bagging

Putting in sacks

Bagging is the act of putting things into bags: bagging groceries, bagging leaves.

In hunting, to bag game is to kill it, so bagging extends to capturing or acquiring anything: He's focused on bagging the promotion.

In Australian and New Zealand slang, bagging someone means criticizing or mocking them.

In machine learning, bagging is a technique that combines predictions from multiple models to improve accuracy.

containers

tote

Large open bag

sack · burlap · canvas · gunny · beanbag · ziplock

shopping

checkout

Payment completion process

aisle · retail · shelf · cart · trolley · basket · receipt · scanner · barcode · produce

machine-learning

ensemble

Unified group or outfit

averaging · classifier · sampling · variance · overfitting · decision tree · prediction · model · algorithm

hunting

game

Organized play or sport

kill · deer · duck · pheasant · limit · season · tag · harvest · prey · prize

sagging

drooping

Hanging or bending downward

bulging · puffing · bunching · wrinkling · hanging · slumping · ill-fitting · oversized · slack · saggy

collecting

gathering

Collection of people meeting

scooping up · acquiring · securing · nabbing · scoring · winning · earning · claiming · notching · tallying

slang-criticize

mocking

Scornfully imitating or ridiculing

slagging · ragging · ribbing · teasing · insulting · deriding · ridiculing · belittling · putting down · running down

Categories
Opposites
containment/capture

baggingreleasing

Allowing to escape

freeing · letting go · liberating · unleashing · setting free

acquisition/success

baggingreleasing

Allowing to escape

freeing · missing · losing · letting go · liberating

retail packaging

baggingunbagging

Removing from a sack

unpacking · emptying · removing · extracting · unloading

Phrases
Family

bag, bags, handbag, bagged, airbag, handbags, duffel bag, sandbag, bean bag

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G