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la⋅bel

  [ley-buhl] noun, verb, -beled, -bel⋅ing or (especially British) -belled, -bel⋅ling.
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–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, esp. 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, esp. 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.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME < MF: ribbon, perh. < Gmc. See lap 1

Related forms:
la⋅bel⋅er, noun
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la·bel   (lā'bəl)   
n.  
  1. An item used to identify something or someone, as a small piece of paper or cloth attached to an article to designate its origin, owner, contents, use, or destination.
  2. A descriptive term; an epithet.
  3. A distinctive name or trademark identifying a product or manufacturer, especially a recording company.
  4. Architecture A molding over a door or window; a dripstone.
  5. Heraldry A figure in a field consisting of a narrow horizontal bar with several pendants.
  6. Chemistry See tracer.
tr.v.   la·beled or la·belled, la·bel·ing or la·bel·ling, la·bels
  1. To attach a label to.
  2. To identify or designate with a label; describe or classify: labeled them Yuppies. See Synonyms at mark1.
  3. Chemistry To add a tracer to (a compound).

[Middle English, ornamental strip of cloth, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin.]
la'bel·er, la'bel·ler n.
trac·er   (trā'sər)   
n.  
    1. One who is employed to locate missing goods or persons.
    2. An investigation or inquiry organized to trace missing goods or persons.
  2. Any of several instruments used in making tracings or in imprinting designs by tracing.
  3. A tracer bullet.
  4. An identifiable substance, such as a dye or a radioactive isotope, that is introduced into a biological or mechanical system and can be followed through the course of a process, providing information on the pattern of events in the process or on the redistribution of the parts or elements involved. Also called label.
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Label

La"bel\, n. [OF. label sort of ribbon or fringe, label in heraldry, F. lambeau shred, strip, rag; of uncertain origin; cf. L. labellum, dim. of labrum lip, edge, margin, G. lappen flap, patch, rag, tatter (cf. Lap of a dress), W. llab, llabed, label, flap, Gael. leab, leob, slice, shred, hanging lip.]

1. A tassel. [Obs.] --Huloet. Fuller.

2. A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.

3. A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.

4. A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.

5. (Her.) A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.

6. A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes. --Knight.

7. (Gothic Arch.) The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in medi[ae]val architecture. It always has a ?quare form, as in the illustration. --Arch. Pub. Soc.

8. In medi[ae]val art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription. --Fairholt.

Label

La"bel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Labeledor Labelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Labeling or Labelling.]

1. To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.

2. To affix in or on a label. [R.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : label
Spanish: etiqueta,
German: der Zettel,
Japanese: ラベル
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label 
c.1320, "narrow band or strip of cloth," from O.Fr. label, lambel "ribbon, fringe" (Fr. lambeau "strip, rag, shred, tatter"), possibly from Frank. *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. (c.1380), and general meaning of "tag, sticker, slip of paper" is from 1679. 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 1601; fig. sense of "to categorize" is from 1853.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: 1la·bel
Pronunciation: 'lA-b&l
Function: noun
: a usually radioactive isotope used in labeling

Main Entry: 2label
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: la·beled or la·belled; la·bel·ing or la·bel·ling /'lA-b(&-)li[ng]/
1 : to distinguish (an element or atom) by using an isotope distinctive in some manner (as in mass orradioactivity) for tracing through chemical reactions or biological processes
2 : to distinguish (as a compound or cell) by introducing a traceable constituent (as a dye or labeledatom)
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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label   (lā'bəl)  Pronunciation Key 
See tracer.
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label
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.
(2007-10-17)

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