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label
[ ley-buhl ]
noun
- a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.:
The medicine bottle should have a label on it with the dosing instructions.
- a short word or phrase descriptive of a person, group, intellectual movement, etc.:
The label “progressive” can be used to describe many different political movements.
- a word or phrase indicating that what follows belongs in a particular category or classification:
The label “Formal” marks words used in academic or business contexts.
- Architecture. a molding or dripstone over a door or window, especially one that extends horizontally across the top of the opening and vertically downward for a certain distance at the sides.
- a brand or trademark under which something, such as clothing or music, is manufactured and sold:
She records under her own label.
Chanel has launched a new label for ready-to-wear couture.
- the manufacturer using such a label:
All the big-name labels will have a runway show during Fashion Week.
Major labels are feeling the economic crunch and are no longer signing small acts or individual musicians.
- Heraldry. a narrow horizontal strip with a number of downward extensions of rectangular or dovetail form, usually placed in chief as the cadency mark of an eldest son.
- Obsolete. a strip or narrow piece of anything.
verb (used with object)
- to affix a label to; mark with a label:
The drawers have all been labeled with their contents.
- to designate or describe by or on a label:
The bottle was labeled poison.
- to put in a certain class; classify:
It's easy to label someone as difficult and stop trying, but curiosity and compassion can often get you further.
label
/ ˈleɪbəl /
noun
- a piece of paper, card, or other material attached to an object to identify it or give instructions or details concerning its ownership, use, nature, destination, etc; tag
- a brief descriptive phrase or term given to a person, group, school of thought, etc
the label "Romantic" is applied to many different kinds of poetry
- a word or phrase heading a piece of text to indicate or summarize its contents
- a trademark or company or brand name on certain goods, esp, formerly, on gramophone records
- another name for dripstone
- heraldry a charge consisting of a horizontal line across the chief of a shield with three or more pendants: the charge of an eldest son
- computing a group of characters, such as a number or a word, appended to a particular statement in a program to allow its unique identification
- chem a radioactive element used in a compound to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
verb
- to fasten a label to
- to mark with a label
- to describe or classify in a word or phrase
to label someone a liar
- to make (one or more atoms in a compound) radioactive, for use in determining the mechanism of a reaction
label
/ lā′bəl /
- See tracer
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Derived Forms
- ˈlabeller, noun
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Other Words From
- la·bel·er noun
- non·la·bel·ing adjective noun
- non·la·bel·ling adjective noun
- pre·la·bel noun verb (used with object) prelabeled prelabeling or (especially British) prelabelled prelabelling
- re·la·bel verb (used with object) relabeled relabeling or (especially British) relabelled relabelling
- un·la·beled adjective
- un·la·belled adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
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