When it comes to flags what does hoist and fly mean?
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hoist is putting it on the rope and pulling it up\nfly is leaving it on the rope to blow in the wind
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It means to ride on the back of something else. The term itself is just a derivation of the phrase "pick back", which meant to throw something on your back for the purpose of carrying it.
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Just like ships, aircraft have position lights to indicate left (red) or right (green). Most things aeronautical stem from shipboard tradition and this is the case here. It helps to distinguish which direction the craft is flying at night.\n\nIt's is true that the flag is painted as if it were in a wind from the viewer right. If the wind were from the viewers left, it would appear correctly. (Just like on a real flagpole.)
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I will not directly answer your question, however you can find the answer here.\n\nwww.usflag.org/flagetiquette.html
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But one point I would like to mention, here in Texas we have a section in our constitution concerning the Texas flag, which is to be flown at the same height as the USA flag.\nUsed to annoy my wife to no end until I showed her the Texas consitution.\nI got this from: www.thesakeofargument.com/archives/000717.html \nwhere you find everything about the flag etiquette.
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its a national event so the national flag is used for the start...\nbe a patriotic person
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Wow, I would have never guessed that people really study this!  Here's an excerpt from the website listed below:\n\n"Vexillology is the scientific study of flags and related emblems. It is concerned with research into flags of all kinds, both modern and historical, the creation of a body of practice for flag design and usage, and of a body of theory of flag development. Vexillology seeks to understand and explain the important part played by flags in the modern world.\n\nVexillology as a word is derived from the Latin vexillum, a term used by the Romans to refer to a kind of standard with a fabric hung from a horizontal crossbar on a pole. It is the nearest equivalent in the classical languages to what we call a flag today."
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Why not? Its just a flag. Piracy (On the seas, at least) is very rare, and I dobt common pirates use the flags.
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Flagging an orange bandana in gay culture is saying, "Any time. Any place. Anything goes."\n\nKeep in mind that this nearly-extinct, archaic way of communication is often confusing for newcomers. There are subtle distinctions, especially depending on what pocket your flagging. If it's the left pocket, you are looking for "X" situation - but you play a dominant role. Right pocket is for submissive role.\n\nRed hankies are for fisting. So, left pocket means you want to "give" and right pocket means you want to "take". Make sense?\n\nHave fun -whenever, wherever, or whatever it may be!  <wink>
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**flag**\n\n\nDo you have a flag?
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From: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cho3.htm\n\nQ] From Dr Anthony Rea: “I live in Australia and a few years ago some friends visiting from Canada were perplexed by my father’s use of the term chock-a-block, meaning full. For example, “the street was chock-a-block with cars”. Are you able to shed any light on the origin of this phrase?”\n\n[A] Chock-a-block is actually a fairly widely known North American term, I’m told. I know it well and would use it, though there’s a faint air of being slightly out of date about it. In Britain, it’s now common to hear the abbreviated forms chocka (or chocker), which are both from World War Two services’ slang, and in Australia the closely related chockers.\n\nChock here is the same word as in chock-full, jam-packed full or filled to overflowing. One meaning of chock in the nineteenth century was of two things pressed so tightly against each other that they can’t move. This led to the nautical term that’s the direct origin of the phrase. Block refers to the pulley blocks of the tackle used for various hauling jobs on board ship. These worked in pairs, with the ropes threaded between them. When the men hauling tackle ropes had hoisted the load as far as it would go, the two pulley blocks touched and could move no further. They were then said to be chock-a-block, or crammed together.\n\nThe origin of chock is complicated and not altogether understood. It’s clear that there has been some cross-fertilisation between it and chock in the sense of a lump of wood used as a wedge to stop something moving. That’s closely enough related to our sense to make it seem as though it might be the same word. But the experts think that chock in chock-a-block actually came from chock-full.\n\nThat has been around at least since 1400. It comes from a different source, the verb chokken, as in the Middle English phrase chokken togeder, crammed together. This in turn may be from an Old French verb choquier, to collide or thrust. One of the problems of working out the origin has been that chock-full has appeared in several different spellings—including chuck-full and choke-full—reflecting users’ uncertainty about where it comes from.
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What the word flag means, and what the acronym FLAG stand for can be found via the two sources listed below.\n\nHope it helps.
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i think you meant means of transportation...horse and buggy. because they do not believe in things that are manufactured on an assembly line, like cars.
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"The colors of the pales (the vertical stripes) are those used in the flag of the United States of America; White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & valour, and Blue, the color of the Chief (the broad band above the stripes) signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice." \n\nGreat site check it out!
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means: let her fly.\nas in, let her fly, and if she comes back to you she's yours.
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The rules of the flag are (in no particular order, sorry if I missed one or mores): \n1. Never let it touch the ground\n2. Never fly it in the rain\n3. Only fly it at night if a spotlight is on it\n4. No other flag should be flown higher\n5. There is a particular way to fold it (triangle)\n6. If it touches the ground, it must be burned. The proper way to do this is to cut the stripes in strips and I believe leave the blue whole, but I can't remember for sure. Burning the flag is the only PROPER way to dispose of it. I'm amazed how few people know the rules for our Nations symbol.
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It's meant to insult what the flag stands for. It is an act of defiance. It too is symbolic but it changes no policy.