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Tag, TAG, or tagging could refer to:

Identification and tracking

For uses in computing, see § Computing.
  • Tag, a label used in electronic article surveillance to prevent shoplifting
  • Tagging (graffiti), a form of graffiti signature
  • Dog tag (military), an ID tag worn by military personnel
  • Ear tag, an ID tag worn by farm animals
  • Electronic tagging, a form of non-surreptitious surveillance using a device attached to a person or vehicle
  • Kimball tag, formerly used to identify products to a stock control system
  • Pet tag, an ID tag worn by pets
  • QR code or mobile tag, a type of matrix barcode
  • RFID tag, current stock control technology
  • Toe tag, an ID tag worn by dead bodies in the morgue
  • Triage tag, a tool used to classify victims of mass casualty incidents
  • Vehicle registration plate, a plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Tag (comics), a Marvel character
  • Tag, the main character of the game ModNation Racers

Films

  • Tag (2015 film), a 2015 Japanese film
  • Tag (2018 film), a 2018 American comedy film

Music

  • Tag (barbershop music), a dramatic variation in the last section of a song
  • TAG Recordings, a record label

Television

  • Tag (TV channel), a defunct Philippine TV channel
  • T@gged, a 2016–2018 American web series
  • "Tagged" (The Penguins of Madagascar episode)

Theatre

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Tag (advertisement), a sportswear commercial
  • Tag: The Power of Paint, a computer game
  • Tag Entertainment, a film production company
  • Tagged (website), a social networking site
  • Tagging (graffiti), a form/style of graffiti signature
  • Post-credits scene, a clip appearing at the end of some media

Brands and enterprises

  • TAG Body Spray, a discontinued perfume
  • TAG Group, a Luxembourgian private holding company
  • TAG Heuer maker of watches and other fashion accessories
  • TAG Oil, an oil and gas company operating in New Zealand
  • Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway or TAG, a railway running from Tennessee through northwest Georgia into Alabama
  • Transportes Aéreos Guatemaltecos or TAG, a Guatemalan airline

Computing

  • TAG (BBS), a bulletin board software program
  • Tag (Facebook), a link to another Facebook page, user or group
  • Tag (metadata), an index term assigned to a piece of information; a type of meta-information that captures knowledge about an information resource
  • Tag (programming), a method for passing parameters to subroutines
  • Tags (Unicode block), deprecated characters for invisibly tagging texts by language
  • Tag, a markup element in several markup languages, including HTML, XML, SGML and XHTML
    • HTML tag, a component of the HTML markup language
  • Revision tag, a label for a specific revision of a project
  • Audio tag, see Metadata § Digital music
  • Tag files, indexes to identifiers in source code generated by ctags
  • Tag system, a deterministic computational model
  • Tag URI, a unique identifier protocol used in internet technologies

Government and political organizations

  • State adjutant general, senior military officer of each state in the United States
  • Tactical Assault Group, an Australian counter-terrorism unit
  • Tamils Against Genocide, a peace organization
  • Transaction Account Guarantee Program, a program of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, see Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program
  • Treatment Action Group, an HIV/AIDS activist organization

Language and education

  • Tag (Hebrew writing), a decoration drawn over some of the letters in Jewish scrolls
  • Tag (LeapFrog), an interactive reading device
  • Hashtag, a form of over simplifying an idea using the hashtag (#) symbol before a word or mesh of words that are intended to be an abstraction of a subject
  • Part-of-speech tagging, the process of marking up words as corresponding to a particular part of speech
  • Tag question, a grammatical structure that converts a statement to a question
  • Talented and Gifted program, a type of educational curriculum
    • School for the Talented and Gifted, a secondary school in Dallas, Texas, referred to as TAG
  • Tree-adjoining grammar, a grammar framework

Natural science

  • 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase I, called TAG in E. coli
  • Protein tag, a biochemistry method
  • Skin tag, a small benign tumour
  • Theoretical and Applied Genetics, a scientific journal
  • Timneh African grey, a parrot
  • Triglyceride or Triacylglycerol, often shortened to TAG
  • Tumor-associated glycoprotein, a type of protein
  • TAG, a stop codon

People with surname Tag

  • Katrin Lea Tag (born 1972), scenic designer and costume designer

Sport

  • Tag (game), a playground game
  • Tag (horse), an 18th-century thoroughbred racehorse
  • Tag out, a play in baseball
  • Tag team, a type of wrestling
  • Alex Tagliani, Canadian racecar driver, nicknamed "Tags"

Other uses

See also

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