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Tagging vs. Graffiti — What's the Difference?

Tagging vs. Graffiti — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tagging and Graffiti

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Tagging

A strip of leather, paper, metal, or plastic attached to something or hung from a wearer's neck to identify, classify, or label
Sale tags on all coats and dresses.

Graffiti

Graffiti (both singular and plural; the singular graffito is rarely used except in archeology) is writing or drawings made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire.Graffiti is a controversial subject.

Tagging

The plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace.

Graffiti

Writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place
The station was covered in graffiti

Tagging

The contrastingly colored tip of an animal's tail.
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Graffiti

Write or draw graffiti on (something)
The graffitied walls

Tagging

A dirty, matted lock of wool.

Graffiti

Drawings or inscriptions made on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and so as to be seen by the public.

Tagging

A loose lock of hair.

Graffiti

Drawings or words drawn on a surface in a public place, usually made without authorization.
The underpass is a popular place for graffiti artists.
The city council spends thousands of pounds removing graffiti from public buildings.

Tagging

A rag; a tatter.

Graffiti

Informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions.

Tagging

A small, loose fragment
I heard only tags and snippets of what was being said.

Graffiti

(transitive) To mark a surface with such images.

Tagging

An ornamental flourish, especially at the end of a signature.

Graffiti

Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii.

Tagging

A designation or epithet, especially an unwelcome one
He did not take kindly to the tag of pauper.

Graffiti

Any writings or drawings on a surface in a public place, placed there without authorization of the owner of the object on which it is written. Such graffiti are usually unwelcome, and are considered as form of vandalism.

Tagging

A brief quotation used in a discourse to give it an air of erudition or authority
Shakespearean tags.

Graffiti

A rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls

Tagging

A cliché, saw, or similar short, conventional idea used to embellish a discourse
These tags of wit and wisdom bore me.

Tagging

The refrain or last lines of a song or poem.

Tagging

The closing lines of a speech in a play; a cue.

Tagging

A label assigned to identify data in memory.

Tagging

A sequence of characters in a markup language used to provide information, such as formatting specifications, about a document.

Tagging

A metatag.

Tagging

(Anatomy) A small outgrowth or polyp
A skin tag.

Tagging

(Slang) A piece of graffiti featuring text, especially the author's name, rather than a picture
“Instead of a cursive linear tag, Super Kool painted his name along the exterior of a subway car in huge block pink and yellow letters” (Eric Scigliano).

Tagging

(Games) A children's game in which one player pursues the others until that player is able to touch one of the other players, who then in turn becomes the pursuer.

Tagging

(Baseball) The act of tagging a base runner.

Tagging

(Sports) The act of tagging a ball carrier in touch football.

Tagging

To label, identify, or recognize with a tag or other identifier
I tagged him as a loser.

Tagging

To put a ticket on (a motor vehicle) for a traffic or parking violation.

Tagging

To add as an appendage to
Tagged an extra paragraph on the letter.

Tagging

To follow closely
Excited children tagged the circus parade to the end of its route.

Tagging

To cut the tags from (sheep).

Tagging

To add a taggant to
Explosives that were tagged with coded microscopic bits of plastic.

Tagging

To incorporate into (a compound) a more readily detected substance whereby the compound can be detected and its metabolic or chemical history followed.

Tagging

(Slang) To mark or vandalize (a surface) with a graffiti tag
Tagged the subway walls.

Tagging

To follow after; accompany
Tagged after me everywhere.
Insisted on tagging along.

Tagging

To touch (another player) in the game of tag.

Tagging

(Baseball) To touch (a base runner) with the ball in order to make a putout.

Tagging

(Sports) To touch (a ball carrier) to end a play in touch football.

Tagging

Present participle of tag

Tagging

The act by which something is tagged.

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