tag vs term

tag

noun
  • A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content. 

  • Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist. 

  • Something mean and paltry; the rabble. 

  • A sheep in its first year. 

  • The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song. 

  • Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins. 

  • A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it". 

  • An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out." 

  • The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot. 

  • A person's name. 

  • Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely. 

  • A type of cardboard. 

  • The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue. 

  • A small label. 

  • A skin tag, an excrescence of skin. 

  • An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought"). 

  • A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers). 

  • A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag. 

  • A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls. 

  • A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it. 

  • A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language. 

verb
  • To mark (something) with one’s tag. 

  • To label (something). 

  • To remove dung tags from a sheep. 

  • To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand. 

  • To follow closely, accompany, tag along. 

  • To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag). 

  • To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags. 

  • to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman) 

  • To fasten; to attach. 

  • To mark with a tag (metadata for classification). 

  • To hit the ball hard. 

term

noun
  • A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept. 

  • A computer program that emulates a physical terminal. 

  • Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made. 

  • A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan. 

  • The time during which legal courts are open. 

  • Certain days on which rent is paid. 

  • Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length. 

  • The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. 

  • Relations among people. 

  • That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus. 

  • Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table. 

  • The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force. 

  • A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. 

  • An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart. 

  • A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal. 

  • With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception). 

  • One whose employment has been terminated 

  • Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year. 

  • Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract. 

verb
  • To phrase a certain way; to name or call. 

  • To terminate one's employment 

adj
  • Born or delivered at term. 

How often have the words tag and term occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )