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pennant
(Nautical) A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.
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  1. (Nautical) A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.
  2. (Sports) A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.
  3. A flag or an emblem similar in shape to a ship's pennant.
pennon
A long, narrow, triangular or swallow-tailed flag borne on a lance as an ensign, as formerly by knights and lancers
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  1. A long, narrow, triangular or swallow-tailed flag borne on a lance as an ensign, as formerly by knights and lancers
  2. A thin triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
  3. A pennant, banner, or flag.
banner
Any large sign, especially if constructed of soft material or fabric.
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  1. Any large sign, especially if constructed of soft material or fabric.
  2. (Internet, television) A type of advertisement in a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content. Contrast popup, interstitial.
  3. A piece of cloth bearing a design, motto, slogan, etc., sometimes attached to a staff and used as a battle standard
standard
Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
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  1. Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
  2. A piece of popular music that continues to be included in the repertoire of many bands, singers, etc. through the years
  3. (--- Mil.) The colors of a cavalry unit
streamer
A long narrow strip of material used for ornament or decoration.
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  1. A long narrow strip of material used for ornament or decoration.
  2. Any long, narrow strip of cloth, colored paper, ribbon, etc., hanging loose at one end
  3. A column of light shooting across the sky in the aurora borealis.
ensign
A standard or banner, as of a military unit.
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  1. A standard or banner, as of a military unit.
  2. A flag or banner; specif., a national flag, as one displayed on a ship
  3. A national flag displayed on ships and aircraft, often with the special insignia of a branch or unit of the armed forces.
emblem
An allegorical picture usually inscribed with a verse or motto presenting a moral lesson.
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  1. An allegorical picture usually inscribed with a verse or motto presenting a moral lesson.
  2. A distinctive badge, design, or device:
  3. A visible symbol of a thing, idea, class of people, etc.; object or representation that stands for or suggests something else
bunting
(Nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
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  1. (Nautical) A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
  2. Any of various songbirds, mostly of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
  3. Flags, or strips of cloth in the colors of the flag, used as holiday decorations
gonfalon
A banner suspended from a crosspiece, especially as a standard in an ecclesiastical procession or as the ensign of a medieval Italian republic.
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  1. A banner suspended from a crosspiece, especially as a standard in an ecclesiastical procession or as the ensign of a medieval Italian republic.
  2. A flag hanging from a crosspiece instead of an upright staff, usually ending in streamers; esp., such a standard of any of the medieval republics of Italy
oriflamme
Any battle standard
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  1. Any battle standard
  2. The ancient royal standard of France, a red silk banner with flame-shaped streamers
  3. An inspiring standard or symbol.
jack
Any of various machines used to lift, hoist, or move something heavy a short distance
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  1. Any of various machines used to lift, hoist, or move something heavy a short distance
  2. Any of a tropical, marine family (Carangidae) of predatory, silvery, percoid, game and food fishes with widely forked tails, including the pompanos and yellowtails
  3. (Games) A game played with a set of small six-pointed metal pieces and a small ball, the object being to pick up the pieces in various combinations.
stars and stripes
The flag of the United States.
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  1. The flag of the United States.
  2. (Proper) The flag of the United States, with seven horizontal red stripes and six white ones, the colors alternating, and in the upper left corner a blue field with white stars (now 50), one for each state
old-glory
The flag of the United States.
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  1. The flag of the United States.
union jack
(Proper) The national flag of the United Kingdom
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  1. (Proper) The national flag of the United Kingdom
  2. A flag consisting entirely of a union.
  3. A jack, or flag, consisting only of a union, esp. of the union of a national flag
tricolor
The French flag
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  1. The French flag
  2. The Irish flag
  3. A flag having three colors in large areas; esp., the flag of France, with three broad, vertical stripes of blue, white, and red
jolly-roger
A black flag bearing the emblematic white skull and crossbones of a pirate ship.
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  1. A black flag bearing the emblematic white skull and crossbones of a pirate ship.
blue-flag
Any of several irises having blue or blue-violet flowers, especially Iris versicolor of eastern North America.
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  1. Any of several irises having blue or blue-violet flowers, especially Iris versicolor of eastern North America.
  2. Any of several species of iris with blue flowers
fleur-de-lis
A similar design used as a decorative motif.
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  1. A similar design used as a decorative motif.
