Flag

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.

The flag of France has three vertical stripes.

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

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

[…] and then the OFF flag popped up and the needle went dead.

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.

We call P (combinatorially) regular if its automorphism group Γ(P) is transitive on its flags.

Roughly speaking, chiral polytopes have half as many possible automorphisms as have regular polytopes. More technically, the n-polytope P is chiral if it has two orbits of flags under its group Γ(P), with adjacent flags in different orbits.

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.

Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.

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

set a death flag

raise the heroine's flags (in a galge)

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

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.

Please flag down a taxi for me.

The electric locomotive is accompanied by a shunter who, in addition to his normal duties, flags the trains over the unprotected level crossings and opens the gates through which the line passes.

to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance

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

Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate.

The compiler flagged three errors.

Flag the debug option before running the program.

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.

The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.

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.”

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

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

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.

She will avert her tail to the side (flagging), standing still when the male mounts.

His strength flagged toward the end of the race.

He now sees a spirit has been raised against him, and he only watches till it begin to flag.

About half way to Wamphray, they met Mitchell's engine. Her speed was flagging badly. Steam was low, and the fire nearly out.

The sides took it in turns to err and excite before Newcastle flagged and Arsenal signalled their top-four credentials by blowing the visitors away.

as loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast

The Thousand Loves , that arm thy potent Eye , Must drop their Quivers , flag their Wings

there is nothing that flags the Spirits, disorders the Blood, and enfeebles the whole Body of Man, as intense Studies.

[T]he ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared by being lacked. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

And laden barges float By banks of myosote; And scented flag and golden flower-de-lys Delay the loitering boat.

On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.

Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.