label
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.bəl/
ipa: [ˈleɪ.bɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈlɛj.b(ə)ɫ]
ipa: [ˈleː.b(ə)ɫ]
ipa: /ˈlæɪ.bəl/
ipa: [ˈlæɪ.bɫ̩]
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: labels
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: We laughed at her because the label was still on her new sweater.
text: The label says this silk scarf should not be washed in the washing machine.
text: Although the label priced this poster at three pounds, I got it for two.
synonyms: sign
tag
ticket
glosses: A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
examples: text: Ever since he started going to the rock club, he's been given the label "waster".
synonyms: category
pigeonhole
glosses: A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
examples: text: The label signed the band after hearing a demo tape.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: record label
glosses: A company that sells records.
examples: text: Storage devices can be given by label or ID.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: lambel
glosses: A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
examples: text: the arms or escutcheon of France , hanging by a label on an oak
ref: 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] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: A tassel.
examples: text: Ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd, / Shall be the label to another deed.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
text: 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.
ref: 1649, Jer[emy] Taylor, chapter 39, in The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life According to the Christian Institution. […], London: […] R. N. for Francis Ash, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=1 to 3):
text: Where Balak met Balaam, standing as it were on his tiptoes on the very last labell of his land, to reach forth […]
ref: 1650, Fuller, Pisgah, IV. i. 25:
text: The flesh and skin hung down in long Collops and Labels.
ref: 1679, Hist. of Jetzer, section 5:
glosses: 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.
glosses: A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
glosses: A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
examples: text: Sculptured ends of labels are called label-stops.
ref: 2018, Marilyn Stokstad, Medieval Art, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: architecture
glosses: The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
examples: text: 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.;" decoration, blue outline on white ground filled in with yellow lustre.
ref: 1859, Inventory of the Objects forming the Collections of the Museum of Ornamental Art at South Kensington, Victoria and Albert Museum, page 34:
text: 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.
ref: 2000, The Rutgers Art Review:
text: 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 Labels are broke off, others are so much defaced, that only a Syllable or two can be read.
ref: 2011, Catherine A M Clarke, Mapping the Medieval City: Space, Place and Identity in Chester c.1200-1600, University of Wales Press, →ISBN:
text: While word balloons had been present in Europe for some time, from the phylactery (inscribed scroll) seen in medieval art to the 'labels' or 'banners' of nineteenth-century English satirical illustrator George Cruikshank, among others ...
ref: 2012, David Glover, Scott McCracken, The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: In mediaeval and later art, a representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.
Derived terms: biolabel
book label
charity 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
netlabel
off label
off-label
own label
photolabel
private label
radiolabel
record label
spin label
sublabel
vanity label
white-label
white label