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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



... only to the works of the great Creator, to whose Omniscient eye, all causes and effects with all their relations, were present, when he spake, and from nothing formed the universe and all its glorious wonders. For man to stamp upon any of his own works, the label of perfection, is to show both ...
— Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee - A Bee Keeper's Manual • L. L. Langstroth
... it no label, but it has subsequently become known as the Golden Rule. There is no higher rule and no greater developer of the highest there is in the individual human life, and no greater adjuster and beautifier of the problems of our common ...
— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine
... every gate a metal label was affixed: "No hawkers or street musicians." In the most sedate of the red-brick villas with the neatest front garden, lived the Misses Dobson. If any one ever ventured to speak of them in their hearing ...
— Enter Bridget • Thomas Cobb
... distinguished one from another chiefly by the names of their residences or professions, as Wilfrid of Hubbledown, and young Wilfrid the Gunner, but this particular scion was known by the ignominious and expressive label of Wilfrid the Snatcher. From his late schooldays onward he had been possessed by an acute and obstinate form of kleptomania; he had the acquisitive instinct of the collector without any of the collector's discrimination. Anything that was smaller and more ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki
... of Tuscan olive oil is imported in London in casks, bottled there, and bears the name of the importers alone on the label. There is no difficulty in procuring in England the best Tuscan oil, which nothing produced elsewhere can surpass; but consumers who wish to get, and are willing to pay for, the best article must look to the name and reputation ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 • Various


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