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label
[ ley-buhl ]
noun
- a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.:
The medicine bottle should have a label on it with the dosing instructions.
- a short word or phrase descriptive of a person, group, intellectual movement, etc.:
The label “progressive” can be used to describe many different political movements.
- a word or phrase indicating that what follows belongs in a particular category or classification:
The label “Formal” marks words used in academic or business contexts.
- 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 under which something, such as clothing or music, is manufactured and sold:
She records under her own label.
Chanel has launched a new label for ready-to-wear couture.
- the manufacturer using such a label:
All the big-name labels will have a runway show during Fashion Week.
Major labels are feeling the economic crunch and are no longer signing small acts or individual musicians.
- 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)
- to affix a label to; mark with a label:
The drawers have all been labeled with their contents.
- to designate or describe by or on a label:
The bottle was labeled poison.
- to put in a certain class; classify:
It's easy to label someone as difficult and stop trying, but curiosity and compassion can often get you further.
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, etc
the 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
- heraldry a charge consisting of a horizontal line across the chief of a shield with three or more pendants: the charge of an eldest son
- computing a group of characters, such as a number or a word, appended to a particular statement in a program to allow its unique identification
- chem a radioactive element used in a compound to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
verb
- to fasten a label to
- to mark with a label
- to describe or classify in a word or phrase
to label someone a liar
- to make (one or more atoms in a compound) radioactive, for use in determining the mechanism of a reaction
label
/ lā′bəl /
- See tracer
Derived Forms
- ˈlabeller, noun
Other Words From
- la·bel·er noun
- non·la·bel·ing adjective noun
- non·la·bel·ling adjective noun
- pre·la·bel noun verb (used with object) prelabeled prelabeling or (especially British) prelabelled prelabelling
- re·la·bel verb (used with object) relabeled relabeling or (especially British) relabelled relabelling
- un·la·beled adjective
- un·la·belled adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of label1
Example Sentences
It may actually have a label saying “Audio & Subtitles,” depending on your device.
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.
It was the Hertz situation that kicked off a project to introduce “safety labels” within the company.
That’s a label that has traditionally been claimed by Republican politicians.
While 2-D X-rays of each specimen existed, little information existed beyond generic animal labels.
Joe and the record label were behind him all the way: look at the full-page ad in Billboard the previous week.
And the media, meanwhile, has referred to her as every label under the sun, from “a man” to “transsexual.”
So what I always tell the kids is to be careful about signing to a label and always protect your copyright.
The genuine source of consternation, however, was her label Interscope.
The hashtag has been used to label general rants about people getting naked for attention.
Each picture bore a label, giving a true description of the once-honoured gem.
New York is like one of those nightmares a certain class of writers project and label 'Earth in the Year 2000.'
I did not label him efficiency-expert, for printers have always been notoriously allergic to that title.
Out of the devil's mouth issues a label with the words, "Make room for Sir Robert."
A druggist, therefore, who affixes a wrong label to a bottle of medicine and thereby injures a person who uses it is responsible.
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