labeln.¹

Brit.

/ˈleɪbl/, U.S.

/ˈleɪbəl/

Forms: Middle English–1500s labelle, Middle English–1600s labell, Middle English–1600s lable, Middle English– label, 1500s labil.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French label.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman labell, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French label (Middle French, French lambeau lambeau n., with epenthetic m ) mark of cadency, file (see file n.² 5) (second half of the 12th cent.), ribbon (second quarter of the 13th cent.), hanging strip or flap of flesh (c1250), long strip of fabric attached to and hanging loose from something (early 14th cent.) < an unattested Frankish form *labba (apparently cognate with the Germanic words cited at lap n.¹) + Anglo-Norman and Old French -el -el suffix². Compare lambeau n., lambel n.Compare post-classical Latin labellum narrow strip (of cloth), ribbon, fillet, especially on a mitre (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), (in heraldry) mark of cadency (from 13th cent. in British sources), slip indicating the contents of a box (15th cent. in a British source). Specific senses. Many senses, especially in branch III., appear to have developed within English. In sense 12 after label v. 5.

I. A narrow band or strip.

1. Astronomy and Surveying. A slender pointer that pivots about the centre of an astrolabe, quadrant, etc., and can be rotated across the face of the instrument to indicate an altitude or other measurement. Now chiefly historical.

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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > [noun] > astrolabe > label

labelc1392

c1392 Equatorie of Planetis 24 (MED) This rewle mot be shape in maner of a label on an astrelabie. The centre of this rewle shal be nayled to the centre of the forseide barre.

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §22. 13 Thanne hastow a label, þat is schapen lik a rewle, saue þat it is streit & hath no plates on either ende with holes.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vi. f. 285^v This Labell is diuided into 90. degrees twise set downe therein with Arithmeticall Figures.

1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) ii. xiii. 51 The degree and part of degree that the Label lies on is the height of the Sun above the Horizon.

1795 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. I. 152/1 The common Astrolabe..is fitted with a moveable label or index, which turns upon the centre, and carries two sights.

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXIX. at Quadrant To the centre is likewise, sometimes, fixed a label, or moveable index, bearing two other sights, like the index of a telescope.

1841 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 10 ii. 762 The arc of the quadrant between the horizontal line and the edge of the label, will evidently be the altitude required.

1998 Children's Lit. Assoc. Q. 23 35/1 The user of the astrolabe hangs it from his thumb and lets the sun shine through the smaller pair of holes on the label.

2. Heraldry. A charge consisting of a narrow band across the upper part of the shield having three (or sometimes five) short downward projections with a rectangular or dovetailed outline, most often borne as a temporary mark of cadency distinguishing the arms of an eldest son during the lifetime of his father (cf. file n.² 5). Also: †one of the downward projections (cf. lambeau n.) (obsolete).

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > horizontal line across upper part

labela1400

file1562

a1400 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Egerton) l. 974 Labelles [c1330 Auch. King Ermin..ȝaf him a scheld gode & sur Wiþ þre eglen of asur, Þe champe of gold ful wel i-diȝt Wiþ fif sables of seluer briȝt].

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) l. 868 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 514 For now of trowthe no man can contryve A verray seel or thenpreent i-grave Withoute a label his armes hool to save.

1486 Blasyng of Armys sig. fvii^v, in Bk. St. Albans Off armys barrit and of labellis borne in armys.

c1500 Sc. Poem Heraldry (Harl. 6149) 44 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 95 Nobillis bere merkis, to mak be knawin, ther douchtynes..:The fader the hole, the eldasty son deffer[e]nt, quhiche a labelle; a cressent the secound.

1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory f. 183 He beareth Argent, a fyle withe iii. Lambeaux Azure. For a difference some will call this a Labell of .iii. pointes.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. vi. 24 The Labell of the Heire apparent, (saith Wyrley) is seldome transferred vnto the second brother.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lambel,..a File with three Labells pendant.

a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 120 The Cheveron..distinguished by a file with five labels to shew that he was a fifth brother.

1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. vi. 100 The Arms of the Prince of Wales at this day, differ from those of the King, only by addition of a Label of three Points.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at File Some distinguish File and Label, calling the File the upper horizontal Line, and the Label the Point that issues from it.

1863 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 2) xiv. 153 A silver label of five points.

1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) ix. 46 A Label is sometimes borne as a sole Charge.

1904 Ancestor Jan. 154 The knights have large oblong alettes with their arms—silver with a fesse and label of gules—and gules with a silver eagle.

1963 Music & Lett. 44 242 The royal arms, France (modern) and England quarterly with a label of all three points argent each charged with as many roundles.

2002 A. Ailes in P. Cross & M. Keen Heraldry, Pageantry & Social Display Medieval Eng. v. 99 Richard had borne the royal arms differenced with a white label bearing three red roundels on each point.

†3.

a. A hanging strip of skin or flesh; a flap of skin or flesh. Obsolete.

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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece

latchetc1350

labelc1425

strip1459

slipea1552

slip1555

slippet1657

fillet1663

strappet1665

riband1766

streamer1810

strip1831

striplet1839

ribbon1847

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > narrow piece

sliverc1374

lista1398

labelc1425

reeve1726

stripe1785

slip1825

finger1839

striplet1839

slither1919

c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 99 (MED) Oon of þe beerners shuld..slitte þe skynn of þe þrote alenonlong the neke, and kytte labelles on eiþer side of þe skyn which shuld honge fulle vpon þe hede.

1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 5 The flesh and skin hung down in long Collops and Labels.

1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece iii. 249 Its Lungs..consisting of a thin, skinny Substance..divided into two Labels, placed on each side, and filled with Air; which being let out, those Labels shrunk together.

1796 B. Lara Dict. Surg. sig. E3^v Messrs. Verduin and Sabourin..left a label of the flesh and skin to wrap over the stump, and called it l'Operation de l'Amputation à Lambeau.

b. A long strip of fabric attached to and hanging loose from something, esp. a garment or item of headwear; a ribbon. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > other

label1440

tag1570

O1587

velvet-guard1598

seam1687

looping1690

patte1835

sequin1857

flot1872

torsade1872

Sicilian embroidery1882

astrakhan1887

goffering1889

fob1894

strass1926

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > bar of two horizontal lines

label1440

bar1592

trangle1725

society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > mitre > appendage to

label1552

phylacter1604

infula1610

phylactery1906

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 282 Labelle, labellum.

1469 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 401 (MED) j peyntrel, j croper with iiij labelle, j hedstall.

?1474 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 146 (MED) Thys be the stuffe of þe chapelle of Stonor..Item, vj labells of purpulle velvet wyth crossus.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum A labell hanging on each side of a miter, infula. Labelles hanging down on garlands, or crownes, lemnisci.

1564 A. Bacon tr. J. Jewel Apol. Churche Eng. sig. Pvj^v Peter..sytting in his Chaire, with his triple Crowne full of labelles.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. v. sig. Ff.iiij/1 Broad beneath and sharpe aboue, in facion somewhat like to the labell of a bishops Miter.

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. ii. 14 A knit night-cap..With two long labels button'd to his chin.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiii. 843 Desire they had to come unto him, to touch his right hand, and to cast garlands of flowers and labels of sundrie colours upon him.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xv. 79 Persons..whose outside seemed to have appropriated religion to the labels of their frontlets.

1654 H. Cogan tr. G. Lunadoro in Court of Rome 142 The Pall hath a kind of labell hanging down before to the brest, and two more behind..hanging downe to the reines, an hands breadth and an halfe long.

1729 J. Jones Instr. to Ld. Bishop St. Davids 15 He seems to advance that Superstition and Persecution ought to be the Appendages of a Crown, as they are the Labels of a Mitre.

1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms at Fillet The labels of a bishop's mitre.

c. A narrow strip of fabric attaching a seal to a document. Obsolete.

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society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] > attaching of seal > material attaching seal

double queuec1475

labela1513

sealing-thread1591

tag1688

stock1711

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxx An Instrument or wrytynge, at y^e which hynge many labellys with Sealys.

1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale iii. iv. 310 The diuersitie of the waxe: or the single or double labell, or the seale hanging in silke of diuers colours, making the difference of the letters to be knowne.

1672 E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter vi. 193 Sealed with the Great Seal of the Order, affixed to a Label of Blue Silk and Gold.

1681 J. Ker in J. Nalson Impartial Coll. of Great Affairs of State (1683) II. 529 He did stitch the Silk Cord or Label of that Seal, with Silk of the Colours of the said Label, and so fixed the Label and Seal to the said Commission.

1719 W. Nelson Care's Eng. Liberties (ed. 4) 86 One Leak, glued two Parchments so close together, that it could not be perceived, and then he put a Label thro' both, and upon the uppermost he wrote a Patent, and got the Great Seal fixed to the Label, then he took off the written Parchment, and left the Label hanging to the Blank, this was adjudged a great Misprision.

d. A narrow leaflet or segment of a leaf. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leaflet

lacinia1668

label1672

pinna1703

label1707

pinnula1707

ala1712

lobe1731

pinnule1751

lobe-leaf1758

leafit1761

little leaf1775

wing1776

foliole1785

leaflet1811

lobelet1850

auricle1861

lobule1880

pinnulet1881

pointrel1881

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iv. 116 If the Leaves be much indented or jagg'd, now we have the same Duplicature; where there are divers Plaits in the same Leaf, or Labels of a Leaf.

1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. i. i. 147 The several Labels or Scallops of the Leaf of Common Crowfoot, are all Curled Inward.

†4. A narrow strip of land. Obsolete.

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1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. viii. f. 14^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I By north of the Brier, lyeth the Rusco, which hath a Labell or Bylande stretching out toward the southwest.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 25 Where Balak met Balaam, standing as it were on his tiptoes on the very last labell of his land, to reach forth welcome to that false Prophet.

