, ACG) A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.

death flag

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