Label

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An item used to identify something or someone, as a small piece of paper or cloth attached to an article to designate its origin, owner, contents, use, or destination.
  • n. A descriptive term; an epithet.
  • n. A distinctive name or trademark identifying a product or manufacturer, especially a recording company.
  • n. Architecture A molding over a door or window; a dripstone.
  • n. Heraldry A figure in a field consisting of a narrow horizontal bar with several pendants.
  • n. Chemistry See tracer.
  • v. To attach a label to.
  • v. To identify or designate with a label; describe or classify: labeled them Yuppies. See Synonyms at mark1.
  • v. Chemistry To add a tracer to (a compound).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
  • n. A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
  • n. A company that sells records.
  • n. A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
  • n. A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
  • v. To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
  • v. To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A tassel.
  • n. A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, and indicating, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc..
  • n. A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.
  • n. A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.
  • n. A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.
  • n. A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.
  • n. The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediæval architecture. It always has a square form, as in the illustration.
  • n. In mediæval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
  • v. To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc..
  • v. To affix in or on a label.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small loosely hanging flap; specifically, a pendant like a broad ribbon hanging from a head-dress; a lappet.
  • n. In heraldry:
  • n. One of the ribbons that hang down from a miter or the electoral crown. See infula, 3 .
  • n. A fillet resembling a barrulet with three or more pendent drops or points, which were originally straight with parallel sides, but are now usually shaped like a dovetail.
  • n. A slip of paper or any other material, bearing a name, title, address, or the like, affixed to something to indicate its nature, contents, ownership, destination, or other particulars.
  • n. A narrow slip of parchment or paper, or a ribbon of silk, affixed to a diploma, deed, or other formal writing, to hold the appended seal.
  • n. In law, a paper annexed to a will by way of addition, as a codicil.
  • n. A small reserved space in a work of art, or the like, forming a panel or cartouche, used for containing a name, monogram, or other mark for identification.
  • n. In medieval architecture, a projecting tablet or molding over a door or window. See dripstone, Also called label-molding.
  • n. A long, thin brass rule, with a small sight at one end and a centerhole at the other, commonly used with a tangent line on the edge of a circumferentor, to take altitudes, etc.
  • n. Border; verge; marge.
  • To affix a label to; mark with a label: as, to label a package to be despatched by express.
  • To designate or describe by or on a label; characterize by inscription: as, the bottle was labeled poison.
  • To set forth or describe in a label (in the legal sense).
  • In architecture, to furnish with labels or hood-moldings. See label, n., 7.
  • n. In botany, same as labellum, 1.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. assign a label to; designate with a label
  • v. pronounce judgment on
  • n. an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object
  • n. trade name of a company that produces musical recordings
  • v. distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom
  • v. attach a tag or label to
  • n. a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
  • v. distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions
  • n. a brief description given for purposes of identification
  • Verb Form
    labeled    labeling    labelled    labelling    labels   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    trade name    marque    brand name    brand    severalise    separate    secern    secernate    severalize    differentiate   
    Variant
    labelled    labelling   
    Form
    labeled    labelled    labeling    labelling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tassel    drip    sign    ticket    tag    pigeonhole    category    price    categorise    compartmentalise   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abel    Cable    Gable    Mabel    Mable    Sable    able    cable    chaebol    disable   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    icon    code    format    button    card    text    tag    chart    item    print