†5. A strip of metal used as a clamp. Obsolete.

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1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar xv. 39 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.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 335 Nine fryingpan-plates..claspt together by turning up 4 Labells which are ordinarily fixt to the lower plate.

6. Architecture. A moulding over a door, window, or other opening designed to deflect rain; a dripstone, a hood mould.Recorded earliest in label moulding n. at Compounds 3.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > drip-moulding

head moulding1806

label1811

label moulding1811

dripstone1815

head mould1827

label mould1837

weather-moulding1841

hood-mould1849

drip-moulding1851

hood-moulding1867

1811 La Belle Assemblée Oct. 214/2 The label mouldings being supported by corunated heads.

1821 E. J. Willson in A. Pugin Specimens Gothic Archit. I. 16 The square turn of the label was a mode introduced not much before this instance.

1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. ii. 30 The arches have no projecting label.

1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe iii. 62 Individual leaves set radially round an arch or label to form a continuous enrichment.

1975 Gesta 14 32/1 The upper string course does not wrap around the vertical shafts of the bay divisions while the false-gallery arch labels do; moreover, vertical shafts start anew above this label with a slenderer diameter.

2002 Oxoniensia 66 371 The south wall of the aisle originally displayed three windows of uniform design (of three trefoiled lights with reticulated tracery, two-centred heads with labels).

†II. A supplementary note appended to a text.

7. A supplementary note, comment, or clause appended to a text; a codicil. Also concrete: a small strip of paper or parchment attached to a document in order to provide supplementary information. Obsolete.Frequently in the context of religious controversy. In concrete use, apparently sometimes with a play on another sense, perhaps sense 3c. Strictly material use is found only in later sources, e.g.:

1658–1706 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Labels..little pieces of parchment cut out long-wayes, and hanging upon Indentures, or other kinde of writings.

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society > law > legal document > [noun] > endorsement or label

labela1425

endorsement1547

libel1603

docket1706

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > slip of > attached to document, codicil

labela1425

a1425 Of Mynystris in Chirche (Bodl. 788) in T. Arnold Sel. Eng. Wks. J. Wyclif (1871) II. 399 And so sich cursing of popis is tokene of blessing of God. And if þe Chirche were wel enformed of þis sentence, wiþ hise labellis, men shulden not drede feyned cursingis, ne lette for hem to sue Cristis lawe.

c1475 (a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 331 Certis if þise popis bulles shulen be undurstonden wiþ sich a label, þen-ne þei weren not profitable to þe purchasour ne to þe churche.

1562 Apol. Priuate Masse f. 29^v It is but a very fonde daliance to braule vpon the labelles, before you agree vpon the originall veritee. The trew sence of this littell sentence, This is my body that shal be deliuered for you, Is the roote and the originall of all suche labelles as wee teache.

1562 T. Cooper Answere Def. Truth f. 113 in Apol. Priuate Masse Wherfore Origine with this one sentence teareth of diuers of your counterfaited Labels, that you stitche to Christes testamentes by drifte of reason, without the warrant of his holy worde.

1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie f. 18^v Truly these consequents and labels depended of suche holy principles.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. i. 57 Ere this hand by thee to Romeos seald: Shall be the Labell to an other deed..this shall sley them both.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 75 Make us..read our duty in the pages of revelation, not in the labels of accidentall effects.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 80 It was presented to the King without any such saving label.

III. A piece of paper, etc., which provides information about something to which it is appended, and related senses.

a. A piece of paper, cardboard, metal, or other material, attached or intended to be attached to something in order to provide information about it; (hence) the information, or a piece of information, on the packaging of a product.Now the usual sense.Originally with reference to a small strip of paper or parchment (cf. sense 7).address label, book label, eco-label, luggage label, mailing label, name label, off-label, wine label, etc.: see the first element.

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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket

bill1474

schedule1523

label?1577

libel1603

tessera1656

check1812

price ticket1830

etiquette1831

sticker1862

tag1864

price tag1880

tab1883

tally1909

mailing label1959

swing-ticket1962

swing label1968

?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Dvi^v And bad me readen them as they [sc. writtes] arose, Naught but the Labell, and the parties name.

1586 R. Crowley Fryer Iohn Frauncis: Replication to Lewde Aunswere f. 9 I my selfe sawe one bone, that had a Label of parchment fastened to it, wherein was written, Os sancti Bartholomei, A bone of S. Bartholomew.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 431 When I wak'd, I found This Labell on my bosome.

1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 273 Meane time this Labell shall be writ and hung Upon your Gowne, to manifest our wrong: For love of bribes, and for contempt of right, My Master is become Anacorite.

1679 in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 549 Let several Labels from their mouths proceed, To note the different Tribes o' the Holy Seed: Here, ‘Root and Branch’; there, ‘Down with Babel, down!’

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 296 The Hamper was directed by a Label on the Cording.

1773 London Chron. 7 Sept. 248/3 Labels for bottles.

1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. iv. 72 Sometimes a short label [in or on Hogarth's figures] is an epigram, and is never introduced without improving the subject.

1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. xv. 129 A collection of books..is viewed through glass doors, their outsides and labels are visible to the child, but the key is carefully kept.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 5 With a brass label and number round his neck.

1841 J. Forbes Eleven Years in Ceylon (ed. 2) I. 131 ‘Fine cold-drawn castor-oil’ was found printed on the label.

1888 A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors vii. 99 Poison that is bought at a drugstore usually has a label on the bottle.

1927 F. Balfour-Browne Insects ix. 231 Such collected larvæ should be placed at once in small tubes of alcohol..with a numbered label.

1968 C. Brooke-Rose Between 3 On the bedside-table stands the bottle of mineral water, its label still illegible.

1982 N. Marsh Light Thickens ix. 243 He opened his wardrobe and took out a battered suitcase with old Aeroflot labels pasted on it.

1995 Which? Aug. 17/2 Consumers value nutrition labels as a primary source of information.

1995 K. Armstrong Through Narrow Gate (1997) iv. 84 The nuns who worked in the attached boarding school were already..sticking labels on lockers.

2006 Reader's Digest Apr. 163/1 (advt.) Always read the label. Contains levomenthol.

b. A piece of fabric sewn to a garment, typically on the inside, bearing the brand name, size, instructions for care, etc.

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1858 Aberdeen Jrnl. 2 June 2/6 (advt.) Messrs Nicoll..beg to notify that all Garments manufactured by them..have a distinguishing trade mark, in the form of a Label... The Label is made of Silk of two colours... Any Garments purchased without having such a Label sewn on, will not be of their manufacture.

1898 Denver Evening Post 10 June 5/4 (advt.) Every Hat guaranteed to be Union made as the labels (sewn in) in each attest.

1938 Fortune Sept. 126/1 The manufacturers sew this label into every hat they make, as a sign that they are observing the commission's fair-trade practices.

1961 Guardian 15 Sept. 10/1 Garments..will have sewn-in labels giving simple washing instructions.

1994 N.Y. Times 27 Nov. i. 67/1 Rodeo Ben sewed 12 prototypes before one finally satisfied all of Wrangler's requirements, which is why the number 13 is stamped on the inside label.

2017 E. R. Burchard & J. L. Carlone Cult Next Door 40 Male thighs in familiar corduroy pants with a tiny Gap label on the back pocket.

c. A brand name; a product sold under a particular brand name; a manufacturer or company selling such branded products. Now esp. with reference to the fashion industry.

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society > trade and finance > trading organization > [noun] > brand name of

label1895

banner1976

society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > brand-name

trade name1840

label1895

brand-name1922

society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun]

company1532

society1623

office1647

Co1679

concern1681

business1728

establishment1832

outfit1833

business administration1852

customer relations1920

enterprise1930

label1968

MNC1971

1895 Agency List & Handbk. Wine & Spirit Trade p. xxvii (advt.) Champagnes: Own Brands and Labels.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 13 June 10/1 If there was an amalgamation of six or seven houses whose names were household words, the outsider would at once go to the wall. Mr. Dewar thought the public suffered from this fondness for certain ‘labels’.

1926 P. M. Shand Bk. Wine v. 66 Montbazillac..is a label still met, which prepares one for a rich, sweet white wine.

1968 Times 29 Nov. p. iv/4 Since they are still price-maintained it is not possible for retailers to cut prices, though in recent years budget labels have emerged.

1971 Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 22/2 The suits come from the Highlight label and sell for 198/-.

1994 Bottom Line 15 Aug. 2/3 I like designer labels and good clothes.

2004 S. Zukin Point of Purchase 190 A 1968 article on scotch whiskies debunked the illusion of quality surrounding expensive labels.

2016 Daily Tel. 26 Aug. 27/1 She [sc. Sonia Rykiel] founded her eponymous label when she opened her own boutique on the Rue de Grenelle.

a. figurative. Something serving to provide information about a person or thing; esp. a classifying word or phrase applied to a person or thing (sometimes with the implication that such classification is inaccurate, simplistic, or restrictive).

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1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie sig. Q4^v On his sheephooke hung two sonnets as labels of his loues & fortunes.

1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 3 About his Neck There hung a Wench; the Labell of his Function.

a1817 T. Dwight Theol. explained & Defended (1819) civ. 569 The profane person carries with him the label of rejection; the mark of outlawry from virtuous society; a label, voluntarily worn; a mark, branded by himself.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 4 To the critic of the schools, ever ready with the compendious label, he is the revolutionary destructive.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xi. 444 The only things which we preperceive are those which have been labelled for us, and the labels stamped into our mind.

1918 Times 19 June 6/4 The Independent Nationalist Press..has applied the label ‘defeatist’ to those Nationalists who voted for a moderate policy at the Irish Convention.

1945 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Sept. 11/2 They bear the label of Quislingism, but they also carry the cross of illegitimacy.

