1. a slip of paper, cloth, or other material, marked or inscribed, for attachment to something to indicate its manufacturer, nature, ownership, destination, etc.
2. a short word or phrase descriptive of a person, group, intellectual movement, etc.
3. a word or phrase indicating that what follows belongs in a particular category or classification: The following definition has the label “Architecture.”
4. a molding or dripstone over a door or window, especially one that extends horizontally across the top of the opening and vertically downward for a certain distance at the sides.
5. a brand or trademark, especially of a manufacturer of phonograph records, tape cassettes, etc.: She records under a new label.
6. the manufacturer using such a label: a major label that has produced some of the best recordings of the year.
7. a narrow horizontal strip with a number of downward extensions of rectangular or dovetail form, usually placed in chief as the cadency mark of an eldest son.
8. a strip or narrow piece of anything.

9. to affix a label to; mark with a label.
10. to designate or describe by or on a label: The bottle was labeled poison.
11. to put in a certain class; classify.
12. to incorporate a radioactive or heavy isotope into (a molecule) in order to make traceable.

1. a piece of paper, card, or other material attached to an object to identify it or give instructions or details concerning its ownership, use, nature, destination, etc; tag
2. a brief descriptive phrase or term given to a person, group, school of thought, etc
3. a word or phrase heading a piece of text to indicate or summarize its contents
4. a trademark or company or brand name on certain goods, esp, formerly, on gramophone records
5. another name for dripstone (def. 2)
6. a charge consisting of a horizontal line across the chief of a shield with three or more pendants: the charge of an eldest son
7. a group of characters, such as a number or a word, appended to a particular statement in a program to allow its unique identification
8. a radioactive element used in a compound to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction

9. to fasten a label to
10. to mark with a label
11. to describe or classify in a word or phrase
12. to make (one or more atoms in a compound) radioactive, for use in determining the mechanism of a reaction

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