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# tagger

noun (a tagger, taggers)

«tagger» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A tagger is a person who sprays or writes their nickname or sign (a tag) on walls, trains or buildings, often without permission, which is illegal vandalism. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#m1)
2. In the playground game of tag (UK: tig, it), the tagger is the player who chases and touches the others. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#m2)
3. (computing) A tagger is a computer program that labels things automatically, for example labelling each word in a sentence as noun, verb or adjective (a part-of-speech tagger). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#m3)
4. A tagger is also a person or tool that attaches tags or labels, as on clothes or animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and citizenship lessons, taggers and graffiti raise questions about property and art. In the playground, the tagger is "it". In computing and language science, taggers help computers understand text. Phrases: "graffiti tagger", "part-of-speech tagger".

### Examples

- Taggers had sprayed their names on the bus shelter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#x1)
- The council paid to clean up the taggers' graffiti. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#x2)
- In the game, Mia was the tagger and chased us round the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#x3)
- If the tagger touches you, you become the tagger. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#x4)
- A part-of-speech tagger marks "run" as a verb or a noun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#x5)
- The scientist used a tagger to put tracking tags on the birds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#x6)
- Graffiti by taggers is against the law without permission. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/#x7)

### Note

Countable. In the UK the chase game is often called "tig" or "it", in the USA "tag". A graffiti tag is a quick signature; a "piece" is a large, artistic graffiti picture.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tagger» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tagger/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tagger» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tagger.html) on Mova free.