1965 P. White Let. 21 Mar. (1994) ix. 278 If this goes to London I am sure the intellectual papers will give it that popular label High Camp.

1988 M. Yorke Spirit of Place (2001) 11 The labels we use for art movements or groups of painters come from reviewers, art historians and, in some cases, from the artists themselves.

2017 Teen Vogue 19 No. 1. 112/1 Labels like ‘straight’ and ‘gay’..are starting to feel too narrow, overlooking an entire swath of sexuality.

b. In a dictionary entry: a word or phrase used (often in italics) to specify the geographical area, register, etc., to which the term being defined belongs.

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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > parts of a dictionary entry > label

label1911

1911 H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler Conc. Oxf. Dict. Pref. p. v We admit colloquial, facetious, slang, and vulgar expressions with freedom, merely attaching a cautionary label.

1962 A. W. Read in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 221 The average Englishman, accustomed to the labels Americanism, Scotticism, provincialism, etc. for designating locutions to be avoided, [etc.].

1988 R. W. Burchfield in T. L. Burton & J. Burton Lexicogr. & Ling. Stud. 186 It has been customary for English lexicographers to make free use of regional labels like U.S., Brit. (or U.K.), Austral., N.Z., and so on.

2012 S. Ogilvie Words of World iii. 86 Labels such as offensive, derogatory, or pejorative are good ways for a lexicographer to indicate usage.

10. An adhesive postage stamp. Philately in later use.See also postage label n. at postage n.¹ Compounds.

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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp

postage stamp1829

stamp1837

label1839

head1840

queen's head1840

postage label1852

adhesive1854

sticker1863

1839 Times 18 July 6/4 The postage might be defrayed by means of penny stamps, or labels, which being very small, could with ease be carried about, and stuck upon letters.

1840 Legal Guide 2 May 15/1 Sheet of 1d. labels, containing 240 Stamps.

1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne III. xii. 234 Having put her penny label on it, she handed it..to the baker's wife, who was Her Majesty's postmistress at Greshamsbury.

1872 Philatelist Album Foreign Postage Stamps (ed. 3) Pref. There is a vast deal of information gained from the study of these labels, coming as they do from every part of the world.

1916 Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News 1 July 238/3 These new 20c and 50c labels were issued on February 17th, 1893.

1992 Gibbons Stamp Monthly Mar. 47/1 Queen Anne..appears on a sheetlet of five stamps issued by Dominica..which also includes a label depicting her husband, Prince George of Denmark.

2012 Stamp Mag. Nov. 54/2 Three philatelic packs comprising labels in simple envelopes were offered to collectors by the Philatelic Bureau in Edinburgh.

11.

a. A circular piece of paper in the centre of a gramophone record, giving information about the song title, artist, etc.; (also) the record itself.record label, white label: see the first element.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > section of record or recording company

label1907

record label1926

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > other parts

jacket sleeve1599

album cover1839

label1907

jacket1935

record sleeve1951

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 1037/1 Not more than one old 7 in. record will be allowed for against each New Concert Red Label, or 12 in. Record.

1926 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 26 Nov. 4/7 (advt.) Look for the words ‘Orthographic Recording’ on the record label. It is your guarantee that you are getting the best artists, the best selections, the best quality record that money can buy.

1929 Melody Maker Apr. 369/1 A very fine example of this ‘Scat Singing’ is in ‘Candy Lips’ by Louis Armstrong's Washboard Beaters.., the label rightly describing it as ‘Scat’ chorus by Clarence Williams.

1939 S. W. Smith in F. Ramsey & C. E. Smith Jazzmen 289 There are those who will have nothing but the original label.

1973 Billboard 31 Mar. 3/4 The firm's stock of old labels will be used on catalog albums until the supply is exhausted.

2008 Wire Feb. 65/3 Additional information like songwriter and publishing credits and timings were meticulously detailed on the labels.

b. A recording company, or a section of one, producing and releasing records under a distinctive name; = record label n. (b) at record n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2.

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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > companies involved in specific business

misbeliefa1450

safeguarda1450

squatc1450

smearc1476

bleach1486

poulterer1534

water company1710

land-company1805

publishing house1819

railway company1824

oil company1827

bus line1843

rails1848

accountancy1860

art house1882

poulter1884

automaker1899

energy company1910

record label1926

label1930

utility1930

re-roller1931

prefabricator1933

seven sisters1962

energy firm1970

chipmaker1971

fragmentizer1972

fixit1984

infomediary1989

multi-utility1994

1930 N.Y. Times 11 May ix. 8/1 This quartet is also to be had under the Victor label, in the Masterpiece without album series, by the Budapest String Quartet.

1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xviii. 216 The QRS Piano Roll Company was taking a flier in the record business and they invited Earl to record for their new label.

1957 G. Evans in D. Cerulli et al. Jazz Word (1962) 174 A friend of mine..was told by an a&r man at a relatively new major label that if he insisted on charging scale, he'd never be used there again.

1971 Daily Tel. 16 Aug. 6/3 Are there precedents for a primadonna appearing on three different labels virtually at the same time?

2013 T. Thorn Bedsit Disco Queen 339 Ben had carried on a kind of parallel life,..starting his own dance label, Buzzin' Fly, and its subsidiary alt-rock imprint, Strange Feeling.

12. Biology and Chemistry. A radioactive isotope, fluorescent dye, enzyme, etc., that can be incorporated in or attached to a molecule, cell, etc., to enable that molecule, cell, etc., to be identified experimentally (cf. label v. 5). Occasionally as a mass noun: material of this kind.affinity label, radiolabel, spin label, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > labelling

label1935

radiolabelling1959

radio-tagging1959

pulse-labelling1961

1935 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 111 164 In order successfully to label a physiological substance, it is essential that the chemical and physical properties of the labeled substance be so similar to the unlabeled one that the animal organism will not be able to differentiate between them. The chemist, on the other hand, must be able to distinguish and to estimate them in small quantities and at high dilutions. A possibility for such a label is the use of an isotope.

1962 R. C. Nairn Fluorescent Protein Tracing i. 1 The choice of a tracing method with fluorescent rather than radioactive labels is governed by the type of information sought.

1989 Nature 14 Dec. 800/1 Morphometric quantification of data obtained under basal conditions, indicated that the majority of label was located in an intracellular compartment of the endothelial cells.

2007 Nature 5 July 4/1 These probes [sc. small molecules] bind specific amino-acid sequences and are smaller than the fluorescent proteins commonly used as labels, making them less likely to interfere with protein function or localization.

13. Computing. A character or set of characters used as the name of a statement in a program so as to facilitate reference to the statement elsewhere in the program.

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society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > identifier > for program statements

label1958

1958 Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery 1 14 A statement may be made identifiable by attaching to it a label L, which is an identifier I, or an integer G (with the meaning of identifier). The label precedes the statement labeled, and is separated from it by the separator colon (:).

1969 P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 272 The use of labels makes it easier to write programs, for mnemonic names may be used for labels..and the programmer is relieved of the detail of maintaining the layout of locations assigned in the computer memory.

1987 B. Leatham-Jones Elements Industr. Robotics vii. 183 Within a sequence program, branches may be made to a specific sequence line number or to a user-defined meaningful reference word called a label.

2005 C. Maxfield & A. Brown Definitive Guide how Computers do Math 393 The first thing we do when we enter the routine at label GETNUM is to pop the return address off the stack and store it away.

14. Computing. A set of data recorded on a tape, disk, etc., that describe the medium and its contents.

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society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > storage > means of identifying

label1961

1961 L. W. Hein Introd. Electronic Data Processing ix. 170 To prevent the incorrect use of tape files, internal labels should be incorporated into every tape.

1967 D. J. McLachlan & B. Molsom Data Processing xiii. 187 One item usually written in the label is known as a retention period, or purge date... This is to provide on the tape information from which a program can detect whether the data recorded on the tape is out of date and can be overwritten.

1980 C. S. French Computer Sci. xii. 65 Each tape file will generally have two records which serve organisational requirements... These two records are usually referred to as labels. One comes at the beginning of the file and the other at the end.

2016 J. A. Hall Information Technol. Auditing (ed. 4) vii. 294 Magnetic tapes and disks also have internal labels also called header labels that identify the physical storage device as well as the data files they contain.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, with the sense ‘of or relating to a recording company’ (see sense 11b), as label boss, label compilation, label head, etc.

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1947 Billboard 15 Mar. 16/2 Other label reps..had indicated their interest in attending.

1962 New Pittsburgh Courier 4 Aug. 14 The talented trio is adopting a wait-and-see attitude toward their present label bosses, who have issued only one release since they inked the pact almost a year ago.

1982 Washington Post 20 June m10/2 Americans don't like their reggae too musically raw or spiritually militant, or so the label execs tell each other.

1994 Magnet May 7/1 We sent you some label compilations and CDs..hope you like them.

2013 Oxf. Amer. Winter 30/2 RCA..promoted the easy-listening Nashville Sound, a production style that label head Chet Atkins developed in the late '50s.

C2. Objective (in sense 8a), as label-cutter, label-licking, label-paster, label printer, label printing, etc.

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1836 N.-Y. Spectator 12 Sept. 1/2 The Xylographic engravings of Crump & Co...are extremely beautiful. The invention of this style is an era in the history of label printing.

1854 Ann. Reg. 1853 Patents 536/1 Twigg, label cutters.

1886 Amer. Bookmaker Apr. 132/1 At the present time the mill is making a grade of paper best adapted to the use of the label printer, for the reason that it will hold up the ink, so that the lustre is not lost.

1889 A. T. Pask Eyes of Thames 172 They have been book-binders, boot-closers, label-pasters, and such like.

1899 St. James's Gaz. 8 Sept. 14/2 Label-licking, which is practised largely in thread mills and aerated water factories.

