单词 | labelling |
释义 | labellinglabelingn.ΚΠ 1596 J. Blagrave Astrolabium Vranicum xiii. sig. E2 Hold the Zenitfer fast, and slide downe the Cursor to the centre, applying there his Fiduciall line labell-wise to the Sunne, which shall shew you in the houre circle the houre desired, and this I call labelling of the Sunne to the houre circle. 2. The action of attaching a label or labels to something; the label or labels attached to something, esp. a commercial product, collectively; (hence) the information printed on the packaging of a commercial product. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] labelling1732 ticketing1844 stickering1966 1732 Rep. Comm. Cottonian Libr. (House of Commons) App. D. xi. 164 Great Numbers of old Ministerial and Receivers Accompts of the said Revenue,..most of which want new labelling. 1798 in Statutes passed in Parl. held in Ireland (1799) XI. xxix. 425 Directions as to stamping, marking, labelling, and all matters and things, as if such paper had been finished and sized at the mill where made. 1841 Capt. Tremenherre Let. 27 Jan. in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1840 9 ii. 973 I shall be unable to complete the labelling of the specimens before my departure for Moulmein. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Oct. 4/1 The ‘syruping’ and ‘labelling’ is..done by boys. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 222/2 The obligatory labelling of margarine packages was more precisely regulated. 1967 N.Y. Times 14 Sept. 65/3 The leotards match the packaging and labeling of Meister Brau Lite, a no-carbohydrate beer to be introduced this week. 1981 Industry Week 26 Jan. 101 The computer system, now being used to track 200,000 pending patent applications, uses bar-code labeling of files. 2010 Grocer Feb. 32/4 Shoppers want to see better country-of-origin labelling on meat more than any other food. 3. The action of describing or categorizing a person or thing by means of a particular word or phrase (sometimes with the implication that such categorization is inaccurate, simplistic, or restrictive); an instance of this. ΚΠ 1831 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 8 Oct. As the term, National Republican, is sufficiently indicative of the existence of certain principles.., the cabalistic use of a name prefixed without a correspondent exclusiveness of signification in its comprehension, should be left to those men and that party, who need labelling to be recognized. 1891 Liberty 11 July 3/1 The erroneous labelling of debt as money. 1895 Athenæum 17 Aug. 219/3 Several of the præter-natural phenomena..are not all so characteristically Welsh that they can be easily recognized as such without the adventitious aid of a setting of Welsh scenery or a labelling of Welsh names. 1956 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 42 733 The author comments that he was as much an Arminian as his opponents were Calvinists. Such loose labeling may well lead to a dialogue de sourds. 2000 A. Moreton-Robinson Talkin' up to White Woman (2006) i. 15 Such labelling tells us little about the way in which Indigenous women's subjectivity is shaped and reshaped by the subjects themselves. 2009 Church Times 11 Dec. 4/5 A UK charity..is supporting a new network that aims to halt the labelling of vulnerable people as ‘witches’ or ‘witch-children’. 4. Biology and Chemistry. The action or process of making a substance, molecule, cell, etc., experimentally identifiable by incorporating or attaching a radioactive isotope, fluorescent dye, enzyme, or other molecule to it; an instance of this. Cf. label v. 5.affinity labelling, spin-labelling, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1939 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 1213 The main use of isotopes in biology is for labelling purposes. 1947 Nucleonics Dec. 51/1 The isotope method of labeling, which derives its power as a tool not only from its ‘naturalness’ but also from its ability to label the individual atoms in a molecule. 1996 Cell & Tissue Res. 285 491/1 Cellular proliferation..was assessed by 3H-thymidine labelling 1 h before death, followed by radioautographic analysis. 2014 Plant Cell 26 4665/1 Individual time-course labelings were performed in separate glass tubes. 2015 Cell Stress & Chaperones 20 607/1 Labeling of the ‘heavy’ culture was tested beforehand and was >98%. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1596 |
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