bag

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English

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Various shopping bags.

Etymology

From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bag (plural bags)

  1. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
  2. (informal) A handbag
  3. A suitcase.
  4. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
  5. One’s preference.
    Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
  6. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
  7. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
    The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
  8. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
    He headed back to the bag.
  9. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
  10. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
    If one has a bag of three apples and the letter 'a' is taken to denote 'apple', then such bag could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Note that in an ordinary context, when talking about a bag of apples, one does not care about identifying the individual apples, although one might be interested in distinguishing apples by species, for example, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Translations

flexible container
suitcase — see suitcase
backpack — see backpack
preference
ugly woman
baseball: cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base
baseball: first, second, or third base
breathalyzer device
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Verb

bag (third-person singular simple present bags, present participle bagging, simple past and past participle bagged)

  1. To put into a bag.
  2. To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
    We bagged three deer yesterday.
  3. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
  4. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (slang, African American Vernacular) To be caught by the police.
  5. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
  6. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
  7. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
  8. (medicine) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
  9. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell or hang down like a full bag.
    The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
  10. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
  11. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Warner. (Alb. Eng.) to this entry?)

Translations

to put into a bag
to catch
to provide artificial ventilation
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Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun or verb bag

Descendants

  • Korean: 백 (baek)

Anagrams

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bak (“back”).

Adverb

bag

  1. behind

Noun

bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)

  1. behind, bottom, butt, buttocks
  2. seat (part of clothing)
Synonyms
  • (behind): bagdel, ende, røv (informal)
  • (seat): buksebag
Inflection
    Inflection of bag
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative bag bagen bage bagene
genitive bags bagens bages bagenes

Preposition

bag

  1. behind

Etymology 2

Verbal noun to bage (“bake”).

Noun

bag n

  1. pastry
Synonyms
  • bagværk

Verb

bag

  1. imperative of bage
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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bague (“ring”).

Noun

bag

  1. ring
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Lojban

Rafsi

bag

  1. rafsi of bargu.
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Meriam

Noun

bag

  1. cheek
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Norwegian

Etymology

Loanword from Old Norse baggi through English bag.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

  • bagg

Noun

bag

  1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or a sack.
  2. On a baby carriage: a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

Inflection

    Inflection of bag
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m bag bagen bager bagene
Nynorsk m bag bagen bagar bagane
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Rohingya

Etymology

From Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra)

Noun

bag

  1. tiger
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Swedish

Etymology

From the English word bag.

Noun

bag c

  1. A kind of large bag; a duffel bag

Declension

Declension of bag
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bag bagen bagar bagarna
genitive bags bagens bagars bagarnas
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Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From Meriam bag.

Noun

bag

  1. (eastern dialect) cheek

Synonyms

  • masa (western dialect)
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