Meaning of "gag" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GAG

Gaggen; perhaps imitative of a gasping sound.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF GAG

gag  [ɡæɡ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAG

Gag is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb gag in English.

WHAT DOES GAG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gag

A gag is usually a device designed to prevent speech, often as a restraint device to stop the subject from calling for help. This is usually done by blocking the mouth, partially or completely, or attempting to prevent the tongue, lips, or jaw from moving in the normal patterns of speech. They are often less effective in reality than in crime fiction. They carry a strong risk of killing the victim by suffocation. The more "effective" a gag appears to be, the more hazardous it is: for example, duct tape is fairly effective but is hazardous if for some reason the subject cannot breathe freely through the nose. The use of gags is commonly depicted in crime fiction, particularly in comics and novels. It is also often used in movies, such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Very rarely, courts have been known to gag unruly defendants; Bobby Seale was the most famous case. Occasionally a cloth over-the-mouth gag is used not to prevent speech but to keep dust and aerosols out of the lungs.

Definition of gag in the English dictionary

The first definition of gag in the dictionary is to stop up, esp with a piece of cloth, etc, to prevent him or her from speaking or crying out. Other definition of gag is to suppress or censor. Gag is also to retch or cause to retch.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GAG

PRESENT

Present

I gag

you gag

he/she/it gags

we gag

you gag

they gag

Present continuous

I am gagging

you are gagging

he/she/it is gagging

we are gagging

you are gagging

they are gagging

Present perfect

I have gagged

you have gagged

he/she/it has gagged

we have gagged

you have gagged

they have gagged

Present perfect continuous

I have been gagging

you have been gagging

he/she/it has been gagging

we have been gagging

you have been gagging

they have been gagging

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I gagged

you gagged

he/she/it gagged

we gagged

you gagged

they gagged

Past continuous

I was gagging

you were gagging

he/she/it was gagging

we were gagging

you were gagging

they were gagging

Past perfect

I had gagged

you had gagged

he/she/it had gagged

we had gagged

you had gagged

they had gagged

Past perfect continuous

I had been gagging

you had been gagging

he/she/it had been gagging

we had been gagging

you had been gagging

they had been gagging

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will gag

you will gag

he/she/it will gag

we will gag

you will gag

they will gag

Future continuous

I will be gagging

you will be gagging

he/she/it will be gagging

we will be gagging

you will be gagging

they will be gagging

Future perfect

I will have gagged

you will have gagged

he/she/it will have gagged

we will have gagged

you will have gagged

they will have gagged

Future perfect continuous

I will have been gagging

you will have been gagging

he/she/it will have been gagging

we will have been gagging

you will have been gagging

they will have been gagging

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would gag

you would gag

he/she/it would gag

we would gag

you would gag

they would gag

Conditional continuous

I would be gagging

you would be gagging

he/she/it would be gagging

we would be gagging

you would be gagging

they would be gagging

Conditional perfect

I would have gag

you would have gag

he/she/it would have gag

we would have gag

you would have gag

they would have gag

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been gagging

you would have been gagging

he/she/it would have been gagging

we would have been gagging

you would have been gagging

they would have been gagging

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you gag
we let´s gag
you gag

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to gag

Past participle

gagged

Present Participle

gagging

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «GAG»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «gag» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of gag

choke · crack · curb · funny · heave · jest · joke · muffle · muzzle · pun · quieten · quip · restraint · retch · sally · silence · stifle · subdue · suppress · tie · wisecrack · witticism

TRANSLATION OF GAG

Find out the translation of gag to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of gag from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gag» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 塞口物
• Translator English - Spanish: mordaza
• English: gag
• Translator English - Hindi: धोखा
• Translator English - Arabic: هفوة
• Translator English - Russian: кляп
• Translator English - Portuguese: mordaça
• Translator English - Bengali: ঠাট্টা
• Translator English - French: bâillon
• Translator English - Malay: Gag
• Translator English - German: Knebel
• Translator English - Japanese: さるぐつわ
• Translator English - Korean: 재갈
• Translator English - Javanese: Gagak
• Translator English - Vietnamese: chấm dứt
• Translator English - Tamil: வாந்தியெடுக்கும்
• Translator English - Marathi: तोंड बांधणे
• Translator English - Turkish: tıkaç
• Translator English - Italian: bavaglio
• Translator English - Polish: gag
• Translator English - Ukrainian: кляп
• Translator English - Romanian: gag
• Translator English - Greek: gag
• Translator English - Afrikaans: gag
• Translator English - Swedish: gag
• Translator English - Norwegian: gag

10 QUOTES WITH «GAG»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word gag.

1

Sergio Aragones

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

2

Sergio Aragones

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.

