TAGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tagged mean? 

• TAGGED (adjective)
  The adjective TAGGED has 1 sense:

1. bearing or marked with a label or tag

  Familiarity information: TAGGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bearing or marked with a label or tag

Synonyms:

labeled; labelled; tagged

Context example:

properly labeled luggage

 Context examples 

A combination of 3 fluorescent-tagged monoclonal antibodies.

(ImmunoCyt, NCI Thesaurus)

With the help of citizen scientists participating in a project called Galaxy Zoo, it was then tagged as a system of colliding galaxies.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

The annealed heteroduplexes, as well as other driver species are captured by the tagged nucleotide and removed from the mixture.

(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

Binding is then verified and visualized by applying other antibodies that have been tagged in some way.

(Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Spot Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

In the study, the researchers first tagged free-floating tumor cells in pigs with a special nanoparticle that contains magnetic properties. (In other words, they attached this magnetic molecule to the tumor cells.)

(Magnetic Wires May Soon Be Used in Your Veins to Detect Cancer Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Six—a box of monies, three pounds of Limousine gold-work, a pair of boots, silver tagged, and, lastly, a store of naping linen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Cellular structures called microtubules are tagged with a variety of chemical markers that can influence cell functions.

(Scientists unravel the mystery of the tubulin code, NIH)

In contrast, the researchers prevented cell death when they engineered the cells to also make a mutant s15 protein that could not be tagged by LRRK2.

(Too much protein may kill brain cells as Parkinson’s progresses, NINDS)

A study using radioisotope tagged blood components and a nuclear scanning machine to monitor the blood flow to the myocardium during or immediately following exercise.

(Nuclear Stress Test, NCI Thesaurus)

The contrast solution that the team developed contains a short piece of protein, or peptide, tagged with a minuscule magnet.

(Tell-tale biomarker detects early breast cancer, NIH)