1960 Current Industr. Rep.: Office, Computing, & Accounting Machines 1959 (U.S. Dept. Commerce) 3 Envelope opening and sealing machines; label gummers; and price marking machines.

1986 M. S. Favero et al. in B. M. Miller et al. Lab. Safety ix. 50/1 Accidents associated with mouth pipetting, label licking, splashes or splatterings.

1994 What PC? Oct. 145 (advt.) Other A.L. Group Services:..Mailsort; Label printing; Laser printing; Tape and disk recovery [etc.].

1997 This Caring Profession July 37/1 Badgemaster..is offering the latest Brother Electronic label printer, completely free, with any order for 250 award winning custom-made name badges.

C3.

label cloth n. cloth used to make labels for books.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > cloth

book cloth1851

label cloth1869

mull1880

super1914

1869 Leeds Mercury 30 Oct. 2/5 (advt.) Fancy cards, label cloth, printing paper, [etc.].

1891 Daily News 1 Dec. 2/3 The manufacture of book cloth, tracing cloth, label cloth, and grey cloth.

a1996 H. Regnery Perfect Sowing (1999) i. 17 The same equipment used to manufacture shade cloth could also be used to produce such fabrics as book-binding cloth, tag cloth, label cloth, tracing cloth, sign cloth and much else.

label ink n. ink used for marking labels.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun] > ink for marking labels

label ink1844

1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 500 [It] forms a most excellent label-ink for the laboratory, as it is unaffected by acid vapours.

1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes vii. 269 Para reds, and Fire reds are quite ‘dirty’ in color, are semi-transparent and used mostly in poster and label inks.

2007 S. L. Belcher Pract. Guide Injection Blow Molding iii. 11 Past decorating such as paper labelling, silk screening, and hot stamping may alter the label ink used in labeling blow molded containers.

† label-lolling adj. Obsolete rare hanging down like a label (sense 3).

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1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe v. 237 These mushrumps (grounded vpon a lesse motiue) may not bee questioned, though nothing so euident as a blareing label-lolling tongue, which without the helpe of a Muffler, could not be so well concealed.

labelmate n. [ < label n.¹ + mate n.², punningly after stable-mate n. at stable n.¹ Compounds 2] Music a fellow artist or musician recording for the same record label.

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1967 Chicago Daily Defender 9 Aug. 4/1 Also headlining the big parade are: Redding's ‘label mate’ Carla Thomas, College Inn star Ike Cole, and the Clark Terry-Bobby Brookmeyer Quintet.

1989 HMV Christmas Mag. 13 (caption) Having lost the ‘jazz-funk’ tag that put paid to labelmate Shakatak, Level 42 have introduced a balance of pop and rock that makes them perfect for the car CD.

2003 A. Greenwald Nothing feels Good i. ii. 25 Despite touring with labelmates Nirvana and (the by-now famous) Green Day, the album sold poorly and the band broke up.

label mould n. Architecture a moulding over a door, window, or other opening designed to deflect rain; = sense 6.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > drip-moulding

head moulding1806

label1811

label moulding1811

dripstone1815

head mould1827

label mould1837

weather-moulding1841

hood-mould1849

drip-moulding1851

hood-moulding1867

1837 Archit. Mag. Dec. 572 The windows, finished with crocketed label moulds, will cost no more than a window with mullions, branching out into tracery.

1878 R. B. MacVittie Details Restoration Christ Church Cathedral Dublin 67 Over the large pointed arch is a label-mould.

2002 Ulster Jrnl. Archaeol. 61 131/1 The side windows of the two churches are almost identical, consisting as they do of three cusped lights under a flat arch with a label mould above.

label moulding n. Architecture a moulding over a door, window, or other opening designed to deflect rain; = sense 6.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > drip-moulding

head moulding1806

label1811

label moulding1811

dripstone1815

head mould1827

label mould1837

weather-moulding1841

hood-mould1849

drip-moulding1851

hood-moulding1867

1811 La Belle Assemblée Oct. 214/2 The label mouldings being supported by corunated heads.

1830 A. E. Bray Fitz of Fitz-ford I. iv. 79 A well-turned archway, ornamented with the oak-branch and the label-moulding.

1998 Archit. Hist. 41 271 A pointed window with a label moulding on the ground floor.

† label-seal n. Obsolete rare a seal attached to a document by a narrow strip of fabric; see sense 3c.

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society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] > seal > other seals

bull1340

printerc1425

counter-seal1611

label-seal1679

gum-seal1826

1679 Ld. Willoughby in R. Mansell Exact & True Narr. Late Popish Intrigue (1680) 21 A Commission, with thirteen Label-seals, and as many Names thereto.

label stop n. Architecture a boss or corbel supporting the end of a label (sense 6).

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > corbel

corbetc1384

corbel-stone1425

corbelc1440

corbel-table1448

shouldering piece1585

corbe1596

souse1838

corbel-tabling1848

corbel-piece1850

label stop1862

1862 Builder 8 Mar. 172/1 Their wall plane being diapered and otherwise enriched with carved capitals, label stops, and patera.

1894 C. G. Harper Marches of Wales 132 A carefully rendered little head..carved on the label-stop of the canopy.

2011 Jrnl. Galway Archaeol. & Hist. Soc. 63 66/1 Disembodied heads were commonly employed in Irish Gothic buildings. They often occur singly, perhaps as a label stop on a window.

Derivatives

ˈlabelless adj. without a label or labels.

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1893 Science 7 Apr. 195/1 An entirely incorrect theory is embedded, labelless, in a mass of facts.

1937 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 8 Apr. 6/4 Labelless bottles and jars are..given to the children.

1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse xi. 461 We celebrated the number five with a tuck of something from a small, labelless tin that we could identify only as deviled something.

