Sag

Definition: Sag

Sag

Noun

1. A shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat".

Verb

1. Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness.

2. Cause to sag; "The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably".

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

Date "sag" was first used: 1392. (references)

Note: Sag \Sag\ (s[a^]g), intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Sagged; Sagging.]. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Chemical Industry

Electrical Engineering

Engineering & Technology

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Transportation

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SAG

SAG

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Sag

Curvature

Verb: be curved; Adjective: curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag; deviate; curl, turn; reenter.

Crosswords: Sag

Afrikaan (soft), Norwegian (saw), Turkmen (healthy).

Actually no one will marry me because my boosies have started to sag. (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis. Starring Julia Roberts as Anna Scott and Hugh Grant as William Thacker.)

Wie sag ich's meinem Kinde? (1970)

Shoot Out at Big Sag (1962)

Et Slag for en sag (2003)

Sag einfach ja (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Citizen : an American boy's early manhood aboard a Sag Harbor whale-ship chasing delirium and death around the world, 1843-1849 : being the story of Erastus Bill who lived to tell it : with notes on Erastus Bill by Robert Wesley Bills (reference)

• Ich sag, du bist ein Bär (reference)

• Sag Harbor: An American Beauty (reference)

• Sag ja zu dir : Selbstverwirklichung als Aufgabe d. Christen (reference)

• Sag Mal (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Skog & Sag (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Sag Mir [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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[Building condition floor sag, 1 1/2 "]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Jas. A Herne's new play, Sag Harbor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

When the muscles of the soft palate at the base of the tongue and the uvula (the small fleshy tissue hanging from the center of the back of the throat) relax and sag, the airway becomes blocked, making breathing labored and noisy and even stopping it altogether. (references)

Business

These projects are expected to get off the ground as soon as the SAG implements the new mining code that is still being revised. (references)

As part of its initiative to diversify the economy, the Saudi Government (SAG) encourages foreign investment in mining projects. (references)

In the meantime, SATRA has been disbanded by the SAG in favor of a new industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA). (references)

Economic History

Saudi Arabia

The SAG has a general reluctance to borrow externally except through parastatals. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Arabian Government (SAG) already spent more than $20 billion on desalination. (references)

South Africa

Cumulatively, these parastatals are valued at over US$ 25 billion, and represent 90 percent of SAG assets. (references)

Political Economy

SOUTH AFRICA

The SAG passed two IPR-related bills in Parliament at the end of 1997, the Counterfeit Goods Act and the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Bills, thereby enhancing its IPR protection. (references)

Trade

Chile

Special permission, certificates, and approval documents are required in special cases and can be obtained from National Health Service (Servicio Nacional de Salud, SNS), the Agricultural and Livestock Service (Servicio Agricola y Ganadero, SAG), and the National Fishing Service (Servicio Nacional de Pesca, SERNAP), depending on the nature of the products to be imported. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "sag": sag down ♦ Sag Harbor ♦ sag ing shoulders ♦ To sag to leeward ♦ weld where the parent metal has softened allowing the weld and edges of metal to sag. Additional references.

Beginning with "sag": sag-bag, sag-bags.

Albanian

squllje, squllem, shmangem nga kursi, varem (depend, hang oneself, turn on), rënie çmimi, përkulje (bend, Bob, bow, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, curvature, droop, flection, flex, flexion, flexure, incurvation, incurvature, inflection, reverence, stoop, warp), përkulem (bend, bend over, bow, bow down, cant, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, hook, incurve, lean, stoop), lëshim (coast, concession, discharge, droop, drop, emission, failure, flaccidity, flagging, funk, issuance, issue, launch, launching, laxity, laxness, megrims, profligacy, release, relief, tolerance), epje (give, pliability, pliancy), epem, bie çmimi, bark (abdomen, belly, diarrhoea, midriff, paunch, stomach, trough, tummy, Venter), bëj bark. (various references)

