The difference between Dog and Tag

When used as nouns, dog means a mammal, canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding, whereas tag means a small label.

When used as verbs, dog means to pursue with the intent to catch, whereas tag means to label (something).

check bellow for the other definitions of Dog and Tag

  1. Dog as a noun:

    A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

    Examples:

    "The dog barked all night long."

  2. Dog as a noun:

    A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).

  3. Dog as a noun (slang, derogatory):

    A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

    Examples:

    "She’s a real dog."

  4. Dog as a noun (slang):

    A man (derived from definition 2).

    Examples:

    "You lucky dog!"

    "He's a silly dog."

  5. Dog as a noun (slang, derogatory):

    A coward.

    Examples:

    "Come back and fight, you dogs!"

  6. Dog as a noun (derogatory):

    Someone who is morally reprehensible.

    Examples:

    "You dirty dog."

  7. Dog as a noun (slang):

    A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).

  8. Dog as a noun:

    Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.

  9. Dog as a noun:

    A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)

  10. Dog as a noun:

    A metal support for logs in a fireplace.

    Examples:

    "The dogs were too hot to touch."

  11. Dog as a noun (cartomancy):

    The eighteenth Lenormand card.

  12. Dog as a noun:

    A hot dog.

  13. Dog as a noun (poker, _, slang):

    Underdog.

  14. Dog as a noun (slang, almost always, _, in the plural):

    Foot.

    Examples:

    "uxi My dogs are barking! My feet hurt!"

  15. Dog as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):

    (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

    Examples:

    "My dog is dead. My mobile-phone battery has run out of charge and is no longer able to function."

  16. Dog as a noun:

    One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.

  1. Dog as a verb (transitive):

    To pursue with the intent to catch.

  2. Dog as a verb (transitive):

    To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

    Examples:

    "The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step."

  3. Dog as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To fasten a hatch securely.

    Examples:

    "It is very important to dog down these hatches..."

  4. Dog as a verb (intransitive, emerging usage in, _, British):

    To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

    Examples:

    "I admit that I like to dog at my local country park."

  5. Dog as a verb (intransitive, transitive):

    To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

    Examples:

    "A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it."

  1. Tag as a noun:

    A small label.

  2. Tag as a noun:

    A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the others, who then becomes "it".

  3. Tag as a noun:

    A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.

  4. Tag as a noun:

    A type of cardboard.

  5. Tag as a noun:

    Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.

  6. Tag as a noun:

    A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.

  7. Tag as a noun (informal, authorship):

    An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").

    Examples:

    "synonyms: dialogue tag speech tag tag line"

  8. Tag as a noun (music):

    The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.

  9. Tag as a noun (chiefly, US):

    a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).

  10. Tag as a noun (baseball):

    An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.

    Examples:

    "The tag was applied at second for the final out."

  11. Tag as a noun (computing):

    A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.

    Examples:

    "The <code>&lt;title&gt;</code> tag provides a title for the Web page."

    "The <code>&lt;sarcasm&gt;</code> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang."

  12. Tag as a noun (computing):

    A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.

    Examples:

    "I want to add genre and artist tags to the files in my music collection."

  13. Tag as a noun:

    Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.

  14. Tag as a noun:

    A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.

  15. Tag as a noun:

    The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.

  16. Tag as a noun:

    Something mean and paltry; the rabble.

  17. Tag as a noun:

    A sheep in its first year.

  18. Tag as a noun (biochemistry):

    Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.

  19. Tag as a noun (slang):

    A person's name.

    Examples:

    "What's your tag?"

  1. Tag as a verb (transitive):

    To label (something).

  2. Tag as a verb (transitive, graffiti):

    To mark (something) with one's tag.

  3. Tag as a verb (transitive):

    To remove dung tags from a sheep.

    Examples:

    "Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep."

  4. Tag as a verb (transitive, baseball, colloquial):

    To hit the ball hard.

    Examples:

    "He really tagged that ball."

  5. Tag as a verb (transitive, baseball):

    To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.

    Examples:

    "He tagged the runner for the out."

  6. Tag as a verb (transitive, computing):

    To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

    Examples:

    "I am tagging my music files by artist and genre."

  7. Tag as a verb:

    To follow closely, accompany, tag along.

  8. Tag as a verb (transitive):

    To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).

  9. Tag as a verb (transitive):

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

  10. Tag as a verb:

    To fasten; to attach.

    Examples:

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  1. Tag as a noun:

    A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.

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