2000 Witness 14 163 Camouflage uniforms, labelless, splotched in three dull greens, baggy, are passed around the plane, claimed by approximate size.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	label
释义	labeln.¹ Brit. /ˈleɪbl/, U.S. /ˈleɪbəl/ Forms: Middle English–1500s labelle, Middle English–1600s labell, Middle English–1600s lable, Middle English– label, 1500s labil. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French label. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman labell, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French label (Middle French, French lambeau lambeau n., with epenthetic m ) mark of cadency, file (see file n.² 5) (second half of the 12th cent.), ribbon (second quarter of the 13th cent.), hanging strip or flap of flesh (c1250), long strip of fabric attached to and hanging loose from something (early 14th cent.) < an unattested Frankish form labba (apparently cognate with the Germanic words cited at lap n.¹) + Anglo-Norman and Old French -el* -el suffix². Compare lambeau n., lambel n.Compare post-classical Latin labellum narrow strip (of cloth), ribbon, fillet, especially on a mitre (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), (in heraldry) mark of cadency (from 13th cent. in British sources), slip indicating the contents of a box (15th cent. in a British source). Specific senses. Many senses, especially in branch III., appear to have developed within English. In sense 12 after label v. 5. I. A narrow band or strip. 1. Astronomy and Surveying. A slender pointer that pivots about the centre of an astrolabe, quadrant, etc., and can be rotated across the face of the instrument to indicate an altitude or other measurement. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > [noun] > astrolabe > label labelc1392 c1392 Equatorie of Planetis 24 (MED) This rewle mot be shape in maner of a label on an astrelabie. The centre of this rewle shal be nayled to the centre of the forseide barre. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §22. 13 Thanne hastow a label, þat is schapen lik a rewle, saue þat it is streit & hath no plates on either ende with holes. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vi. f. 285^v This Labell is diuided into 90. degrees twise set downe therein with Arithmeticall Figures. 1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) ii. xiii. 51 The degree and part of degree that the Label lies on is the height of the Sun above the Horizon. 1795 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. I. 152/1 The common Astrolabe..is fitted with a moveable label or index, which turns upon the centre, and carries two sights. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXIX. at Quadrant To the centre is likewise, sometimes, fixed a label, or moveable index, bearing two other sights, like the index of a telescope. 1841 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 10 ii. 762 The arc of the quadrant between the horizontal line and the edge of the label, will evidently be the altitude required. 1998 Children's Lit. Assoc. Q. 23 35/1 The user of the astrolabe hangs it from his thumb and lets the sun shine through the smaller pair of holes on the label. 2. Heraldry. A charge consisting of a narrow band across the upper part of the shield having three (or sometimes five) short downward projections with a rectangular or dovetailed outline, most often borne as a temporary mark of cadency distinguishing the arms of an eldest son during the lifetime of his father (cf. file n.² 5). Also: †one of the downward projections (cf. lambeau n.) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > horizontal line across upper part labela1400 file1562 a1400 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Egerton) l. 974 Labelles [c1330 Auch. King Ermin..ȝaf him a scheld gode & sur Wiþ þre eglen of asur, Þe champe of gold ful wel i-diȝt Wiþ fif sables of seluer briȝt]. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) l. 868 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 514 For now of trowthe no man can contryve A verray seel or thenpreent i-grave Withoute a label his armes hool to save. 1486 Blasyng of Armys sig. fvii^v, in Bk. St. Albans Off armys barrit and of labellis borne in armys. c1500 Sc. Poem Heraldry (Harl. 6149) 44 in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 95 Nobillis bere merkis, to mak be knawin, ther douchtynes..:The fader the hole, the eldasty son deffer[e]nt, quhiche a labelle; a cressent the secound. 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory f. 183 He beareth Argent, a fyle withe iii. Lambeaux Azure. For a difference some will call this a Labell of .iii. pointes. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. vi. 24 The Labell of the Heire apparent, (saith Wyrley) is seldome transferred vnto the second brother. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lambel,..a File with three Labells pendant. a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 120 The Cheveron..distinguished by a file with five labels to shew that he was a fifth brother. 1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. vi. 100 The Arms of the Prince of Wales at this day, differ from those of the King, only by addition of a Label of three Points. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at File Some distinguish File and Label, calling the File the upper horizontal Line, and the Label the Point that issues from it. 1863 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 2) xiv. 153 A silver label of five points. 1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) ix. 46 A Label is sometimes borne as a sole Charge. 1904 Ancestor Jan. 154 The knights have large oblong alettes with their arms—silver with a fesse and label of gules—and gules with a silver eagle. 1963 Music & Lett. 44 242 The royal arms, France (modern) and England quarterly with a label of all three points argent each charged with as many roundles. 2002 A. Ailes in P. Cross & M. Keen Heraldry, Pageantry & Social Display Medieval Eng. v. 99 Richard had borne the royal arms differenced with a white label bearing three red roundels on each point. †3. a. A hanging strip of skin or flesh; a flap of skin or flesh. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece latchetc1350 labelc1425 strip1459 slipea1552 slip1555 slippet1657 fillet1663 strappet1665 riband1766 streamer1810 strip1831 striplet1839 ribbon1847 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > narrow piece sliverc1374 lista1398 labelc1425 reeve1726 stripe1785 slip1825 finger1839 striplet1839 slither1919 c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 99 (MED) Oon of þe beerners shuld..slitte þe skynn of þe þrote alenonlong the neke, and kytte labelles on eiþer side of þe skyn which shuld honge fulle vpon þe hede. 1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 5 The flesh and skin hung down in long Collops and Labels. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece iii. 249 Its Lungs..consisting of a thin, skinny Substance..divided into two Labels, placed on each side, and filled with Air; which being let out, those Labels shrunk together. 1796 B. Lara Dict. Surg. sig. E3^v Messrs. Verduin and Sabourin..left a label of the flesh and skin to wrap over the stump, and called it l'Operation de l'Amputation à Lambeau. b. A long strip of fabric attached to and hanging loose from something, esp. a garment or item of headwear; a ribbon. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > other label1440 tag1570 O1587 velvet-guard1598 seam1687 looping1690 patte1835 sequin1857 flot1872 torsade1872 Sicilian embroidery1882 astrakhan1887 goffering1889 fob1894 strass1926 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > bar of two horizontal lines label1440 bar1592 trangle1725 society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > mitre > appendage to label1552 phylacter1604 infula1610 phylactery1906 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 282 Labelle, labellum. 1469 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 401 (MED) j peyntrel, j croper with iiij labelle, j hedstall. ?1474 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 146 (MED) Thys be the stuffe of þe chapelle of Stonor..Item, vj labells of purpulle velvet wyth crossus. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum A labell hanging on each side of a miter, infula. Labelles hanging down on garlands, or crownes, lemnisci. 1564 A. Bacon tr. J. Jewel Apol. Churche Eng. sig. Pvj^v Peter..sytting in his Chaire, with his triple Crowne full of labelles. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. v. sig. Ff.iiij/1 Broad beneath and sharpe aboue, in facion somewhat like to the labell of a bishops Miter. 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. ii. 14 A knit night-cap..With two long labels button'd to his chin. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiii. 843 Desire they had to come unto him, to touch his right hand, and to cast garlands of flowers and labels of sundrie colours upon him. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xv. 79 Persons..whose outside seemed to have appropriated religion to the labels of their frontlets. 1654 H. Cogan tr. G. Lunadoro in Court of Rome 142 The Pall hath a kind of labell hanging down before to the brest, and two more behind..hanging downe to the reines, an hands breadth and an halfe long. 1729 J. Jones Instr. to Ld. Bishop St. Davids 15 He seems to advance that Superstition and Persecution ought to be the Appendages of a Crown, as they are the Labels of a Mitre. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms at Fillet The labels of a bishop's mitre. c. A narrow strip of fabric attaching a seal to a document. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] > attaching of seal > material attaching seal double queuec1475 labela1513 sealing-thread1591 tag1688 stock1711 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxx An Instrument or wrytynge, at y^e which hynge many labellys with Sealys. 1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale iii. iv. 310 The diuersitie of the waxe: or the single or double labell, or the seale hanging in silke of diuers colours, making the difference of the letters to be knowne. 1672 E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter vi. 193 Sealed with the Great Seal of the Order, affixed to a Label of Blue Silk and Gold. 1681 J. Ker in J. Nalson Impartial Coll. of Great Affairs of State (1683) II. 529 He did stitch the Silk Cord or Label of that Seal, with Silk of the Colours of the said Label, and so fixed the Label and Seal to the said Commission. 1719 W. Nelson Care's Eng. Liberties (ed. 4) 86 One Leak, glued two Parchments so close together, that it could not be perceived, and then he put a Label thro' both, and upon the uppermost he wrote a Patent, and got the Great Seal fixed to the Label, then he took off the written Parchment, and left the Label hanging to the Blank, this was adjudged a great Misprision. d. A narrow leaflet or segment of a leaf. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leaflet lacinia1668 label1672 pinna1703 label1707 pinnula1707 ala1712 lobe1731 pinnule1751 lobe-leaf1758 leafit1761 little leaf1775 wing1776 foliole1785 leaflet1811 lobelet1850 auricle1861 lobule1880 pinnulet1881 pointrel1881 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iv. 116 If the Leaves be much indented or jagg'd, now we have the same Duplicature; where there are divers Plaits in the same Leaf, or Labels of a Leaf. 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. i. i. 147 The several Labels or Scallops of the Leaf of Common Crowfoot, are all Curled Inward. †4. A narrow strip of land. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. viii. f. 14^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I By north of the Brier, lyeth the Rusco, which hath a Labell or Bylande stretching out toward the southwest. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. ii. 25 Where Balak met Balaam, standing as it were on his tiptoes on the very last labell of his land, to reach forth welcome to that false Prophet. †5. A strip of metal used as a clamp. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar xv. 39 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. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 335 Nine fryingpan-plates..claspt together by turning up 4 Labells which are ordinarily fixt to the lower plate. 6. Architecture. A moulding over a door, window, or other opening designed to deflect rain; a dripstone, a hood mould.Recorded earliest in label moulding n. