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Label   /lˈeɪbəl/   Listen
Label

noun
1.
A brief description given for purposes of identification.
2.
Trade name of a company that produces musical recordings.  Synonym: recording label.
3.
A radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction.
4.
An identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object.
verb
(past & past part. labeled or labelled; pres. part. labeling or labelling)
1.
Assign a label to; designate with a label.
2.
Attach a tag or label to.  Synonyms: mark, tag.
3.
Pronounce judgment on.  Synonyms: judge, pronounce.
4.
Distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom.
5.
Distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions.



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"Label" Quotes from Famous Books



... little hole, which has the one merit of being opposite Miss Schuyler's lodgings. My sketch-book has deteriorated in artistic value during the last two weeks. Many of its pages, while interesting to me as reminiscences, will hardly do for family or studio exhibition. If I should label them, the result ...
— A Cathedral Courtship • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... catering. We can't afford the kind of housekeeping which requires servants, so it is a case of plain living and high thinking. Uncle Rod hates to eat anything that has been killed, and makes all sorts of excuses not to. He won't call himself a vegetarian, for he thinks that people who label themselves are apt to be cranks. So he does our bit of marketing and comes home triumphant with his basket innocent of birds or beasts, and we live on ambrosia and nectar or the modern equivalent. We are quite classic with our feasts by the old fish-pond ...
— Mistress Anne • Temple Bailey
... days, she had felt she owed a certain person left Maisie a moment so ill-prepared for recognising this lurid label that she hesitated long ...
— What Maisie Knew • Henry James
... her hands to her ears—"No more Ittlethwaites, please, for the present! Sufficient for the day is the Magnum Chartus thereof! Who comes here?" and she read from another card,—"'Mrs. Mordaunt Appleby.' Also a smaller label which says, 'Mr. Mordaunt Appleby'! More county family ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... direction of the bottles—of course 'tis opera-glasses I mean, yer honour,—in order to ascertain what particular wanity was La Traviata's favourite; but the bottles were so placed that only one unimportant word on the label was visible. Was it Pommery '80 tres sec?—Or what was it? Impossible to see: it was not mentioned in the dialogue, so "Mumm" might have been the word. But at all events, if the wine is one which requires advertisement, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 2, 1891 • Various


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