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Etymology

From Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French: lambeau), from Old Frankish *labba (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lapp?, *lappô (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Cognate with Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”), Old English læppa (“skirt, flap of a garment”). More at lap.

Noun

label (plural labels)

1. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
2. A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
3. (music) A company that sells records.
4. (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
5. (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
6. (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
7. (obsolete) A tassel.
8. A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
9. A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
10. (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
11. In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
12. (graphical user interface) A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.

Verb

label (third-person singular simple present labels, present participle (UK) labelling or (US) labeling, simple past and past participle (UK) labelled or (US) labeled)

1. (transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
2. (ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
3. (biochemistry) To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of this isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway or cell.
4. (biochemistry) To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance in order to track the presence of the label-substance combination either in situ or in vitro

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