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > drip-moulding head moulding1806 label1811 label moulding1811 dripstone1815 head mould1827 label mould1837 weather-moulding1841 hood-mould1849 drip-moulding1851 hood-moulding1867 1811 La Belle Assemblée Oct. 214/2 The label mouldings being supported by corunated heads. 1821 E. J. Willson in A. Pugin Specimens Gothic Archit. I. 16 The square turn of the label was a mode introduced not much before this instance. 1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. ii. 30 The arches have no projecting label. 1936 A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. W. Europe iii. 62 Individual leaves set radially round an arch or label to form a continuous enrichment. 1975 Gesta 14 32/1 The upper string course does not wrap around the vertical shafts of the bay divisions while the false-gallery arch labels do; moreover, vertical shafts start anew above this label with a slenderer diameter. 2002 Oxoniensia 66 371 The south wall of the aisle originally displayed three windows of uniform design (of three trefoiled lights with reticulated tracery, two-centred heads with labels). †II. A supplementary note appended to a text. 7. A supplementary note, comment, or clause appended to a text; a codicil. Also concrete: a small strip of paper or parchment attached to a document in order to provide supplementary information. Obsolete.Frequently in the context of religious controversy. In concrete use, apparently sometimes with a play on another sense, perhaps sense 3c. Strictly material use is found only in later sources, e.g.: 1658–1706 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Labels..little pieces of parchment cut out long-wayes, and hanging upon Indentures, or other kinde of writings. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > [noun] > endorsement or label labela1425 endorsement1547 libel1603 docket1706 society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > slip of > attached to document, codicil labela1425 a1425 Of Mynystris in Chirche (Bodl. 788) in T. Arnold Sel. Eng. Wks. J. Wyclif (1871) II. 399 And so sich cursing of popis is tokene of blessing of God. And if þe Chirche were wel enformed of þis sentence, wiþ hise labellis, men shulden not drede feyned cursingis, ne lette for hem to sue Cristis lawe. c1475 (a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 331 Certis if þise popis bulles shulen be undurstonden wiþ sich a label, þen-ne þei weren not profitable to þe purchasour ne to þe churche. 1562 Apol. Priuate Masse f. 29^v It is but a very fonde daliance to braule vpon the labelles, before you agree vpon the originall veritee. The trew sence of this littell sentence, This is my body that shal be deliuered for you, Is the roote and the originall of all suche labelles as wee teache. 1562 T. Cooper Answere Def. Truth f. 113 in Apol. Priuate Masse Wherfore Origine with this one sentence teareth of diuers of your counterfaited Labels, that you stitche to Christes testamentes by drifte of reason, without the warrant of his holy worde. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. F. Staphylus Apologie f. 18^v Truly these consequents and labels depended of suche holy principles. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. i. 57 Ere this hand by thee to Romeos seald: Shall be the Labell to an other deed..this shall sley them both. View more context for this quotation 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 75 Make us..read our duty in the pages of revelation, not in the labels of accidentall effects. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 80 It was presented to the King without any such saving label. III. A piece of paper, etc., which provides information about something to which it is appended, and related senses. 8. a. A piece of paper, cardboard, metal, or other material, attached or intended to be attached to something in order to provide information about it; (hence) the information, or a piece of information, on the packaging of a product.Now the usual sense.Originally with reference to a small strip of paper or parchment (cf. sense 7).address label, book label, eco-label, luggage label, mailing label, name label, off-label, wine label, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket bill1474 schedule1523 label?1577 libel1603 tessera1656 check1812 price ticket1830 etiquette1831 sticker1862 tag1864 price tag1880 tab1883 tally1909 mailing label1959 swing-ticket1962 swing label1968 ?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Dvi^v And bad me readen them as they [sc. writtes] arose, Naught but the Labell, and the parties name. 1586 R. Crowley Fryer Iohn Frauncis: Replication to Lewde Aunswere f. 9 I my selfe sawe one bone, that had a Label of parchment fastened to it, wherein was written, Os sancti Bartholomei, A bone of S. Bartholomew. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 431 When I wak'd, I found This Labell on my bosome. View more context for this quotation 1658 R. Brathwait Age of Apes in Honest Ghost 273 Meane time this Labell shall be writ and hung Upon your Gowne, to manifest our wrong: For love of bribes, and for contempt of right, My Master is become Anacorite. 1679 in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 549 Let several Labels from their mouths proceed, To note the different Tribes o' the Holy Seed: Here, ‘Root and Branch’; there, ‘Down with Babel, down!’ 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 296 The Hamper was directed by a Label on the Cording. 1773 London Chron. 7 Sept. 248/3 Labels for bottles. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. iv. 72 Sometimes a short label [in or on Hogarth's figures] is an epigram, and is never introduced without improving the subject. 1797 W. Godwin Enquirer i. xv. 129 A collection of books..is viewed through glass doors, their outsides and labels are visible to the child, but the key is carefully kept. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 5 With a brass label and number round his neck. 1841 J. Forbes Eleven Years in Ceylon (ed. 2) I. 131 ‘Fine cold-drawn castor-oil’ was found printed on the label. 1888 A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors vii. 99 Poison that is bought at a drugstore usually has a label on the bottle. 1927 F. Balfour-Browne Insects ix. 231 Such collected larvæ should be placed at once in small tubes of alcohol..with a numbered label. 1968 C. Brooke-Rose Between 3 On the bedside-table stands the bottle of mineral water, its label still illegible. 1982 N. Marsh Light Thickens ix. 243 He opened his wardrobe and took out a battered suitcase with old Aeroflot labels pasted on it. 1995 Which? Aug. 17/2 Consumers value nutrition labels as a primary source of information. 1995 K. Armstrong Through Narrow Gate (1997) iv. 84 The nuns who worked in the attached boarding school were already..sticking labels on lockers. 2006 Reader's Digest Apr. 163/1 (advt.) Always read the label. Contains levomenthol. b. A piece of fabric sewn to a garment, typically on the inside, bearing the brand name, size, instructions for care, etc. ΚΠ 1858 Aberdeen Jrnl. 2 June 2/6 (advt.) Messrs Nicoll..beg to notify that all Garments manufactured by them..have a distinguishing trade mark, in the form of a Label... The Label is made of Silk of two colours... Any Garments purchased without having such a Label sewn on, will not be of their manufacture. 1898 Denver Evening Post 10 June 5/4 (advt.) Every Hat guaranteed to be Union made as the labels (sewn in) in each attest. 1938 Fortune Sept. 126/1 The manufacturers sew this label into every hat they make, as a sign that they are observing the commission's fair-trade practices. 1961 Guardian 15 Sept. 10/1 Garments..will have sewn-in labels giving simple washing instructions. 1994 N.Y. Times 27 Nov. i. 67/1 Rodeo Ben sewed 12 prototypes before one finally satisfied all of Wrangler's requirements, which is why the number 13 is stamped on the inside label. 2017 E. R. Burchard & J. L. Carlone Cult Next Door 40 Male thighs in familiar corduroy pants with a tiny Gap label on the back pocket. c. A brand name; a product sold under a particular brand name; a manufacturer or company selling such branded products. Now esp. with reference to the fashion industry. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading organization > [noun] > brand name of label1895 banner1976 society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > brand-name trade name1840 label1895 brand-name1922 society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] company1532 society1623 office1647 Co1679 concern1681 business1728 establishment1832 outfit1833 business administration1852 customer relations1920 enterprise1930 label1968 MNC1971 1895 Agency List & Handbk. Wine & Spirit Trade p. xxvii (advt.) Champagnes: Own Brands and Labels. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 13 June 10/1 If there was an amalgamation of six or seven houses whose names were household words, the outsider would at once go to the wall. Mr. Dewar thought the public suffered from this fondness for certain ‘labels’. 1926 P. M. Shand Bk. Wine v. 66 Montbazillac..is a label still met, which prepares one for a rich, sweet white wine. 1968 Times 29 Nov. p. iv/4 Since they are still price-maintained it is not possible for retailers to cut prices, though in recent years budget labels have emerged. 1971 Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 22/2 The suits come from the Highlight label and sell for 198/-. 1994 Bottom Line 15 Aug. 2/3 I like designer labels and good clothes. 2004 S. Zukin Point of Purchase 190 A 1968 article on scotch whiskies debunked the illusion of quality surrounding expensive labels. 2016 Daily Tel. 26 Aug. 27/1 She [sc. Sonia Rykiel] founded her eponymous label when she opened her own boutique on the Rue de Grenelle. 9. a. figurative. Something serving to provide information about a person or thing; esp. a classifying word or phrase applied to a person or thing (sometimes with the implication that such classification is inaccurate, simplistic, or restrictive). ΚΠ 1590 T. Lodge Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacie sig. Q4^v On his sheephooke hung two sonnets as labels of his loues & fortunes. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 3 About his Neck There hung a Wench; the Labell of his Function. a1817 T. Dwight Theol. explained & Defended (1819) civ. 569 The profane person carries with him the label of rejection; the mark of outlawry from virtuous society; a label, voluntarily worn; a mark, branded by himself. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 4 To the critic of the schools, ever ready with the compendious label, he is the revolutionary destructive. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xi. 444 The only things which we preperceive are those which have been labelled for us, and the labels stamped into our mind. 1918 Times 19 June 6/4 The Independent Nationalist Press..has applied the label ‘defeatist’ to those Nationalists who voted for a moderate policy at the Irish Convention. 1945 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Sept. 11/2 They bear the label of Quislingism, but they also carry the cross of illegitimacy. 1965 P. White Let. 21 Mar. (1994) ix. 278 If this goes to London I am sure the intellectual papers will give it that popular label High Camp. 1988 M. Yorke Spirit of Place (2001) 11 The labels we use for art movements or groups of painters come from reviewers, art historians and, in some cases, from the artists themselves. 2017 Teen Vogue 19 No. 1. 112/1 Labels like ‘straight’ and ‘gay’..are starting to feel too narrow, overlooking an entire swath of sexuality. b. In a dictionary entry: a word or phrase used (often in italics) to specify the geographical area, register, etc., to which the term being defined belongs. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > parts of a dictionary entry > label label1911 1911 H. W. Fowler & F. G. Fowler Conc. Oxf. Dict. Pref. p. v We admit colloquial, facetious, slang, and vulgar expressions with freedom, merely attaching a cautionary label. 1962 A. W. Read in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 221 The average Englishman, accustomed to the labels Americanism, Scotticism, provincialism, etc. for designating locutions to be avoided, [etc.]. 