The difference between Moniker and Tag
When used as nouns, moniker means a personal name or nickname, whereas tag means a small label.
Tag is also verb with the meaning: to label (something).
check bellow for the other definitions of Moniker and Tag
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Moniker as a noun:
A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.
Examples:
"The rookie was upset at being called Lemon Drop until she realized that everyone on the team had a silly moniker."
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Moniker as a noun:
A signature.
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Moniker as a noun (computing):
An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.
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Tag as a noun:
A small label.
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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".
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Tag as a noun:
A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
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Tag as a noun:
A type of cardboard.
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Tag as a noun:
Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
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Tag as a noun:
A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
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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"
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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.
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Tag as a noun (chiefly, US):
a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
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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."
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Tag as a noun (computing):
A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
Examples:
"The <code><title></code> tag provides a title for the Web page."
"The <code><sarcasm></code> tag conveys sarcasm in Internet slang."
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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."
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Tag as a noun:
Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
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Tag as a noun:
A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
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Tag as a noun:
The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
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Tag as a noun:
Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
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Tag as a noun:
A sheep in its first year.
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Tag as a noun (biochemistry):
Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
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Tag as a noun (slang):
A person's name.
Examples:
"What's your tag?"
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Tag as a verb (transitive):
To label (something).
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Tag as a verb (transitive, graffiti):
To mark (something) with one's tag.
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Tag as a verb (transitive):
To remove dung tags from a sheep.
Examples:
"Regularly tag the rear ends of your sheep."
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Tag as a verb (transitive, baseball, colloquial):
To hit the ball hard.
Examples:
"He really tagged that ball."
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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."
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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."
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Tag as a verb:
To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
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Tag as a verb (transitive):
To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
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Tag as a verb (transitive):
To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
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Tag as a verb:
To fasten; to attach.
Examples:
"rfquotek Bolingbroke"
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Tag as a noun:
A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.