Pennant vs. Flag — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pennant and Flag
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Pennant
(Nautical) A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.
Flag
A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colours. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration.
Pennant
A flag or an emblem similar in shape to a ship's pennant.
Flag
A piece of cloth or similar material, typically oblong or square, attachable by one edge to a pole or rope and used as the symbol or emblem of a country or institution or as a decoration during public festivities
The American flag
Pennant
A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.
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Flag
A small piece of cloth attached at one edge to a pole and used as a marker or signal in various sports
The flag's up
Pennant
The championship symbolized by such a flag.
Flag
A variable used to indicate a particular property of the data in a record.
Pennant
A flag normally used by naval vessels to represent a special condition.
Flag
A flat stone slab, typically rectangular or square, used for paving.
Pennant
The broad pennant flown by commodores.
Flag
A plant with sword-shaped leaves that grow from a rhizome.
Pennant
The church pennant indicating religious services are taking place aboard ship.
Flag
Mark (an item) for attention or treatment in a specified way
The spellcheck program flags any words that are not in its dictionary
Pennant
The commissioning pennant flown on ceremonial occasions.
Flag
Signal to a vehicle or driver to stop, especially by waving one's arm
She flagged down a police patrol car
Pennant
(sports) The winning of a competition, represented by a flag.
The New York Yankees have won the American League pennant far more often than any other team.
Flag
Provide or decorate with a flag or flags.
Pennant
A commemorative flag, traditionally triangular and made of felt, typically used to show support for a particular athletic team.
Flag
Become tired or less enthusiastic or dynamic
If you begin to flag, there is an excellent cafe to revive you
Pennant
A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
Flag
A piece of cloth, usually rectangular, of distinctive color and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, or emblem.
Pennant
A sandstone between coal measures in parts of South Wales
Flag
National or other allegiance, as symbolized by a flag
Ships of the same flag.
Pennant
Either of two species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Macrodiplax, of the tropics and subtropics.
Flag
A ship carrying the flag of an admiral; a flagship.
Pennant
A small flag; a pennon. The narrow pennant, or long pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.
Flag
A marking device, such as a gummed strip of paper, attached to an object to attract attention or ease identification; a tab.
Pennant
The award given to the champion
Flag
The masthead of a newspaper.
Pennant
A flag longer than it is wide (and often tapering)
Flag
(Music) A cross stroke that halves the value of a note to which it is added.
Pennant
A long flag; often tapering
Flag
A distinctively shaped or marked tail, as of a dog or deer.
Flag
(Computers) A variable or memory location that stores true-or-false, yes-or-no information.
Flag
A plant, such as an iris or cattail, that has long sword-shaped leaves.
Flag
A flagstone.
Flag
To mark with a flag or flags for identification or ornamentation
Flag a parade route.
Flagging parts of a manuscript for later review.
Flag
To signal with or as if with a flag.
Flag
To signal to stop
Flag down a passing car.
Flag
To lose vigor or strength; weaken or diminish
The conversation flagged.
Flag
To pave with slabs of flagstone.
Flag
A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
Flag
An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
Flag
(nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
Flag
A signal flag.
Flag
The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
Flag
(computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a 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.
Flag
(computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
Flag
(aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
Flag
The game of capture the flag.
Flag
(geometry) 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.
Flag
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.
Flag
(television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
Flag
An apron.
Flag
A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.
Death flag
Raise the heroine's flags (in a galge)
Flag
Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
Flag
A slice of turf; a sod.
Flag
A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
Flag
(geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
Flag
To furnish or deck out with flags.
Flag
To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
Flag
(often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
Please flag down a taxi for me.
Flag
To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
To flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance
Flag
(often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
I've flagged up the need for further investigation into this.
Users of the Internet forum can flag others' posts as inappropriate.
Flag
(computing) To signal (an event).
The compiler flagged three errors.
Flag
(computing) To set a program variable to true.
Flag the debug option before running the program.
Flag
To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
Flag
(sports) To penalize for an infraction.
The defender was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Flag
To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
Flag
To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
White was winning positionally, but Black managed to flag him and win.
Flag
(firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
Flag
To fail, such as a class or an exam.
After he flagged Algebra, Mike was ineligible for the football team.
Flag
(intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
His strength flagged toward the end of the race.
Flag
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
Flag
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
Flag
To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
Flag
(transitive) To pave with flagstones.
Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.
Flag
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast.
Flag
To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the strength flags.
The pleasures of the town begin to flag.
Flag
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
Flag
To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
Nothing so flags the spirits.
Flag
To signal to with a flag or by waving the hand; as, to flag a train; also used with down; as, to flag down a cab.
Flag
To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
Flag
To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, or the like to arouse the animal's curiosity.
The antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag.
Flag
To furnish or deck out with flags.
Flag
To lay with flags of flat stones.
The sides and floor are all flagged with . . . marble.
Flag
That which flags or hangs down loosely.
Flag
A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; - commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
Flag
A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
Flag
One of the wing feathers next the body of a bird; - called also flag feather.
Flag
An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
Flag
A flat stone used for paving.
Flag
Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
Flag
Emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
Flag
Plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
Flag
A rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
Flag
A listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
Flag
Flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
Flag
Stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
Flag
A conspicuously marked or shaped tail
Flag
Communicate or signal with a flag
Flag
Provide with a flag;
Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately
Flag
Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
Flag
Decorate with flags;
The building was flagged for the holiday
Flag
Become less intense
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