1988 R. W. Burchfield in T. L. Burton & J. Burton Lexicogr. & Ling. Stud. 186 It has been customary for English lexicographers to make free use of regional labels like U.S., Brit. (or U.K.), Austral., N.Z., and so on. 2012 S. Ogilvie Words of World iii. 86 Labels such as offensive, derogatory, or pejorative are good ways for a lexicographer to indicate usage. 10. An adhesive postage stamp. Philately in later use.See also postage label n. at postage n.¹ Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp postage stamp1829 stamp1837 label1839 head1840 queen's head1840 postage label1852 adhesive1854 sticker1863 1839 Times 18 July 6/4 The postage might be defrayed by means of penny stamps, or labels, which being very small, could with ease be carried about, and stuck upon letters. 1840 Legal Guide 2 May 15/1 Sheet of 1d. labels, containing 240 Stamps. 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne III. xii. 234 Having put her penny label on it, she handed it..to the baker's wife, who was Her Majesty's postmistress at Greshamsbury. 1872 Philatelist Album Foreign Postage Stamps (ed. 3) Pref. There is a vast deal of information gained from the study of these labels, coming as they do from every part of the world. 1916 Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News 1 July 238/3 These new 20c and 50c labels were issued on February 17th, 1893. 1992 Gibbons Stamp Monthly Mar. 47/1 Queen Anne..appears on a sheetlet of five stamps issued by Dominica..which also includes a label depicting her husband, Prince George of Denmark. 2012 Stamp Mag. Nov. 54/2 Three philatelic packs comprising labels in simple envelopes were offered to collectors by the Philatelic Bureau in Edinburgh. 11. a. A circular piece of paper in the centre of a gramophone record, giving information about the song title, artist, etc.; (also) the record itself.record label, white label: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > section of record or recording company label1907 record label1926 society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > other parts jacket sleeve1599 album cover1839 label1907 jacket1935 record sleeve1951 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 1037/1 Not more than one old 7 in. record will be allowed for against each New Concert Red Label, or 12 in. Record. 1926 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 26 Nov. 4/7 (advt.) Look for the words ‘Orthographic Recording’ on the record label. It is your guarantee that you are getting the best artists, the best selections, the best quality record that money can buy. 1929 Melody Maker Apr. 369/1 A very fine example of this ‘Scat Singing’ is in ‘Candy Lips’ by Louis Armstrong's Washboard Beaters.., the label rightly describing it as ‘Scat’ chorus by Clarence Williams. 1939 S. W. Smith in F. Ramsey & C. E. Smith Jazzmen 289 There are those who will have nothing but the original label. 1973 Billboard 31 Mar. 3/4 The firm's stock of old labels will be used on catalog albums until the supply is exhausted. 2008 Wire Feb. 65/3 Additional information like songwriter and publishing credits and timings were meticulously detailed on the labels. b. A recording company, or a section of one, producing and releasing records under a distinctive name; = record label n. (b) at record n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > companies involved in specific business misbeliefa1450 safeguarda1450 squatc1450 smearc1476 bleach1486 poulterer1534 water company1710 land-company1805 publishing house1819 railway company1824 oil company1827 bus line1843 rails1848 accountancy1860 art house1882 poulter1884 automaker1899 energy company1910 record label1926 label1930 utility1930 re-roller1931 prefabricator1933 seven sisters1962 energy firm1970 chipmaker1971 fragmentizer1972 fixit1984 infomediary1989 multi-utility1994 1930 N.Y. Times 11 May ix. 8/1 This quartet is also to be had under the Victor label, in the Masterpiece without album series, by the Budapest String Quartet. 1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xviii. 216 The QRS Piano Roll Company was taking a flier in the record business and they invited Earl to record for their new label. 1957 G. Evans in D. Cerulli et al. Jazz Word (1962) 174 A friend of mine..was told by an a&r man at a relatively new major label that if he insisted on charging scale, he'd never be used there again. 1971 Daily Tel. 16 Aug. 6/3 Are there precedents for a primadonna appearing on three different labels virtually at the same time? 2013 T. Thorn Bedsit Disco Queen 339 Ben had carried on a kind of parallel life,..starting his own dance label, Buzzin' Fly, and its subsidiary alt-rock imprint, Strange Feeling. 12. Biology and Chemistry. A radioactive isotope, fluorescent dye, enzyme, etc., that can be incorporated in or attached to a molecule, cell, etc., to enable that molecule, cell, etc., to be identified experimentally (cf. label v. 5). Occasionally as a mass noun: material of this kind.affinity label, radiolabel, spin label, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > labelling label1935 radiolabelling1959 radio-tagging1959 pulse-labelling1961 1935 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 111 164 In order successfully to label a physiological substance, it is essential that the chemical and physical properties of the labeled substance be so similar to the unlabeled one that the animal organism will not be able to differentiate between them. The chemist, on the other hand, must be able to distinguish and to estimate them in small quantities and at high dilutions. A possibility for such a label is the use of an isotope. 1962 R. C. Nairn Fluorescent Protein Tracing i. 1 The choice of a tracing method with fluorescent rather than radioactive labels is governed by the type of information sought. 1989 Nature 14 Dec. 800/1 Morphometric quantification of data obtained under basal conditions, indicated that the majority of label was located in an intracellular compartment of the endothelial cells. 2007 Nature 5 July 4/1 These probes [sc. small molecules] bind specific amino-acid sequences and are smaller than the fluorescent proteins commonly used as labels, making them less likely to interfere with protein function or localization. 13. Computing. A character or set of characters used as the name of a statement in a program so as to facilitate reference to the statement elsewhere in the program. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > identifier > for program statements label1958 1958 Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery 1 14 A statement may be made identifiable by attaching to it a label L, which is an identifier I, or an integer G (with the meaning of identifier). The label precedes the statement labeled, and is separated from it by the separator colon (:). 1969 P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 272 The use of labels makes it easier to write programs, for mnemonic names may be used for labels..and the programmer is relieved of the detail of maintaining the layout of locations assigned in the computer memory. 1987 B. Leatham-Jones Elements Industr. Robotics vii. 183 Within a sequence program, branches may be made to a specific sequence line number or to a user-defined meaningful reference word called a label. 2005 C. Maxfield & A. Brown Definitive Guide how Computers do Math 393 The first thing we do when we enter the routine at label GETNUM is to pop the return address off the stack and store it away. 14. Computing. A set of data recorded on a tape, disk, etc., that describe the medium and its contents. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > storage > means of identifying label1961 1961 L. W. Hein Introd. Electronic Data Processing ix. 170 To prevent the incorrect use of tape files, internal labels should be incorporated into every tape. 1967 D. J. McLachlan & B. Molsom Data Processing xiii. 187 One item usually written in the label is known as a retention period, or purge date... This is to provide on the tape information from which a program can detect whether the data recorded on the tape is out of date and can be overwritten. 1980 C. S. French Computer Sci. xii. 65 Each tape file will generally have two records which serve organisational requirements... These two records are usually referred to as labels. One comes at the beginning of the file and the other at the end. 2016 J. A. Hall Information Technol. Auditing (ed. 4) vii. 294 Magnetic tapes and disks also have internal labels also called header labels that identify the physical storage device as well as the data files they contain. Compounds C1. General attributive, with the sense ‘of or relating to a recording company’ (see sense 11b), as label boss, label compilation, label head, etc. ΚΠ 1947 Billboard 15 Mar. 16/2 Other label reps..had indicated their interest in attending. 1962 New Pittsburgh Courier 4 Aug. 14 The talented trio is adopting a wait-and-see attitude toward their present label bosses, who have issued only one release since they inked the pact almost a year ago. 1982 Washington Post 20 June m10/2 Americans don't like their reggae too musically raw or spiritually militant, or so the label execs tell each other. 1994 Magnet May 7/1 We sent you some label compilations and CDs..hope you like them. 2013 Oxf. Amer. Winter 30/2 RCA..promoted the easy-listening Nashville Sound, a production style that label head Chet Atkins developed in the late '50s. C2. Objective (in sense 8a), as label-cutter, label-licking, label-paster, label printer, label printing, etc. ΚΠ 1836 N.-Y. Spectator 12 Sept. 1/2 The Xylographic engravings of Crump & Co...are extremely beautiful. The invention of this style is an era in the history of label printing. 1854 Ann. Reg. 1853 Patents 536/1 Twigg, label cutters. 1886 Amer. Bookmaker Apr. 132/1 At the present time the mill is making a grade of paper best adapted to the use of the label printer, for the reason that it will hold up the ink, so that the lustre is not lost. 1889 A. T. Pask Eyes of Thames 172 They have been book-binders, boot-closers, label-pasters, and such like. 1899 St. James's Gaz. 8 Sept. 14/2 Label-licking, which is practised largely in thread mills and aerated water factories. 1960 Current Industr. Rep.: Office, Computing, & Accounting Machines 1959 (U.S. Dept. Commerce) 3 Envelope opening and sealing machines; label gummers; and price marking machines. 1986 M. S. Favero et al. in B. M. Miller et al. Lab. Safety ix. 50/1 Accidents associated with mouth pipetting, label licking, splashes or splatterings. 1994 What PC? Oct. 145 (advt.) Other A.L. Group Services:..Mailsort; Label printing; Laser printing; Tape and disk recovery [etc.]. 1997 This Caring Profession July 37/1 Badgemaster..is offering the latest Brother Electronic label printer, completely free, with any order for 250 award winning custom-made name badges. C3. label cloth n. cloth used to make labels for books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > cloth book cloth1851 label cloth1869 mull1880 super1914 1869 Leeds Mercury 30 Oct. 2/5 (advt.) Fancy cards, label cloth, printing paper, [etc.]. 1891 Daily News 1 Dec. 2/3 The manufacture of book cloth, tracing cloth, label cloth, and grey cloth. a1996 H. Regnery Perfect Sowing (1999) i. 17 The same equipment used to manufacture shade cloth could also be used to produce such fabrics as book-binding cloth, tag cloth, label cloth, tracing cloth, sign cloth and much else. label ink n. ink used for marking labels. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun] > ink for marking labels label ink1844 1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 500 [It] forms a most excellent label-ink for the laboratory, as it is unaffected by acid vapours. 1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes vii. 269 Para reds, and Fire reds are quite ‘dirty’ in color, are semi-transparent and used mostly in poster and label inks. 2007 S. L. Belcher Pract. Guide Injection Blow Molding iii. 11 Past decorating such as paper labelling, silk screening, and hot stamping may alter the label ink used in labeling blow molded containers. † label-lolling adj. Obsolete rare hanging down like a label (sense 3). ΚΠ 1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe v. 237 These mushrumps (grounded vpon a lesse motiue) may not bee questioned, though nothing so euident as a blareing label-lolling tongue, which without the helpe of a Muffler, could not be so well concealed. labelmate n. [ < label n.¹ + mate n.², punningly after stable-mate n. at stable n.¹ Compounds 2] Music a fellow artist or musician recording for the same record label. ΚΠ 1967 Chicago Daily Defender 9 Aug. 4/1 Also headlining the big parade are: Redding's ‘label mate’ Carla Thomas, College Inn star Ike Cole, and the Clark Terry-Bobby Brookmeyer Quintet. 