label
A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
Noun
- A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
- We laughed at her because the label was still on her new sweater.
- The label says this silk scarf should not be washed in the washing machine.
- Although the label priced this poster at three pounds, I got it for two.
- A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
- Ever since he started going to the rock club, he's been given the label "waster".
Synonyms: category pigeonhole
- A company that sells records.
- The label signed the band after hearing a demo tape.
Synonyms: record label
- A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
- Storage devices can be given by label or ID.
- A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
- A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
Synonyms: lambel
- A tassel.
- the arms or escutcheon of France , hanging by a label on an oak - a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam]...
- A small strip, especially of paper or parchment (or of some material attached to parchment to carry the seal), but also of iron, brass, land, etc.
- Ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd, / Shall be the label to another deed. - c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...
- They […] 'sealed the grave, and rolled a great stone at the mouth of it' and as an ancient tradition says, bound it about with labels of iron. - 1649, Jer[emy] Taylor, chapter 39, in The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and...
- Where Balak met Balaam, standing as it were on his tiptoes on the very last labell of his land, to reach forth […] - 1650, Fuller, Pisgah, IV. i. 25:
- A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
- A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
- The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
- Sculptured ends of labels are called label-stops. - 2018, Marilyn Stokstad, Medieval Art, Routledge, →ISBN:
- In mediaeval and later art, a representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
- 2654. Two-handled globular vase; early Deruta lustred ware; centre surrounded by a band of scroll work; on each side the neck is an oval compartment with clasped hands, and a label scroll inscribed "Co pura fe.;"...
- Boime correctly suggests that medieval artists who employed labels or scrolls to gloss illustrations typically configured text and image in visually overlapping, but cognitively separate, spaces. - 2000, The Rutgers Art...
- The author notes that: Each of these held in one Hand a Scroll or Label, upon which were inscribed in Latin, but in the Old English Character, the Names of Kings and Saints of the Royal Line of MERCIA. Many of the...
Origin
From Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lappā (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappǭ, *lappô (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Cognate with Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”), Old English læppa (“skirt, flap of a garment”). More at lap.
Forms
Derived
biolabel book label charity label clean label clean-label colabel designer label disklabel ecolabel extra-label green label immunolabel interlabel labelable label cloud labeler labelese labeller labelless labelmate matchbox label microlabel mislabel multilabel
Verb
- To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
- The shop assistant labeled all the products in the shop.
- To give (a label) to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
- He's been unfairly labeled as a cheat, although he's only ever cheated once.
- A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece. - 1972...
- The other side can label and name-call all they want, but I trust the American people to recognize that it is not surrender to end the war in Iraq so that we can rebuild our military and go after Al Qaida's leaders. -...
- To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of this isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway or cell.
- To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance in order to track the presence of the label-substance combination either in situ or in vitro
- They may be used to label and image a protein within tissue, to isolate cells on the basis of marker expression, or to physically capture a protein from a complex biological mixture.... - Apr 15 2015, “Protein binder...