Difference between Rag and Tag

What is the difference between Rag and Tag?

Rag as a verb is to scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. while Tag as a verb is to label (something).

Rag

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner. To haze, use physical violence in school setting.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment. Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress. A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture. A ragged edge. A sail, or any piece of canvas. A piece of ragtime music. A newspaper, magazine. A card that appears to help no one. A low card

Example sentence: Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

Tag

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To label (something).To mark (something) with one's tag (graffiti).To remove dung tags from a sheep.To hit the ball hard.To put a runner out by touching him with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small label.A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the others, who then becomes "it".A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.A type of cardboard.Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the person who makes the graffiti.A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").a vehicle number plate.An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.A keyword or term associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification.

Example sentence: When you're playing tag in Roblox; or when you're working in a pizza restaurant; or when you're flying as a bird - you're there to have fun and be with your friends and to create things together.

We hope you now know whether to use Rag or Tag in your sentence.

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