label
a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
a short word or phrase descriptive of a person, group, intellectual movement, etc.
a word or phrase indicating that what follows belongs in a particular category or classification: The following definition has the label “Architecture.”
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, especially of a manufacturer of phonograph records, tape cassettes, etc.: She records under a new label.
the manufacturer using such a label: a major label that has produced some of the best recordings of the year.
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.
to affix a label to; mark with a label.
to designate or describe by or on a label: The bottle was labeled poison.
to put in a certain class; classify.
Also radiolabel. Chemistry. to incorporate a radioactive or heavy isotope into (a molecule) in order to make traceable.
Origin of label
1Other words from label
- 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
Words Nearby label
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How to use label in a sentence
It may actually have a label saying “Audio & Subtitles,” depending on your device.
Learn how to add closed captions to video calls, Netflix, and more | David Nield | August 28, 2020 | Popular-ScienceA real scientific test would be to clip out the horoscopes and cut off the labels so you don’t know which signs are connected to which predictions.
How Pseudoscientists Get Away With It - Facts So Romantic | Stuart Firestein | August 28, 2020 | NautilusIt was the Hertz situation that kicked off a project to introduce “safety labels” within the company.
Public, a stock trading app, gets a seven-figure check from Scott Galloway | Lucinda Shen | August 25, 2020 | FortuneThat’s a label that has traditionally been claimed by Republican politicians.
Brynne Kennedy could be the first female tech founder to serve in Congress | ehinchliffe | August 24, 2020 | FortuneWhile 2-D X-rays of each specimen existed, little information existed beyond generic animal labels.
X-rays reveal what ancient animal mummies keep under wraps | Helen Thompson | August 20, 2020 | Science News
Joe and the record label were behind him all the way: look at the full-page ad in Billboard the previous week.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ | Peter Guralnick | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the media, meanwhile, has referred to her as every label under the sun, from “a man” to “transsexual.”
Exclusive: Michael Phelps’s Intersex Self-Proclaimed Girlfriend, Taylor Lianne Chandler, Tells All | Aurora Snow | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo what I always tell the kids is to be careful about signing to a label and always protect your copyright.
Wyclef Jean Talks Lauryn Hill, the Yele Haiti Controversy, and Chris Christie | Marlow Stern | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe genuine source of consternation, however, was her label Interscope.
Azealia Banks Opens Up About Her Journey from Stripping to Rap Stardom | Marlow Stern | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe hashtag has been used to label general rants about people getting naked for attention.
#FixTheInternet: The Hashtag That Beat Back Kim Kardashian’s Butt | Emily Shire | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEach picture bore a label, giving a true description of the once-honoured gem.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsNew York is like one of those nightmares a certain class of writers project and label 'Earth in the Year 2000.'
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonI did not label him efficiency-expert, for printers have always been notoriously allergic to that title.
Nine Men in Time | Noel Miller LoomisOut of the devil's mouth issues a label with the words, "Make room for Sir Robert."
A druggist, therefore, who affixes a wrong label to a bottle of medicine and thereby injures a person who uses it is responsible.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman | Albert Sidney Bolles
British Dictionary definitions for label
/ (ˈleɪbəl) /
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 (def. 2)
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
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
Origin of label
1Derived forms of label
- labeller, noun
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Scientific definitions for label
[ lā′bəl ]
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