label
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1. label - Noun
2. label - Verb
Meaning
A tassel.
A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.
A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.
A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.
A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.
A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.
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.
In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.
To affix in or on a label.
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They labeled him unfit to work here
the artists and repertoire department of a recording label is responsible for finding new talent
the label modern is applied to many different kinds of architecture
These students were labelled `learning disabled'
label these bottles
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