label /lāˈbl/

1. A small slip of paper or other material placed on or near anything to denote its nature, contents, composition, ownership, destination, etc
2. A characterizing or classificatory designation (figurative)
3. A manufacturer's or retailer's tradename attached to goods to identify them
4. A strip of material with this or other information on it
5. The piece of paper on a record, cassette, compact disc, etc giving the maker's production company's tradename and identifying the recorded material
6. The tradename itself (informal)
7. A character or set of characters indicating the start of an instruction in a program and used elsewhere in the program to refer to that instruction (computing)
8. An element, often a radioactive atom, that is used for the identification and monitoring of a chemical reaction, the presence of molecules in living organisms, etc
9. A paper appended to a will, such as a codicil (law)
10. A fillet with pendants (an eldest son's cadency mark; heraldry)
11. A dripstone (architecture)
12. An attached band or strip (archaic)

1. To fix a label to
2. To describe by or on a label
3. To replace an atom in (a molecule or compound) by a radioactive isotope, for the purpose of identification (physics)

lāˈbeller noun

labelled atom noun

A tagged atom

laˈbelmate noun

A musician whose recordings are issued by the same record company as another

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