3

Jonathan Banks

I honestly do feel - and I hope I don't gag anybody if they read this - but I feel like I'm one of the luckiest people in the world.

4

Carl Barks

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.

5

Michael Caine

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

6

Jimmy Carr

I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.

7

Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.

8

Jim Davis

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.

9

Adrian Edmondson

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

10

Robert Englund

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAG»

Discover the use of gag in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gag and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Gag

Follow the exciting adventures of this young animal lover as she learns more of God and His character through her many adventures in The Dixie Morris Animal Adventures.

Lovechild, 1995

Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of ...

Stating the need for democratic reform in the form of organized public protest, a history of American political dissent charges the Bush administration with forsaking democracy in favor of preserving the American oligarchy.

Lewis H. Lapham, 2004

Shrek Gag Book

Collects trivia, jokes, riddles, puns, and quotes about bodily functions and life in Shrek's swamp.

R. E. Volting, Peter Lerangis, 2001

Gag Order

Gary Cass. tional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.1 Yet this continued ...

Gary Cass, 2005

Family: The Ties that Bind-- and Gag!

The well-known humorist takes a witty, compassionate, poignant, and nostalgic look at the small and large triumphs of American family life in the 80s

Erma Bombeck, 1988

Regulation of Gag Trafficking During Retrovirus Assembly and ...

Retroviral Gag polyproteins are necessary and sufficient for virus budding, but little is known about how thousands of Gag polyproteins are transported to the budding sites.

Jing Jin, 2007

Millions of Cats

How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions?

Wanda Gag, 1996

The Girlhood Diary of Wanda Gag, 1908-1909: Portrait of a ...

This popular series opens the door to the thoughts and feelings of famous and not-so-famous young people throughout history.

Wanda Gág, Megan O'Hara, 2000

Characterization of the Interaction Between HIV-1 Gag and ...

In Vitro Characterization of the Interaction Between HIV-1 Gag and Human Lysyl- tRNA Synthetase 2.1 Abstract HIV-1 viral assembly is mediated by multiple protein-protein and protein- nucleic acid interactions. Human tRNALys3 is used as the ...

Brandie J. Kovaleski, 2007

HIV Interactions with Host Cell Proteins

In 2005, we identified an interaction between AP-3 and HIV Gag (Dong et al. 2005). Specifically, the delta subunit of AP-3 (AP-3d) binds to helix 1 of the MA region on HIV-1 Gag. This interaction is important in the productive pathway of particle ...

Paul Spearman, Eric O. Freed, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gag is used in the context of the following news items.

Watch: Claire and Jamie Have Laughing Fits in 'Outlander' Gag Reel

The “Outlander” team presented a gag reel from the first season of the Starz series at a panel at Comic-Con on Saturday. Sam Heughan and ... «Variety, Jul 15»

Sorry, Slate: 'Gag order' was put on Christian bakers

On Monday, Slate published an article criticizing The Daily Signal's coverage headlined “No, Oregon Did Not 'Gag' That Anti-Gay Bakery.”. «WND.com, Jul 15»

How The Story of Reason's Subpoena and Gag Order Went Public

Then came a gag order from U.S. District Court, meaning Reason could not write or speak publicly about the subpoena or gag order—even to ... «Reason, Jul 15»

Christian bakers blast Oregon gag order as they draw huge online …

... discriminating against a lesbian couple in 2013 have denounced the supposed gag order that prevents them from speaking about the case. «ChristianToday, Jul 15»

The Supernatural Gag Reel Will Make Your Day

The fans packed Comic-Con's biggest room on Sunday morning to see what Supernaturalstars Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, ... «seattlepi.com, Jul 15»

Repressive Spanish 'Gag Law' Must Alert Latin American Countries

Gloria Munoz, director of the Mexican Desinformemonos, said that Spain's Public Security Law, the so-called gag law, is not only threatening ... «Sputnik International, Jul 15»

LDP issues gag order to lawmakers on TV survey

Executives of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party issued a gag order to lawmakers in connection with a survey conducted by Tokyo ... «Asahi Shimbun, Jul 15»

Gag order granted in Ajibade death case

According to the Chatham County District Attorney's Office, Judge James Bass has granted a gag order in the Matthew Ajibade death case. «WTOC, Jul 15»

In Waco biker case, making noise and news, despite the gag order …

Despite the gag order in the prosecution of 177 bikers in Waco, one lawyer has still found a way to make some noise and news. Dallas attorney ... «Chron.com, Jul 15»

Gag order lifted: Two Israelis held captive in Gaza

Possibly mentally ill Israeli Ethiopian apparently crossed border fence on his own volition in September 2014, and then captured by Hamas; ... «Ynetnews, Jul 15»