Tag Explained

Tag, TAG, or tagging may refer to:

Identification and tracking

• Tag (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 surveillance using a device attached to a person or vehicle
• Kimball tag, predecessor to the barcode, used to identify products to a stock control system
• Pet tag, an ID tag worn by pets
• Price tag, a label declaring the price of an item for sale
• QR code or mobile tag, a type of matrix barcode
• RFID tag, passive electronic inventory 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
• Tagging (stamp)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Tag (comics), a Marvel character
• Tag, a member of The Squirrels from the animated preschool show Hey Duggee
• Tag, the main character of the game ModNation Racers
• Tag, the main character of the TV series Rimba Racer

Films

• Tag (2015 film), Japan
• Tag (2018 film), US

Music

• "Price Tag", a 2011 song by Jessie J
• Tag (barbershop music), a dramatic variation in the last section of a song
• TAG Recordings, a record label
• Producer tag, a brief sound clip as the signature of the producer of the music track

Television

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

Theatre

• TAG Theatre Company, a touring theatre company in Scotland
• The Theatre Arts Guild or TAG, a community theatre in Halifax Nova Scotia

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Tag (advertisement), a sportswear commercial
• , 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
• Tag Games, developer in Scotland
• TAG Group, Luxembourg
• TAG Heuer, watchmaker
• TAG Oil, New Zealand
• Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway, reporting mark
• Transportes Aéreos Guatemaltecos, a Guatemalan airline

Computing

• TAG (BBS), bulletin board software
• Tag (Facebook), a link in Facebook
• Tag (metadata) (a more flexible form of categories)
• Tag (programming), for passing parameters
• Tags (Unicode block), with formatting tag characters
• Tag, an element in several markup languages
  • HTML tag
• Revision tag, for a specific revision
• Audio tag, see
• Tag files, an index of source code identifiers
• Tag system, a deterministic computational model
• Tag URI, a unique identifier protocol
• Technical Architecture Group, a W3C group
• Tag management system, used to manage the life cycle of digital marketing tags

Government and political organizations

• State adjutant general, US
• Tactical Assault Group, Australia
• Tamils Against Genocide
• Treatment Action Group, an HIV/AIDS activist organization
• -Tag, a German word for "Diet" or "Assembly" (see: Bundestag)

Language and education

• Tag (Hebrew writing), a decoration
• Tag (LeapFrog), an interactive reading device
• Hashtag
• Part-of-speech tagging
• Tag question, a statement converted to a question
• Talented and Gifted program, in education
  • School for the Talented and Gifted, Dallas, Texas, US
• Tree-adjoining grammar

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), German scenic designer and costume designer
• Kezban Tağ (born 1993), Turkish footballer

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 "Tag"

Other uses

• Bohol–Panglao International Airport, Philippines, IATA code
• Former Tagbilaran Airport, Bohol, Philippines, IATA code
• Topological abelian group, in mathematics
• Trans Austria Gas Pipeline
• Transcendental argument for the existence of God

See also

• T&G (disambiguation) (T and G)
• Tagged (disambiguation)
• Tagger (disambiguation)
• Tagline, a form of advertising slogan