la·bel

[ley-buhl] noun, verb, la·beled, la·bel·ing or ( especially British ) la·belled, la·bel·ling.
noun
1.
a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
2.
a short word or phrase descriptive of a person, group, intellectual movement, etc.
3.
a word or phrase indicating that what follows belongs in a particular category or classification: The following definition has the label “Archit.”
4.
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.
5.
a brand or trademark, especially of a manufacturer of phonograph records, tape cassettes, etc.: She records under a new label.
6.
the manufacturer using such a label: a major label that has produced some of the best recordings of the year.
7.
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.
8.
Obsolete. a strip or narrow piece of anything.
verb (used with object)
9.
to affix a label to; mark with a label.
10.
to designate or describe by or on a label: The bottle was labeled poison.
11.
to put in a certain class; classify.
12.
Also, radiolabel. Chemistry. to incorporate a radioactive or heavy isotope into (a molecule) in order to make traceable.
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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Middle French: ribbon, perhaps < Germanic. See lap1

Related forms
la·bel·er, noun
non·la·bel·ing, adjective, noun
non·la·bel·ling, adjective, noun
pre·la·bel, noun, verb (used with object), pre·la·beled, pre·la·bel·ing or ( especially British ) pre·la·belled, pre·la·bel·ling.
re·la·bel, verb (used with object), re·la·beled, re·la·bel·ing or ( especially British ) re·la·belled, re·la·bel·ling.
un·la·beled, adjective
un·la·belled, adjective
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label (ˈleɪbəl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
1.  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
2.  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
3.  a word or phrase heading a piece of text to indicate or summarize its contents
4.  a trademark or company or brand name on certain goods, esp, formerly, on gramophone records
5.  another name for dripstone
6.  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
7.  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
8.  chem a radioactive element used in a compound to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
 
—vb , -bels, -belling, -belled, -bels, -beling, -beled
9.  to fasten a label to
10.  to mark with a label
11.  to describe or classify in a word or phrase: to label someone a liar
12.  to make (one or more atoms in a compound) radioactive, for use in determining the mechanism of a reaction
 
[C14: from Old French, from Germanic; compare Old High German lappa rag]
 
'labeller
 
—n

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label
early 14c., "narrow band or strip of cloth," from O.Fr. label, lambel "ribbon, fringe" (Fr. lambeau "strip, rag, shred, tatter"), possibly from Frankish *labba (cf. O.H.G. lappa "flap"), from P.Gmc. *lapp- (see lap (n.)). Sense of "strip attached to a document to hold a seal"
evolved in M.E. (late 14c.), and general meaning of "tag, sticker, slip of paper" is from 1670s. Meaning "circular piece of paper in the center of a gramophone record" (1907), containing information about the recorded music, led to meaning "a recording company" (1952). The verb meaning "to affix a label to" is from c.1600; figurative sense of "to categorize" is from 1853. Related: Labeled; labeling; labelled; labelling.
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label   (lā'bəl)  Pronunciation Key 
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label definition


1. An identifier used to mark a position in a program so that it can be the destination of a goto statement.
2. The identifier assigned to a datagram for label switching.
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Example sentences
One solution is to allow a designer his own label while still working for the
  established brand.
Apply aluminum sulfate, which is often packaged expressly for hydrangeas,
  following label directions.
The authors note that off-label drug use is common in cancer.
The cards, known in the industry as private label credit cards, tend to be held
  by riskier borrowers with fewer credit options.
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