Flagging

Definition: Flagging

Flagging

Adjective

1. Weak from exhaustion.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flagging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Mining

Occupations

Synonym: Flagging

Disease

Unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.

Inactivity

Dilatory, laggard; lagging; Verb: slow; rusty, flagging; lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle; pottering; Verb:shilly-shally; (irresolute).

Weariness

Weary, tired; Verb: drowsy; (sleepy); uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of.

Crosswords: Flagging

Monark outfitted for hydrography in Indian River Inlet, Delaware coast Motorola Miniranger secured on mast and covered with red flagging Boat was being used for range-azimuth hydrography Detached party from NOAA Ship PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Mary Carroll of the University of Rhode Island Zoology Department is flagging to determine the density of deer ticks. These ticks can be dangerous as they are carriers of Lyme disease. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Flagging Oregon Trail near Teapot DomePrior to ReseedingLower Snake River District. Credit: W. Meyer.

Flagging the train. Credit: Library of Congress.

John Paulinski, car inspector, blue flagging a train for inspection, at Corwith yard, Santa Fe RR trip, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

This well has not in front the large blue flagging stone, which serves as a curb for all the wells of Belgium

Economic History

Malaysia

To further stimulate flagging domestic demand, the government also cut the required contribution by employees into the national retirement fund, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), from 11% to 9% of wages and salaries. (references)

Finland

The Securities Market Act contains regulations on corporate disclosure procedures and requirements, responsibility for flagging share ownership, insider regulations and offenses, the issuing and marketing of securities, and trading. (references)

Travel

Argentina

Because of many cases of robberies in false taxis, as noted above, visitors should, whenever possible, call radio taxis, or arrange a remis, instead of flagging passing taxis on the street. (references)

Expression using "flagging": activities flagging. Additional references.

Ending with "flagging": fast-flagging, never-flagging, re-flagging.

Albanian

trotuar me plloça, plloçë (flag, flagstone, slab), lëshim (coast, concession, discharge, droop, drop, emission, failure, flaccidity, funk, issuance, issue, launch, launching, laxity, laxness, megrims, profligacy, release, relief, sag, tolerance), i varur (ancillary, baggy, conditional, dangling, dependant, dependent, depending, hanging, in suspense, pendant, pendent, pending, pendulous, pensile, slavish, subject, suspended), i lodhur (all in, aweary, bored, disgusted, fatigued, forworn, jaded, languorous, rundown, sick, tired, used up, way-worn, weary, worn out), i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flaccid, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, lax, licentious, limp, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i dobësuar (diluted, effete, emaciated, emasculate, exhausted, rundown, sapless), dobësim (breakdown, debilitation, decline, decrepitude, depravation, dilution, ebb, emaciation, emasculation, enervation, exhaustion, failure, wane, weakening). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممشى مرصوف, ‏متناقص (decreasing, decrescent, incongruous, tapering, waney), ‏متضائل (on the wane), ‏واهن (atonal, atonic, crazy, doddery, effete, enervate, feeble, impotent, infirm, invalidity, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lower, nerveless, powerless, prostrate, rusty, shrivelled, sickly, sluggish, spiritless, stunted, tender, weak, weakling, weakly, wimp), ‏حجارة لوحية, ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏رصيف (dock, footpath, kerb, levee, path, recife, ridge, sidewalk, stance). (various references)

Bulgarian 

калдъръм (cobblestones), отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), отпадащ (failing), оклюмал (crestfallen), намаляващ (languishing, remissive, step down, thin, waney), плочник (pavement, schist, sidewalk). (various references)

Chinese 

下垂 (Drooped, Drooping, Flagged, Sagged, sagging). (various references)

Czech

oslabování. (various references)

Danish

udflagning (flagging out), skifte til bekvemmelighedsflag (flagging out), mærkning af aktiviteter (activities flagging). (various references)

Dutch

vlaggen van activiteiten (activities flagging), uitvlaggen (flagging out, relocation). (various references)

Finnish

toimintoliputus (activities flagging). (various references)

French

qui tombe, qui baisse, pierres, passage, dallage (tiled floor), contradictoire. (various references)

German

erschlaffend, erlahmend (slackening). (various references)

Greek 

κύπτων πεζοδρόμιο. (various references)

Hebrew 

תשוש (all in, exhausted, frail, jaded, limp, limping, overwrought, played out, weak). (various references)

Hungarian

csüngõ. (various references)

Indonesian

bosan-bosan (never flagging). (various references)

Italian

marcatura delle attività (activities flagging), contrassegnatura delle attività (activities flagging), cambiamento di bandiera (flagging out). (various references)

Korean 

표시 (Denoting, indication, sign, signs). (various references)

Manx

lhag (baggy, dent, depressed, dim, easy fitting, faltering, feeble, flaccid, frail in health, ineffective). (various references)

Pig Latin

aggingflay.(various references)

Portuguese

marcação de actividades (activities flagging). (various references)

Romanian

sfârşealã (break down, exhaustion, failure, flaccidity, weakness, weariness), pavare cu pietre, pavaj (pavage, pavement, paving), moleşire (droop, effeminacy, emasculation, enervation), lipsit de viaţã (lifeless, spiritless). (various references)

Russian 

мостовая из плитняка, мощение плитняком. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

klonutost. (various references)

Spanish

flojo (loose), enlosado (flagstone pavement, flagstone paving, paved). (various references)

Swedish

aktivitetsmärkning (activities flagging). (various references)

Turkish

zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feeble, feint, flaccid, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, pithless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, slim, small, spare, spent, thin, unmanly, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), taşlarla döşenmiş kaldırım, gevşek (airy, crank, drooping, flabby, flaccid, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, lax, limp, listless, loose, nonrigid, non-rigid, slack, slouching, slouchy, supine, unstuck), geniş kaldırım taşları, cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy). (various references)

Ukrainian

слабкий (bedrid, characterless, crank, delicate, faint, feeble, languishing, lax, limp, nerveless, one horse, pale, queasy, slack, tender, tenuous, weak, weakly), в'янучий, в'янення (blight, fading), згасаючий (parting), звисаючий (perched), брукування плитняком, плитняк. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flagging": flaggingly, flaggings. (additional references)

Words ending with "flagging": beflagging, unflagging. (additional references)

Words containing "flagging": unflaggingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flagging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faggiani, Fragging. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fagging, lagging.

-2 letters: gaging, gingal.

-3 letters: aging, algin, align, fagin, final, fling, liang, ligan, linga.

-4 letters: agin, alif, anil, fail, fain, fang, fila, flag, flan, gain, gang, giga, glia, lain, lang, ling, naif, nail.

-5 letters: ail, ain, ani, fag, fan, fig, fil, fin, gag, gal, gan, gig, gin, lag, lin, nag, nil.

+1 letter: flaggings.

+2 letters: beflagging, flaggingly, unflagging.

+4 letters: leapfrogging, unflaggingly.