Beg vs. Bag — What's the Difference?

To ask for something humbly

A container for carrying things

To evade or avoid

To shape something like a bag

To ask (someone) for something in an urgent or humble manner

To claim something for oneself

To ask for (something) in an urgent or humble manner

A bag (also known regionally as a sack) is a common tool in the form of a non-rigid container. The use of bags predates recorded history, with the earliest bags being no more than lengths of animal skin, cotton, or woven plant fibers, folded up at the edges and secured in that shape with strings of the same material.Despite their simplicity, bags have been fundamental for the development of human civilization, as they allow people to easily collect loose materials such as berries or food grains, and to transport more items than could readily be carried in the hands.

To ask for (food or money, for instance) as a beggar.

A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.

To ask (permission) to do something

A handbag; a purse.

To evade; dodge

A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.

To take for granted without proof

A pouchlike or sagging organ or part of the body, such as a cow's udder.

To ask for something, especially money or food from strangers, in an urgent or humble manner.

An object that resembles a pouch.

To live as a beggar.

(Nautical) The sagging or bulging part of a sail.

To make an urgent or humble plea

The amount that a bag can hold.

(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

An amount of game taken or legally permitted to be taken.

(transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.

(Baseball) A base.

(transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.

(Slang) An area of interest or skill

(transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.

(Slang) A woman considered ugly or unkempt.

In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

To put into a bag

To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

To cause to bulge like a pouch.

The act of begging; an imploring request.

To capture or kill as game

A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.

To gain; acquire

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

To capture or arrest

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

To accomplish or achieve

To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

To fail to attend purposely; skip

To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

To stop doing or considering; abandon

To take for granted; to assume without proof.

To terminate the employment of.

To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for.

To pack items in a bag.

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

To hang loosely

Call upon in supplication; entreat;

To swell out; bulge.

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently;

A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

Ask to obtain free;

A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.

To make a desperate plea

(colloquial) One's preference.

To ask earnestly or urgently

(derogatory) An ugly woman.

To plead for charity

A fellow gay man.

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

(baseball) First, second, or third base.

(preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.

A scrotum.

(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

(slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

£1000, a grand.

(informal) A large number or amount.

(transitive) To put into a bag.

(transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

(slang) To steal.

To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.

(slang) To arrest.

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

To fit with a bag to collect urine.

To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag

To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

To hang like an empty bag.

To drop away from the correct course.

To become pregnant.

To forget, ignore, or get rid of.

To show particular puffy emotion

To swell with arrogance.

To laugh uncontrollably.

To criticise sarcastically.

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.

The quantity of game bagged.

A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

To swell with arrogance.

To become pregnant.

A flexible container with a single opening;

The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person);

Place that runner must touch before scoring;

A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women);

The quantity that a bag will hold;

A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;

An ugly or ill-tempered woman;

Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)

An activity that you like or at which you are superior;

Capture or kill, as in hunting;

Hang loosely, like an empty bag

Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

Take unlawfully

Put into a bag;

To capture or secure something

To succeed in obtaining

It's not commonly used as a noun in modern English.

Yes, "bag of tricks" is a common phrase.

The base form is "Beg."

Yes, the plural form is "Bags."

Yes, it can be used informally.

Yes, "Beggar" is a noun derived from the verb "Beg."

As a verb, "Bag" is usually transitive.

Yes, the past participle is "Begged."

Yes, e.g., "He bagged the role in the movie."

Yes, it can mean to plead or to avoid a topic.

Yes, it can refer to game captured in hunting.

Yes, like "handbag" or "sleeping bag."

Yes, "Beg" can be used to give a strong imperative, like "I beg you to stop!"

Yes, "Begging" is the present participle of "Beg."

Yes, "Bag" can be slang for to capture or claim something.