  2. (Heraldry) A design representing a flower whose three petals are joined together at the bottom, often used in heraldry, where it is particularly associated with the French monarchy.
  3. (--- Heraldry) A device consisting of a stylized three-petaled iris flower, used as the armorial emblem of the kings of France.
sweet-flag
A perennial marsh plant (Acorus calamus) of the arum family, with sword-shaped leaves, small, green flowers, and a sweet-scented rhizome
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  1. A perennial marsh plant (Acorus calamus) of the arum family, with sword-shaped leaves, small, green flowers, and a sweet-scented rhizome
  2. A perennial herb (Acorus calamus) native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, growing in marshy places and having grasslike leaves, minute greenish flowers borne on a thick spadix, and aromatic rhizomes used in medicine and perfumery.
  3. A perennial wetland plant, Acorus calamus, with an aromatic medicinal root, formerly used to strew floors, also known as calamus
wave
To have the form of a series of curves or undulations
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  1. To have the form of a series of curves or undulations
  2. To move or swing (something) as a signal; motion with (the hand, arms, etc.)
  3. To signal by moving a hand, arm, light, etc. to and fro
hail
To name by way of tribute; salute as
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  1. To name by way of tribute; salute as
  2. To welcome, greet, etc. with or as with cheers; acclaim
  3. Precipitation in the form of rounded pellets of ice and hard snow that usually falls during thunderstorms. Hail forms when raindrops are blown up and down within a cloud, passing repeatedly through layers of warm and freezing air and collecting layers of ice until they are too heavy for the winds to keep them from falling.
languish
To become downcast or pine away in longing:
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  1. To become downcast or pine away in longing:
  2. To lose vigor or vitality; fail in health; become weak; droop
  3. To be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor:
dwindle
To become gradually less until little remains.
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  1. To become gradually less until little remains.
  2. To cause to dwindle:
  3. To break; to disperse.
wane
To decrease gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity:
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  1. To decrease gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity:
  2. To decline in power, importance, prosperity, influence, etc.
  3. To become less intense, bright, strong, etc.; grow dim or faint, as a light
banderole
A representation of a ribbon or scroll bearing an inscription.
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  1. A representation of a ribbon or scroll bearing an inscription.
  2. A little banner, flag, or streamer.
  3. A narrow flag or pennant, esp. one attached to a lance or carried at the masthead of a ship
banner
A person etc. who bans something.
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  1. A person etc. who bans something.
  2. (Internet, television) A type of advertisement in a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content. Contrast popup, interstitial.
  3. A piece of cloth bearing a design, motto, slogan, etc., sometimes attached to a staff and used as a battle standard
banneret
A small banner.
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  1. A small banner.
  2. A noble, knighted feudal lord who has the right to lead his vassals to battle under his own banner
  3. A feudal knight ranking between a knight bachelor and a baron, who was entitled to lead men into battle under his own standard.
color
Vividness or variety in expression:
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  1. Vividness or variety in expression:
  2. Any color other than black, white, or gray; chromatic color: color is distinguished by the qualities of hue (as red, brown, yellow, etc.), lightness (for pigmented surfaces) or brightness (for light itself), and saturation (the degree of intensity of a hue)
  3. Color charge.
ensign
A standard or banner, as of a military unit.
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  1. A standard or banner, as of a military unit.
  2. A flag or banner; specif., a national flag, as one displayed on a ship
  3. A national flag displayed on ships and aircraft, often with the special insignia of a branch or unit of the armed forces.
jack
Any of various machines used to lift, hoist, or move something heavy a short distance
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  1. Any of various machines used to lift, hoist, or move something heavy a short distance
  2. (Hunting) A torch or light used to attract fish or game at night
  3. (Games) A game played with a set of small six-pointed metal pieces and a small ball, the object being to pick up the pieces in various combinations.
oriflamme
The red or orange-red flag of the Abbey of Saint Denis in France, used as a standard by the early kings of France.
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  1. The red or orange-red flag of the Abbey of Saint Denis in France, used as a standard by the early kings of France.
  2. The ancient royal standard of France, a red silk banner with flame-shaped streamers
  3. An inspiring standard or symbol.
pennant
(Sports) A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.
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  1. (Sports) A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.
  2. (Nautical) A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.
  3. A flag or an emblem similar in shape to a ship's pennant.
pennon
A pennant, banner, or flag.
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  1. A pennant, banner, or flag.
  2. A thin triangular flag or streamer, especially as hung from the end of a lance or spear.
  3. A long, narrow, triangular or swallow-tailed flag borne on a lance as an ensign, as formerly by knights and lancers
standard
Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
