Meaning of label | Babel Free

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1. a language spoken in Papua New Guinea
2. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
3. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached
4. A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
5. a small written note fixed on or near anything to tell its contents, owner etc. luggage labels; The label on the blouse said `Do not iron'. etiket بِطاقَه، لاصِقَة المعلومات надпис etiqueta jmenovka; visačka der Zettel mærkeseddel; etiket ετικέταetiqueta silt برچسب lappu étiquetteתווית पर्चा, नाम-पत्र, नाम etiketa címke etiket (merki)miði etichetta, cartellino ラベル 상표, 라벨 etiketė, kortelė (su užrašu) etiķete; uzlīme label etiketmerkelapp, etikettetykietka, nalepka وړوكى ليكل شوى كاغذ په جامو ن...
   etc
6. A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group
7. A company that sells records.
8. verb to attach a label to. She labelled all the boxes of books carefully. merk, etiketteer يُلْصِق بِطاقَه أو لاصِقَه наименовам etiquetar opatřit etiketou etikettieren mærke κολλώ ετικέτα σε etiquetar märgistama برچسب زدن kiinnittää etiketti étiqueter לְתַייֵג लेबल लगाना staviti etiketu címkéz diberi etiket merkja etichettare ラベルをはる 상표를 붙이다 priklijuoti, pritvirtinti etiketę/kortelę uzlīmēt etiķeti melabel van een etiket voorzien merke, sette merkelapp på opatrzyć etykietką نښه، پيژند پاڼه، ل...
   verb
9. A company that sells records
10. An item used to identify something or someone, as a small piece of paper or cloth attached to an article to designate its origin, owner, contents, use, or destination.
11. A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
12. A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration
13. A descriptive term; an epithet.
14. A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
15. A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct
16. A distinctive name or trademark identifying a product or manufacturer, especially a recording company.
17. A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
18. Architecture A molding over a door or window; a dripstone.
    Architecture
19. A tassel.
    obsolete
20. Heraldry A figure in a field consisting of a narrow horizontal bar with several pendants.
    Heraldry
21. 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.
22. Chemistry See tracer.
    Chemistry
23. A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
24. To attach a label to: labeled the jars before storing them.
25. A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
    historical
26. To identify or designate with a descriptive term; describe or classify: "He missed two crucial penalty kicks ... and was labeled a loser by the previously loyal British press" (Phil Ball).
27. The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
28. In mediaeval and later art, a representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
29. A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.

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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.”

“Ever since he started going to the rock club, he's been given the label "waster".”

“The label signed the band after hearing a demo tape.”

“Storage devices can be given by label or ID.”

“the arms or escutcheon of France , hanging by a label on an oak”

“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.”

“Sculptured ends of labels are called label-stops.”

“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 ...”

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