label
IPA: ɫˈeɪbʌɫ
noun
- A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
- A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
- (music) A company that sells records.
- (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
- (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
- (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
- (obsolete) A tassel.
- 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.
- A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
- (historical) A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
- (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
- In mediaeval and later art, a representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
- (graphical user interface) A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.
verb
- (transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
- (ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
- (biochemistry) 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.
- (biochemistry) 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
Examples of "label" in Sentences
- The other labels are equidistant.
- It deserved the label at the beginning.
- Perhaps a label is needed for the unwary.
- Labeling on the basis of behavior is risky.
- Is it the utilitarian text on the record label
- The album was released on the Corinthian label.
- It's on the one with the diamond in the middle of the label.
- But the question was supposedly about the label and the label alone.
- It was not a comment on the work, but on the labelling on the crate.
- Just to make the labels look less bothersome, i've made the labels smaller.