flag

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.

   “The vote in the Bundestag (parliament) on Thursday makes defiling foreign flags equal to the crime of defiling the German flag. […] The new law also applies to acts of defilement besides burning, such as publicly ripping a flag up.”

2. isim The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.

   “The flag of France has three vertical stripes.”

3. isim A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
4. isim A signal flag.
5. isim The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
6. isim A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
7. isim In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.

   “This will be used as a help message if the user passes in the --help flag, like so: […]”

8. isim A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.

   “I was shooting an IFR approach down the San Francisco slot, when all of a sudden the ILS flag popped up.”

9. isim The game of capture the flag.
10. isim A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.

    “A flag of P is a sequence (F₀, F₁, ..., Fₘ) of faces of P such that dim Fᵢ = i for each i and Fᵢ is a side of Fᵢ₊₁ for each i < m.[…]A regular polytope in X is a polytope P in X whose group of symmetries in <P> acts transitively on its flags.”

11. isim A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
12. isim A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.

    “At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.”

13. isim An apron.

    “Suppose you try a different tack, / And on the square you flash your flag?”

14. isim An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.

    “set a death flag”

15. isim A groat; fourpence.

    “[…] the orator pulled out a tremendous black doll, bought for a ‘flag’ (fourpence) of a retired rag-merchant, and dressed up in Oriental style.”

16. fiil To furnish or deck out with flags.
17. fiil To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.

    “Walcott was, briefly, awarded a penalty when he was upended in the box but referee Phil Dowd reversed his decision because Bendtner had been flagged offside.”

18. fiil To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.

    “Please flag down a taxi for me.”

19. fiil To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.

    “to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance”

20. fiil To note, mark or point out for attention.

    “I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.”

21. fiil To signal (an event).

    “The compiler flagged three errors.”

22. fiil To set a program variable to true.

    “Flag the debug option before running the program.”

23. fiil To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.

    “This method of hunting, however, is not so much practised now as formerly, as the antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag.”

24. fiil To penalize for an infraction.

    “The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.”

25. fiil To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.

    “Mark Dvoretsky (2014), For Friends & Colleagues, volume 1, →ISBN: “Indeed, I usually spent an hour to an hour and a half on my game, never found myself in time pressure, never once flagged in my entire life, except in blitz games, of course.””

26. fiil To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.

    “White was winning positionally, but Black managed to flag him and win.”

27. fiil To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
28. fiil To fail, such as a class or an exam.

    “After he flagged Algebra, Mike was ineligible for the football team.”

29. fiil In female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.

    “During estrus, most bitches will flirt with males by backing up to them, flagging their tails in the males’ faces, urinating frequently, and generally acting seductive.”

30. fiil To weaken, become feeble.

    “His strength flagged toward the end of the race.”