Arabic 

‏موضع غائر, ‏تدلى (bag, dangle, droop, fall, flag, flow, loll, lop, suspend, swing), ‏تبلد (acclimate), ‏إنحنى (bend, bend over, bent, bow, crouch, curve, dip, double up, droop, duck, hunch, incline, low bow, recline, stoop, tip), ‏إنحرف عن الخط المرسوم, ‏إنحراف عن الخط المرسوم, ‏إنخفض (die down, drop, fade, go down, recede, stoop, tumble), ‏إنخفاض (depression, drooping, reduction, run down, slide, slip), ‏إنثناء (flection, flexion, flexure, inflection, ruckle), ‏إرتخى (slacken), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отслабвам (abate, become peaky, become thin and hollow-cheeked, become weak, diminish, languish, lose weight, moderate, slim, thin, weaken, wind down, wither), изкривявам се (curve), изкривяване (collapse, contortion, curvature, curve, deformation, twist), поддавам (give, subside, yield), провисване, западам (come down, decay, dwindle, fail, falter, go back, molder, moulder, sink, turn down), отпадам (drop out, faint, fall off, languish, sink, wilt), дрейф (drift, driftage, leeway), отклонявам се от курса (bag, pay off, sheer, yaw), спадане на цените (dip), вися (cool one's heels, dangle, hang, hang down, hang over, impend, loll, swag, swing), вгъвам се, клюмвам (droop, flag, wilt), хлътвам (fall in, fall over, settle down, sink), хлътване (settling, sinking), спадам (decline, decrease, deflate, dip, ease, ease off, ebb, fall, lower, recede, sink, turn down), отклонение от курса (sheer). (various references)

Chinese 

鬆弛 , 下陷. (various references)

Czech

snížit se (come down, demean, lower, slacken, slip, stoop), zbortit se (warp), prohnout se, prùvìs (slackness), prùhyb, poklesnout (dip, fall, recede), pokles (decline, decrease, depression, diminution, dip, drop, fall, subsidence), ochabnout (become flabby, decline, decrease, fizzle out, flag, quail, slacken). (various references)

Danish

løber (longitudinal beam, run, runner). (various references)

Dutch

loper (courier). (various references)

Farsi 

فرونشستن (Abate, Slake, Subside), صعیف شدن , خم شدن (Bow, Buckle, Decline, Lean, Lob, Recline, Stoop, Wilt), اویزان شدن , ازوسطخم شدن , شکم دادن . (various references)

Finnish

valuminen (run, running, sagging, yielding), notkua (bend). (various references)

French

s'arquer, s'affaisser, fléchissement, fléchir, coulure (sagging), baisser, baisse, affaissement (sagging). (various references)

German

Senkung (counterbore, decline, decrease, dip, drop, fall, hollow, lowering, reduction, sagging, settlement, sinking, subsidence, valley), sacken (lose height, sack, sink). (various references)

Greek 

κρέμασμα (hang, hanging), κρεμάω, κάμπτομαι (buckle, flex, relent), κλίνω υπό το βάροσ (gravitate), κατάπτωση (decadence, decadency, depression, prostration, slump, subsidence), γέρνω (bend, cant, careen, dip, lean, slant, slope, tilt), βουλιάζω στη μέση, βουλιάζω (go down, go under, sink). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשקוע (be immersed, bog, decay, decline, degenerate, settle, sink, socket, subside), ל�"תקער, לר�"ת (come down, descend, down, fall, go down, settle, subside), שקיע�" (absorption, decadence, decline, degeneration, sedimentation, settlement, sinking, subsidence). (various references)

Hungarian

megereszkedés (relaxation, slack, subsidence, yield). (various references)

Indonesian

longsor, lentur (ductile, flexible, limber, malleable), gelepak. (various references)

Italian

incurvarsi (bulge, incurve), inclinarsi (cant, lean, nod, slant, tilt), diminuire (abate, Bate, decline, decrease, detract, diminish, drop, dwindle, fall, go, go down, lessen, reduce, relax, remit, slacken, slump, wane, weaken, worsen), depressione (blue, dejection, depression, doldrums, drop, dumps, fall, hollow, lowness, reduction, trough), colatura (leakage), cedere (abandon, assign, cede, crack, devote, give, give in, give up, give way, hand over, knuckle, relent, relinquish, render, sell, submit, succumb, surrender, yield), attenuarsi (attenuate), afflosciarsi (droop, wilt), abbassarsi (decrease, demean oneself, dip, droop, drop, ebb, fall, lower, neap, prolapse, sink, subside, truckle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

垂れる (to, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to hang, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たれる (to confer, to dangle, to drip, to droop, to drop, to give, to hang, to leave behind, to lower, to ooze, to pull down, to sag, to trickle). (various references)

Korean 

처짐. (various references)

Manx

tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), lhoobey (arching, bend, bow, coil, coiling, curl up, curve, double over, flex, hunch, incurvate, inflect, inflexion, loop, looping, squirm, stoop, stooping, twine, winding, wriggle, writhe). (various references)

