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List / tuple array-types now respect the ERROR_ON_COPY flag (effectively disabling list / tuple support when the flag is activated) and there is a STORE_POINTERS flag, which when False (with ERROR_ON_COPY True) will disable wrapper operations storePointer mechanism.

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  1. noun A piece of cloth, usually rectangular, of distinctive color and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, or emblem.
  2. noun National or other allegiance, as symbolized by a flag: ships of the same flag.
  3. noun A ship carrying the flag of an admiral; a flagship.
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  • Running for the flag is a game in which the fleetness and bottom of the horse are tested perhaps more than the expertness of the rider. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of Schamyl, by J. Milton Mackie.
  • Those of us who live abroad know what needs changing in nepal, n the flag is the last thing we are worried about. —  United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
  • "How many times must Australians endure this crap?" he said, pointing out the flag was acting as a wind indicator to aid the crane operator. —  A Western Heart
  • The old flag is dimly lit behind a protective wall of glass and the adjoining gallery tells its unique and colorful history, including that pieces of the flag were actually given away as mementos or sold from time to time. —  The DC Traveler
  • Henry then drilled a shot just wide, but the flag was already up for offside and his effort would not have counted. —  TEAMtalk Football News
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flag:   flagging ·  flags ·  flagged
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  1. Origin unknown.
  2. Middle English flagge, reed, of Scandinavian origin.
  3. Possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse flögra, to flap about.
  4. Middle English flagge, piece of turf, from Old Norse flaga, slab of stone; see plāk-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Not found in Middle English, being a later form of Middle English flacken, English flack, hang loose; cf. Old Dutch flaggheren, vlaggheren, flag, droop: see flack.
  2. Early modern English flagge (= German flagge), of D. or Scandinavian origin: Old Dutch vlagghe, Dutch vlag = Swedish flagg = Danish flag, a flag, orig. of a ship's flag; connected with Swedish dial. flage, flutter in the wind, and ult. with English flag, flack, flacker, q. v. Cf. Icelandic flögra = Old High German flogarōn, flokrōn, flutter; Old High German flogezen, Middle High German vlogzen, vlokzen, flutter, flicker: connected with Icelandic fljūga (= Old High German fliogan, etc.), fly, = English fly.
  3. from flag, n.
  4. Early modern English flagge; from Middle English *flagge, flegge = Danish flæg, flag; prob. ult. the same as flag, as that which flutters in the wind: see flag, n.
  5. from Middle English flagge, turf, sod, from Icelandic flag, the spot where a piece of turf has been cut out, flaga, a flag or slab of stone, literally a ‘flake’ (cf. flagna, flake off, as skin or slough, flakna, flake off, split): see flake flaw flay, floe.
  6. Perhaps a particular use of flag.
 

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