| 释义 |
label /lāˈbl/ noun- A small slip of paper or other material placed on or near anything to denote its nature, contents, composition, ownership, destination, etc
- A characterizing or classificatory designation (figurative)
- A manufacturer's or retailer's tradename attached to goods to identify them
- A strip of material with this or other information on it
- The piece of paper on a record, cassette, compact disc, etc giving the maker's production company's tradename and identifying the recorded material
- The tradename itself (informal)
- 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)
- 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
- A paper appended to a will, such as a codicil (law)
- A fillet with pendants (an eldest son's cadency mark; heraldry)
- A dripstone (architecture)
- An attached band or strip (archaic)
transitive verb (lāˈbelling; lāˈbelled)- To fix a label to
- To describe by or on a label
- To replace an atom in (a molecule or compound) by a radioactive isotope, for the purpose of identification (physics)
ORIGIN: OFr label, perh from OHGer lappa (Ger Lappen) flap lāˈbeller noun labelled atom noun A tagged atom laˈbelmate noun A musician whose recordings are issued by the same record company as another |