Label
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a piece of paper or other material that gives you information about the object it is attached to:
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A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
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To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
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trade name of a company that produces musical recordings
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a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
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assign a label to; designate with a label
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attach a tag or label to
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A company that sells records.
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To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
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a slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal
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a writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will
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a brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes
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the name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture. It always has a /quare form, as in the illustration
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in mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription
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to affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package
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lā′bel, n. a small slip of writing affixed to anything to denote its contents, ownership, c.: (law) a paper annexed to a will, as a codicil: (her.) a fillet with pendants: (archit.) the dripstone over a Gothic window or doorway arch.—v.t. to affix a label to: to describe by or on a label:—pr.p. lā′belling; pa.t. and pa.p. lā′belled. [O. Fr. label (Fr. lambeau); perh. from Old High Ger. lappa (Ger. lappen).]
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In heraldry, is the mark of cadency which distinguishes the eldest son in his father’s lifetime. It consists of a horizontal stripe or fillet, with three points depending from it. When the mark of cadency itself is designated a file, its points are called labels.
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