label
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
computing
engineering
entertainment
government
graphical-user-interface
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
microbiology
monarchy
music
natural-sciences
nobility
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: labels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: labels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: labeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: labelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: labeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: labeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: labelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: labelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
pos: noun
examples: Ever since he started going to the rock club, he's been given the label "waster".
gloss: A company that sells records.
pos: noun
examples: The label signed the band after hearing a demo tape.
gloss: A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
pos: noun
examples: Storage devices can be given by label or ID.
gloss: A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
pos: noun
gloss: A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
pos: noun
gloss: A tassel.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the arms or escutcheon of France , hanging by a label on an oak
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd, / Shall be the label to another deed.
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.
Where Balak met Balaam, standing as it were on his tiptoes on the very last labell of his land, to reach forth […]
The flesh and skin hung down in long Collops and Labels.
gloss: A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
pos: noun
gloss: A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
pos: noun
examples: Sculptured ends of labels are called label-stops.
gloss: In mediaeval and later art, a representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
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.
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 ...
gloss: A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.
pos: noun
gloss: To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The shop assistant labeled all the products in the shop.
gloss: To give (a label) to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
ditransitive
examples: 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.
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.
And the liberal blogosphere has long labeled Clinton part of the neoconservative wing, a conservative intellectual movement that supports an interventionist foreign policy.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: 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
pos: verb
examples: 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....
Synonyms: categorise
compartmentalise
peg
pigeonhole
Derived words: 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
netlabel
off label
off-label
own label
photolabel
private label
radiolabel
record label
spin label
sublabel
vanity label
white-label
white label
relabel
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: etiquetar
lang: Dutch
word: bestempelen
lang: Dutch
word: categoriseren
lang: Esperanto
word: etikedi
lang: Finnish
word: leimata
lang: French
word: étiqueter
lang: French
word: catégoriser
lang: French
word: classer
lang: German
word: etikettieren
lang: Greek
word: τιτλοφορώ
roman: titloforó
lang: Greek
word: κατατάσσω σε
roman: katatásso se
lang: Greek
word: βαφτίζω
roman: vaftízo
lang: Italian
word: classificare
lang: Italian
word: bollare
lang: Italian
word: definire
lang: Malay
word: label
lang: Norwegian
word: merke
lang: Persian
word: برچسب زدن
roman: barčasb zadan
lang: Polish
word: etykietować
lang: Portuguese
word: classificar
lang: Romanian
word: eticheta
lang: Romanian
word: categorisi
lang: Russian
word: ве́шать ярлыки́
roman: véšatʹ jarlykí
lang: Russian
word: клейми́ть
roman: klejmítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: tildar de
lang: Spanish
word: etiquetar de / como
lang: Swedish
word: beteckna
lang: Swedish
word: etikettera