Pig Latin

agsay.(various references)

Portuguese

vergar (spar), quebra de preço, perder firmeza, inclinar-se para o lado, inclinação (addiction, appetite, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, disposal, disposition, downhill, droop, falling, fellow feeling, fondness, inclination, lean, leaning, like, liking, list, lopsidedness, motion, partiality, penchant, proclivity, propensity, ramp, recession, slant, stomach, tendency, tilt, tip, trend, vocation, will), flecha (arrow, bolt, broach, index, roasting-jack, shaft, spire), escorridos (beading, curtaining, run, running, sagging, slopping over), descaimento, depressão (basin, cavity, chill, crater, damp, dejection, doldrums, goneness, low-spiritedness, megrims, oppression, prostration, valley), decair (decay, decline, ebb, retrogress, run down), curva, declinac,a~o, dobra, cai/da, ceder (break, bring to one's knees, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, fold, give in, give up, give way, go, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knuckle under, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield), arqueamento (bulge), abatimento (chill, damp, dejection, depression, despondency, discount, doldrums, drawback, droop, enervation, heaviness, languor, mope, prostration, rebate, reduction, settlement, weekness). (various references)

Romanian

se îndoi (be doubtful of, bend, cast doubts on smth., crook, discredit, distrust, double up, doubt, get out of true, give, hook on, pucker, query, question, spring, stand in doubt, suspect, verge, yield), se încovoia (crook, flex, recurve, stoop, warp, yield), scãdere a preţului, scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, take off, wane), pierde din valoare, lãsare (impress), depresiune (basin, blues, bottom, cave, cavity, dejection, delve, depression, despondency, draw, hollow, melancholia, notch, pan, scoop), îndoiturã (bent, buckle, cockle, crack, crease, flection, fold), încovoiere (bend, crook, flexure, inflexion, kink, stoop). (various references)

Russian 

стрела провеса, снижаться снижение, осадка (draft, settlement, sinking, upset), ослабевать (abate, ease up, ebb, fade out, fail, fall off, slack off, weaken), отклоняться от курса (stray off course, yaw), обвисать, прогибать, прогиб (deflection, deflexion, hogging, swayback, whipping), провес (deflection), провисать, падать (come down, drop, fall, fall down, fallen, fell, overturn, plummeted, sagged, sink, subside, tumble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ulegnuće (rut), ugnuti se. (various references)

Spanish

flexión (flection, flexion), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down), caída (collapse, crash, crush, decadence, decadency, demise, digression, disgrace, downfall, drop, fall, falling, gradient, hang, plunge, setback, spill, taste, toss, tumble), colgar (append, dangle, droop, halter, hang, hang down, hang out, hang up, loll, loll out, put up, ring off, sling, string up, top), comba (bulge, camber, skipping rope, warp), combarse (bend, bow, camber, start), decaerse (droop, ebb, molder, moulder), aflojarse (abate, loosen, relax, slacken), escurridura (run), perder interés, hundimiento (downfall, sagging, sinking, submergence, subsidence), hundir (plunge, run down, scupper, sink, swamp, trip up, wreck), hundirse (fall down, fall in, founder, give, go, go down, go phut, go under, immerse, live, plunge, sink, slump, subside, tumble down), ir a la deriva (drift, wander), pandear (bulge), pandeo (buckle, buckling, bulge, bulging, warp, warping), deriva (drift, leeway). (various references)

Swedish

svikta (crumple, flinch, waver, wilt, yield), sjunka (decline, descend, dip, drop, fall, founder, go down, go under, lower, sink), bågna (bend). (various references)

Thai

การทำให้จมลง, ห้อย (bag, loppy), จมลง (founder, lower, sag down). (various references)

Turkish

sarkmak (bag, beetle, dangle, drape, droop, flag, hang, hang down, hang out, impend, lean out, lie over, lop, overhang, prolapse, slouch), sarkma (droop, hang, hanging, prolapse, prolapsus, ptosis, slouch), eğilmek (bend, bow, buckle, cant over, curve, dip, double, double up, droop, duck, fall down, hang, hang over, incline, lean, spring, stoop, strain, tilt, tip, warp, yield), değer kaybetmek, düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, fall over, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), düşme (descent, downfall, drop, fall, falling away, falling down, falling off, flop, precipitation, scale down, slump, spill, tumble), bel vermek, bel verme, azalmak (abate, be on the wane, be reduced, decay, decline, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, dive, drop off, dwindle, ease off, fall away, fall off, lessen, run short of, run short of smth., scale down, shorten, shrink, sink, tail, wane, wear away), çökmek (abandon, bend, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, cower, crack, crack up, crouch, crumple, crumple up, decline, descend, dip, fall down, fall in, fold, fold up, founder, give up, give way, gravitate, renounce, resign, settle, sink, slump, slump down, squat, subside), çökme (collapse, crack up, decline, depression, dip, downfall, slump, subsidence), çöküntü (breakdown, collapse, depression). (various references)

