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 “Archit.”
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.
verb (used with object),la·beled,la·bel·ing or (especially British) la·belled,la·bel·ling.
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
1275–1325; Middle English <Middle French: ribbon, perhaps <Germanic. See lap1
OTHER WORDS FROM label
la·bel·er,nounnon·la·bel·ing,adjective,nounnon·la·bel·ling,adjective,nounpre·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,adjectiveun·la·belled,adjective
Words nearby label
Laban dance notation system, labarum, labdanum, Labe, labefaction, label, labeled bracketing, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, la belle indifference, labellist, labellum
It may actually have a label saying “Audio & Subtitles,” depending on your device.
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A 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.
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It was the Hertz situation that kicked off a project to introduce “safety labels” within the company.
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That’s a label that has traditionally been claimed by Republican politicians.
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While 2-D X-rays of each specimen existed, little information existed beyond generic animal labels.
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And the media, meanwhile, has referred to her as every label under the sun, from “a man” to “transsexual.”
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So what I always tell the kids is to be careful about signing to a label and always protect your copyright.
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The genuine source of consternation, however, was her label Interscope.
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The hashtag has been used to label general rants about people getting naked for attention.
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One label I saw in a New York magazine headline was, “A Pop Star Even a Mother Could Love.”
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A label and place for everything, and everything in its place with its label.
Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895|Various
He had no learning; he was not misled by the label on the bottle—for that is what learning largely meant in his time.
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In preparing stock solutions, label the bottles and write the formula with direction for use on the label.
Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895|Various
He frowned over the delicate task of starting the film, inquired offhandedly, You got the photostat of the label inscription?
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The magazine published a photograph of the label, and it told its own convincing story.
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British Dictionary definitions for label
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, etcthe 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)
heraldrya charge consisting of a horizontal line across the chief of a shield with three or more pendants: the charge of an eldest son
computinga group of characters, such as a number or a word, appended to a particular statement in a program to allow its unique identification
chema radioactive element used in a compound to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction