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tagger

tagger

1 4.8
A program that adds labels to photos or documents to help find them
  • noun
  • /ˈtæɡər/
  • Texting
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  • Personalization is suitable for power users (very active movie watchers, taggers, and so forth).

Examples

  • The tagger automatically assigns labels to photos, making it easier to organize them by category.

  • All of this on a 27" screen was wonderful, and now to keep this, I can never upgrade again as EN5 has lost this in favor of wasted screen space and a system seemingly geared to occasional users and geo-taggers.

    Blog text (19)
  • There's a new tagger operating around town.

    Blog text (9)
  • So all you're going to do is click get Shop Tagger, click Add to Chrome.

  • So all you're going to do is click Get Shop Tagger, click Add to Chrome.

  • Within a short time, taggers put their mark on the now accessible cleared section.

    Blog text (27)
  • "I.A. probably left it there to catch the tagger," Duwayne said.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Differential Tagger

    Academic text (1991)
  • Using a tagger in the content management system helps improve search results by adding relevant keywords.

  • Our new tagger quickly identifies and organizes documents based on their content type.

Synonyms

labeler
vstagger
  • US
1 2.7

A person or machine that puts tags on products

is a software feature that automatically creates descriptive keywords for digital content
tagging program
vstagger
  • Texting
3.8

A computer program that adds keywords to images or videos to help find them

is broader, applying to any digital content beyond multimedia
annotator
vstagger
6.2

A person or tool that adds notes and labels to text and data to explain it

automatically adds metadata for search rather than manual explanatory notes

Compounds

part-of-speech tagger
  • Specialized
4.6

A computer program that labels each word as a noun, verb, or adjective

POS tagger
  • Specialized
6.4

A computer program that labels words in text with parts of speech like noun or verb

sense tagger
  • Specialized
6.9

A computer program that labels words in text with their meaning

Surface Forms

tagger singular
taggers plural

Morphology

tagger = tag (transparent) = tag + er

Productive agentive noun formation; the software tool is 'that which tags'.

Etymology

Tagger comes from the simple word tag meaning 'label' or 'mark' and the ending -er meaning 'one who does something'. So a tagger is a tool or person that adds tags to digital items, which explains its use for software that automatically gives keywords to photos or posts.