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  1. Something, such as a practice or a product, that is widely recognized or employed, especially because of its excellence.
  2. The proportion of pure gold or silver and base metal prescribed for use in coinage
  3. (--- Mil.) The colors of a cavalry unit
streamer
A long narrow strip of material used for ornament or decoration.
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  1. A long narrow strip of material used for ornament or decoration.
  2. Any long, narrow strip of cloth, colored paper, ribbon, etc., hanging loose at one end
  3. A column of light shooting across the sky in the aurora borealis.
semaphore
(Intransitive) To signal using (as if using) a semaphore.
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  1. (Intransitive) To signal using (as if using) a semaphore.
  2. To send (a message) or to signal by semaphore.
  3. To signal by semaphore
signal
To make known or communicate (information) by signals
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  1. To make known or communicate (information) by signals
  2. A fluctuating quantity or impulse whose variations represent information. The amplitude or frequency of voltage, current, electric field strength, light, and sound can be varied as signals representing information.
  3. To cause an effect in (a cell) by the release of a chemical, such as a neurotransmitter or hormone.
droop
To bend or sag gradually:
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  1. To bend or sag gradually:
  2. To lose vitality or strength; become weakened; languish
  3. (Intransitive) To sink or hang downward; to sag.
sag
To lose vigor, firmness, or resilience:
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  1. To lose vigor, firmness, or resilience:
  2. To wear one's pants with the waist below the hips, so that one's underwear is visible.
  3. To cause to sag.
wilt
To feel or exhibit the effects of fatigue or exhaustion; weaken markedly:
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  1. To feel or exhibit the effects of fatigue or exhaustion; weaken markedly:
  2. To become limp or flaccid; droop:
  3. To cause to droop or lose freshness:
decline
To cause to bend or slope downward or aside
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  1. To cause to bend or slope downward or aside
  2. To bend, turn, or slope downward or aside
  3. To draw to a gradual close:
degenerate
To lose former normal or higher qualities
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  1. To lose former normal or higher qualities
  2. To fall below a normal or desirable state, especially functionally or morally; deteriorate:
  3. To decline or become debased morally, culturally, etc.
deteriorate
To make or become worse; lower in quality or value; depreciate
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  1. To make or become worse; lower in quality or value; depreciate
  2. To grow worse; degenerate:
  3. To diminish or impair in quality, character, or value:
fade
(Sports) To swerve from a straight course, especially in the direction of a slice.
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  1. (Sports) To swerve from a straight course, especially in the direction of a slice.
  2. To become less distinct; lose color, brilliance, etc.
  3. (Football) To move back from the line of scrimmage. Used of a quarterback.
fail
To give such a grade of failure to (a student):
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  1. To give such a grade of failure to (a student):
  2. To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example):
  3. To break; not to succeed in reaching a standard or goal; to perform ineptly or faultily; to become bankrupt. To break; not to succeed in reaching a standard or goal; to perform ineptly or faultily; to become bankrupt.
languish
To exist or continue in miserable or disheartening conditions:
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  1. To exist or continue in miserable or disheartening conditions:
  2. To become downcast or pine away in longing:
  3. To be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor:
sink
To cause to submerge or go beneath the surface
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  1. To cause to submerge or go beneath the surface
  2. To fall or drop to a lower level, especially to go down slowly or in stages:
  3. To invest or spend, often without getting a return or adequate value:
wane
To decline in power, importance, prosperity, influence, etc.
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  1. To decline in power, importance, prosperity, influence, etc.
  2. To decrease gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity:
  3. To become less intense, bright, strong, etc.; grow dim or faint, as a light
waste
To be used up or worn down gradually; become smaller or fewer by gradual loss
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  1. To be used up or worn down gradually; become smaller or fewer by gradual loss
  2. To pass without being put to use:
  3. To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose:
weaken
To make or become weak or weaker.
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  1. To make or become weak or weaker.
  2. (Intransitive) To become weaker.
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  • A small Colombian flag was neatly tucked in his open mouth.

  • Still, it was a red flag to what could have happened.

  • That's the whole agenda; just rally 'round the flag, boys, chin held high.

  • The people seemed to regard the American flag as the harbinger of a new era.

  • In December 1654 Penn and Venables sailed for the West Indies with orders to attack the Spanish colonies and the French shipping; and for the first time since the Plantagenets an English fleet appeared in the Mediterranean, where Blake upheld the supremacy of the English flag, made a treaty with the dey of Algiers, destroyed the castles and ships of the dey of Tunis at Porto Farina on the 4th of April 1655, and liberated the English prisoners captured by the pirates.

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