usage label
noun
(In lexicography) a label denoting the register, subject area, or other specific application of a word or phrase.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in PMLA.
- ligulate
- ligule
- Liguria
- Ligurian
- Ligurian Sea
- ligustrum
- likable
- like
- -like
- like a bat out of hell
- like a bear with a sore head
- likeability
- likeable
- likeableness
- like a blue-arsed fly
- likeably
- like a bride's nightie
- like a bull at a gate
- like a bull in a china shop
- like a cat on a hot tin roof (also on hot bricks)
- like a deer (or rabbit) in the headlights
- like a demon
- like a dog with two tails
- like a dose of salts
- like a dream