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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tagging
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
electronic tagging
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electronic
▪ Rule Britannia and child abuse. Electronic tagging, Boss, ten pints and plenty rape.
▪ The guidelines say electronic tagging should only be used with the consent of residents or a proxy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another important use of statistical grammatical information has been for the grammatical tagging of natural language corpora.
▪ The guidelines say electronic tagging should only be used with the consent of residents or a proxy.
▪ The use of tagged architecture is limited to research projects at present, although the Burroughs B6700 computer makes some use of tagging.
▪ Then there's the demonstration of tagging - a reminder that these calves are numbers rather than names.
▪ There are two main applications for which this approach has been used: 1 Automatic corpus tagging.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tagging

Tag \Tag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Tagging.]

  1. To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.

    He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
    --Macaulay.

    His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
    --Dryden.

  2. To join; to fasten; to attach.
    --Bolingbroke.

  3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.

Wiktionary
tagging

n. The act by which something is tagged. vb. (present participle of tag English)

WordNet
tag

  1. v. attach a tag or label to; "label these bottles" [syn: label, mark]

  2. touch a player while he is holding the ball

  3. provide with a name or nickname

  4. go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn: chase, chase after, trail, tail, give chase, dog, go after, track]

  5. supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes

  6. [also: tagging, tagged]

tag

  1. n. a label made of cardboard or plastic or metal

  2. a small piece of cloth or paper [syn: rag, shred, tag end, tatter]

  3. a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser

  4. (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)

  5. [also: tagging, tagged]

tagging

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Wikipedia
Tagging (stamp)

Tagging of postage stamps means that the stamps are printed on luminescent paper or with luminescent ink to facilitate automated mail processing. Both fluorescence and phosphorescence are used. The same stamp may have been printed with and without these luminescent features, the two varieties are referred to as tagged and untagged, respectively.

Usage examples of "tagging".

He trudged from one darkened lane to the next, shoulders hunched against the night air, me tagging along about ten steps behind.

Even better, the FIB had been after her for three months, and tagging her took me two days.

The memory of hiding in the dark from fairy assassins quashed any feeling of excitement that the prospect of tagging Trent had given me.

I'd expected drug-deal surveillance of school kids, possible breaking and entering checkouts, confirming the presence of some major player hiding out in town, maybe even tracking the latest taggings by the Runalong graffiti raider everyone was upset about.