bag

1 a flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag"

2 the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person); "his bag included two deer"

3 place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" [syn: base]

4 a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb" [syn: handbag, pocketbook, purse]

5 the quantity that a bag will hold; "he ate a large bag of popcorn" [syn: bagful]

6 a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes; "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him" [syn: traveling bag, grip, suitcase]

7 an ugly or ill-tempered woman; "he was romancing the old bag for her money" [syn: old bag]

8 mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) [syn: udder]

9 an activity that you like or at which you are superior; "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish" [syn: cup of tea, dish]

1 capture or kill, as in hunting; "bag a few pheasants"

2 hang loosely, like an empty bag

3 bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge [syn: bulge]

4 take unlawfully [syn: pocket]

5 put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries" [also: bagging, bagged]bagging n : coarse fabric used for bags or sacks [syn: sacking]bagging See bag

English

Verb

bagging

1. present participle of bag

Bagging can mean:

• In statistics, data mining and machine learning, bootstrap aggregating
• In mountaineering, peak bagging
• In medicine, ventilating a patient with a bag valve mask
• In agriculture, a form of reap hook bagging hook from verb to badge (or to bag) - harvest of cereal crops