Turkmen 

gaяюarmak (cave in). (various references)

Ukrainian

спадати (ebb, neap), спад (chute, decline, degression, descent, fall, ramp, relaxing, wane), осісти (anchor), осідання (sinking, yield, yielding), закрут дороги, прогинатися (yield), прогинання (arching), провисати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự võng xuống (deflection, deflexion), sự lún xuống (sinking). (various references)

sacken. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sag": saga, sagacious, sagaciously, sagaciousness, sagaciousnesses, sagacities, sagacity, sagaman, sagamen, sagamore, sagamores, saganash, saganashes, sagas, sagbut, sagbuts, sage, sagebrush, sagebrushes, sagely, sageness, sagenesses, sager, sages, sagest, saggar, saggard, saggards, saggared, saggaring, saggars, sagged, sagger, saggered, saggering, saggers, saggier, saggiest, sagging, saggy, sagier, sagiest, sagittal, sagittally, sagittate, sago, sagos, sags, saguaro, saguaros, sagum. (additional references)

Words ending with "sag": antisag. (additional references)

Words containing "sag": assagai, assagaied, assagaiing, assagais, brassage, brassages, corsage, corsages, disaggregate, disaggregated, disaggregates, disaggregating, disaggregation, disaggregations, disaggregative, disagree, disagreeable, disagreeableness, disagreeablenesses, disagreeably, disagreed, disagreeing, disagreement, disagreements, disagrees, dosage, dosages, dressage, dressages, embassage, embassages, envisage, envisaged, envisages, envisaging, expressage, expressages, isagoge, isagoges, isagogic, isagogics, lasagna, lasagnas, lasagne, lasagnes, massage, massaged, massager, massagers, massages, massaging. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sag" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aag, asg, asv, cagg, Esag, Hssag, qag, sa, S'a, sab, saeg, saf, sagb, sagi, sagu, saig, saj, Salg, saq, sarg, sau, saug, sav, sayg, sbag, scag, segr, seig, sej, sg, sga, sgah, sgas, sgm, sgt, siag, sigg, sigi, siog, smag, sng, sog, sogt, spag, sqag, ssig, stg, syg, zagy, zarg, zav, zeag, zeg, ziag. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gas.

-1 letter: ag, as.

+1 letter: agas, ages, bags, dags, fags, gabs, gads, gaes, gags, gals, gams, gaps, gars, gash, gasp, gast, gats, gays, goas, hags, jags, lags, mags, nags, rags, saga, sage, sago, sags, sagy, sang, scag, shag, skag, slag, snag, stag, swag, tags, wags, zags.

+2 letters: aegis, agars, agers, aghas, agios, agism, agist, agmas, agons, agues, algas, angas, angst, argus, avgas, bangs, brags, cages, clags, crags, dagos, dangs, degas, drags, egads, fangs, flags, frags, gadis, gaffs, gages, gains, gaits, galas, gales, galls, gamas, gambs, games, gamps, gangs, gaols, gapes, garbs, gases, gasps, gassy, gasts, gates, gauds, gaums, gaurs, gauss, gawks, gawps, gawsy, gazes, gears, getas, ghast, ghats, gigas, glads, glans, glass, glias, gnars, gnash, gnats, gnaws, goads, goals, goats, grabs, grads, grams, grans, grasp, grass, grays, guans, guars, hangs, jaggs, kagus, mages, magus, ogams, pages, pangs, peags, quags, ragas, rages, ragis, sagas, sager, sages, saggy, sagos, sagum, saiga, sanga, sangh, sarge, saugh, scags, scrag, shags, sigma, skags, slags, slang, snags, spang, sprag, stage, stags, stagy, staig, stang, sugar, swage, swags, swang, tangs, togas, usage, vagus, vangs, vigas, wages, yagis, yangs, yogas, yugas.