1989 HMV Christmas Mag. 13 (caption) Having lost the ‘jazz-funk’ tag that put paid to labelmate Shakatak, Level 42 have introduced a balance of pop and rock that makes them perfect for the car CD. 2003 A. Greenwald Nothing feels Good i. ii. 25 Despite touring with labelmates Nirvana and (the by-now famous) Green Day, the album sold poorly and the band broke up. label mould n. Architecture a moulding over a door, window, or other opening designed to deflect rain; = sense 6. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > drip-moulding head moulding1806 label1811 label moulding1811 dripstone1815 head mould1827 label mould1837 weather-moulding1841 hood-mould1849 drip-moulding1851 hood-moulding1867 1837 Archit. Mag. Dec. 572 The windows, finished with crocketed label moulds, will cost no more than a window with mullions, branching out into tracery. 1878 R. B. MacVittie Details Restoration Christ Church Cathedral Dublin 67 Over the large pointed arch is a label-mould. 2002 Ulster Jrnl. Archaeol. 61 131/1 The side windows of the two churches are almost identical, consisting as they do of three cusped lights under a flat arch with a label mould above. label moulding n. Architecture a moulding over a door, window, or other opening designed to deflect rain; = sense 6. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > drip-moulding head moulding1806 label1811 label moulding1811 dripstone1815 head mould1827 label mould1837 weather-moulding1841 hood-mould1849 drip-moulding1851 hood-moulding1867 1811 La Belle Assemblée Oct. 214/2 The label mouldings being supported by corunated heads. 1830 A. E. Bray Fitz of Fitz-ford I. iv. 79 A well-turned archway, ornamented with the oak-branch and the label-moulding. 1998 Archit. Hist. 41 271 A pointed window with a label moulding on the ground floor. † label-seal n. Obsolete rare a seal attached to a document by a narrow strip of fabric; see sense 3c. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] > seal > other seals bull1340 printerc1425 counter-seal1611 label-seal1679 gum-seal1826 1679 Ld. Willoughby in R. Mansell Exact & True Narr. Late Popish Intrigue (1680) 21 A Commission, with thirteen Label-seals, and as many Names thereto. label stop n. Architecture a boss or corbel supporting the end of a label (sense 6). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > corbel corbetc1384 corbel-stone1425 corbelc1440 corbel-table1448 shouldering piece1585 corbe1596 souse1838 corbel-tabling1848 corbel-piece1850 label stop1862 1862 Builder 8 Mar. 172/1 Their wall plane being diapered and otherwise enriched with carved capitals, label stops, and patera. 1894 C. G. Harper Marches of Wales 132 A carefully rendered little head..carved on the label-stop of the canopy. 2011 Jrnl. Galway Archaeol. & Hist. Soc. 63 66/1 Disembodied heads were commonly employed in Irish Gothic buildings. They often occur singly, perhaps as a label stop on a window. Derivatives ˈlabelless adj. without a label or labels. ΚΠ 1893 Science 7 Apr. 195/1 An entirely incorrect theory is embedded, labelless, in a mass of facts. 1937 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 8 Apr. 6/4 Labelless bottles and jars are..given to the children. 1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse xi. 461 We celebrated the number five with a tuck of something from a small, labelless tin that we could identify only as deviled something. 2000 Witness 14 163 Camouflage uniforms, labelless, splotched in three dull greens, baggy, are passed around the plane, claimed by approximate size. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † labeln.² Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin labellum. Etymology: < post-classical Latin labellum labellum n. Compare later labellum n. N.E.D. (1901) gives the pronunciation as (lēⁱ·bĕl) /ˈleɪbəl/. Botany. Obsolete. A lip or lip-like petal of the corolla of a flower; spec. = labellum n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leaflet lacinia1668 label1672 pinna1703 label1707 pinnula1707 ala1712 lobe1731 pinnule1751 lobe-leaf1758 leafit1761 little leaf1775 wing1776 foliole1785 leaflet1811 lobelet1850 auricle1861 lobule1880 pinnulet1881 pointrel1881 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > lip label1707 palate1760 labium1764 lip1776 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 162 The Flower..is made like the Flowers of the Aristolochia's, of a yellowish colour, the Label being covered with a purple Farina. 1817 Bot. Reg. 3 202 Label half as long again as these, broader than long, pointing forwards, paler along the middle. 1913 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 51 345 In H[elleborine] latifolia the label is always broader than long, and terminates in a recurved apiculus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2019). labelv. Brit. /ˈleɪbl/, U.S. /ˈleɪbəl/ Inflections: Present participle labelling, (chiefly U.S.) labeling; past tense and past participle labelled, (chiefly U.S.) labeled; Forms: see label n.¹; also 1800s lable; U.S. regional 1800s laybill, 1900s laybell. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: label n.¹ Etymology: < label n.¹ Compare earlier labelled adj. †1. transitive. Astronomy. To connect (a point or part on an astrolabe) to another point or part by means of a label (label n.¹ 1). Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1596 J. Blagrave Astrolabium Vranicum iii. sig. B4^v To labell the Hower to the Sunne or Starres, or them to the hower. ?1597 J. Blagrave Apol. & Addition to Vranicall Astrolabe sig. B The Almicantifer labelled to the East line of the Zenitfer. †2. transitive. To add as a supplementary note or codicil. See label n.¹ 7. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 235 I will giue out diuers scedules of my beautie. It shalbe Inuentoried and euery particle and vtensile labell'd to my will: As, Item two lippes indifferent redde [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1659 Last Will & Test. I. Bradshaw 8 I have desired the Credentials of Secretary Thurloe, together with a true Copy of Somners Plot, to be labelled hereunto. 3. transitive. To attach a label to (an object); to mark with a label. Also with complement specifying the content of the label. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > label, tag, or ticket [verb (transitive)] ticket1611 label1731 betag1763 relabel1834 mislabel1835 tablet1864 tag1883 sticker1912 flag1934 1731 M. Bacon Compl. Arbitrator ix. §ii. 246 A. shall make an Obligation which shall be labelled with Wax, and shall bring it to B. 1750 J. Rutty Particular Acct. Mrs. Stephens's Method 21 Into each I put a Fragment of an equal Weight of the Stone of a middle Hardness, No. 7. labelling each respectively. 1786 F. Burney Diary 2 Aug. (1842) III. 43 The Queen..employed the Princess Royal to label them [sc. books]. c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 313/2 This may be labled ‘oxygen mixture’. 1885 Law Times 78 385/2 The due diligence of the consignors in labelling and delivering the goods to the carriers. 1893 G. E. Matheson About Holland 22 A carriage labelled Niet rooken. 1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie v. 95 ‘I have just labelled a few little things of my own..’ she said, putting a sticky one firmly on to the giant radiogram. 1989 A. Stevenson Bitter Fame iii. 53 Sylvia painstakingly labeled her bottle lest Nancy accidentally use it instead of her own. 2006 C. Murray Murder in Samarkand iii. 35 A man from Alitalia..started to label the cases, swearing volubly in the process. 4. transitive. To apply a classifying word or phrase to (a person or thing); to categorize (a person or thing) using a particular word or phrase (sometimes with the implication that such categorization is inaccurate, simplistic, or restrictive). Chiefly with as or complement specifying the classifying word or phrase. Cf. label n.¹ 9. ΚΠ 1758 Enq. into Plan & Pretensions Mr. Sheridan 32 I would..have the Boys labelled according to their Destination, whether mercantile, or military, or juridical, or physical, or clerical, or senatorial, or rustical, or civil, or for sea, or for land. 1850 F. W. Robertson Addr. to Working Man's Inst. 7 This foolish and wicked system of labelling men with names. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire v. 271 We cannot label Voltaire either spiritualist or materialist. 1881 M. Arnold Byron in Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 376/1 It would be most unjust to label Byron..as a rhetorician only. 1928 Geogr. Jrnl. 71 199 Mr. Chatterton continually commits the fault of over-lauding his hero, while labelling all Smith's associates as cowards, drones, and rabble of the worst type. 1976 S. W. Mintz Birth Afr.-American Culture vi. 66 They..modeled their new social ties upon those of kinship, often borrowing kin terms..to label their relationships with their contemporaries and those older than themselves. 1991 Wilson Q. Spring 106/1 Kundera's critics..label him brilliant but frivolous. 2001 K. Fearon & A. Verlaque Lurgan Champagne & Other Tales 82 They didn't want to be in a group for physically disabled people just for the sake of it because they didn't want to be labelled. 2005 Guardian 5 May 13/8 A trapping and extermination programme for the American red signal crayfish is starting in East Anglia to see if the creature, labelled a ‘vicious invader’, can be controlled. 5. transitive. Biology and Chemistry. To make (a molecule, cell, etc.) identifiable by replacing an atom with one of a radioactive isotope, or by attaching a fluorescent dye, enzyme, or other molecule, so that its movement, distribution, or transformation can be followed experimentally. Cf. label n.¹ 12. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [verb (transitive)] > labelling label1935 tag1939 pulse-label1961 1935 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 111 164 In order successfully to label a physiological substance, it is essential that the chemical and physical properties of the labeled substance be so similar to the unlabeled one that the animal organism will not be able to differentiate between them. 1949 Ann. Rep. Progr. Chem. 45 251 Feeding CH₃·¹³CO₂H [to rats] labels the 2 and the 8 carbon atoms of uric acid, but not the 4 carbon atom. 1962 R. C. Nairn Fluorescent Protein Tracing i. 1 Proteins, including serum antibodies, can be labelled by chemical combination with fluorescent dyes, without material effect on the biological or immunological properties of the proteins. 1971 J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man v. 82 These isotopes can be introduced into the body and used to ‘label’ a particular compound and discover for how long it remains in the tissues. 2004 Science 25 June 1936/1 The most common CD4 test relies on flow cytometry, a technology that labels CD4 cells with fluorescent antibodies, shines a laser on the fluid, and counts the number of cells that light up. 2016 N. Morvillo & M. Schmidt MCAT Biol. Bk. (ed. 7) ii. 17 The bacteria were grown for a period of time that was sufficient to label all molecules that could be labeled. 6. transitive. To add words to (a picture, diagram, etc.) in order to indicate component parts or elements. ΚΠ 1950 J. H. Sansam Health Guide for Adolescents (M.Sc. thesis, Univ. of Southern Calif.) vii. 45 Prepare and label a diagram of the human digestive organs and tell the action that takes place in each. 1961 A. F. Rude Syllabus for High School Physiol. (M.Sc. thesis, Univ. of Southern Calif.) ii. i. 44 Have the students diagram and label a cross section of a long bone. 1996 M. F. Kohl & K. Solga Discovering Great Artists 19 Find out the names of the parts and label the drawing with neatly lettered words. 2015 V. C. Scanlon & T. Sanders Essent. Anat. & Physiol. (ed. 7) Pref. p. vii/2 When the students have labeled the picture and answered the questions, the whole then becomes an integral part of the chapter. Derivatives ˈlabeller n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > person who labeller1830 1830 Imperial Mag. Aug. 707/1 The great abyss might be shadowed out by this mass of confused matter in the labeller's mind. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 26 Mar. 2/1 Bottle fillers, washers, and labellers. 1995 Guardian 22 Dec. ii. 20/2 Fleck is an emotional deadleg, a compulsive labeller and filer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1392n.²1707v.1596
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