Bag

/ˈbæɡ/ · noun

Meaning

A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods..

Definitions by Sense

1. A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
2. A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
3. (colloquial) One's preference.
4. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
5. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
6. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
7. (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
8. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

Example Sentences

Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.

They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag.

The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

He headed back to the bag.

A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.

the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents

He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.

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• bags
• bagging
• bagged

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